The SPD expelled the SDS over atomic weapons, Nazi-lawyer exposures, and Godesberg criticism.
Evidence
Since the left-wing intellectuals who had come to dominate the SDS had certainly been willing to reach an understanding with the party executive, and had, for example, declared that they were opposed to blind anticommunism but also supported maintaining a critical distance towards communism in Germany, the only explanation for the behaviour of the SPD party executive was that it was irritated about various other matters. Among these were: the SDS’s uncompromising insistence on continuing extra-parliamentary action against the acquiring of atomic weapons for the Bundeswehr (the West German armed forces); actions such as an exhibition in which documentation relating to Nazi lawyers who had taken up official positions again in the Federal Republic was presentedthis was attacked both by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, which stereotyped it as a communist-inspired action, and by the SPD party executive, which distanced itself from it in a press release; and a reprint in the SDS paper Standpunkt of a critique by Abendroth of the draft of the Godesberg Programme. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2381
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the earlier claim (ch82) that the SPD abandoned the anti-atomic campaign for electoral calculation — here that abandonment becomes exclusionary. — connects to: The SPD abandoned the anti-atomic campaign for electoral calculation — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2347; The SPD expelled the SDS to destroy its internal critical public sphere. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2381; The SPD expelled its own critical left-wing public sphere when it banned the SDS — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2381 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- The SPD expelled its own critical left-wing public sphere when it banned the SDS
#expands(0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2381 - Adorno shelved his Godesberg critique fearing it would aid democracy’s enemies
#expands(0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2523 - The SPD’s 1959 Godesberg de-Marxification triggered the founding of competing student leagues.
#qualifies(0.70) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2380