The SPD expelled the SDS to destroy its internal critical public sphere.

Evidence

What the party executive was therefore expelling was, precisely, a critical public sphere within the organization, initiated by left-wing intellectuals. The party’s grass roots tolerated the executive’s high-handedness in the matter. The expulsion of the SDS stood. Intellectuals were the only ones to criticize the decision. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2381

Categorization

• XREF: This is a concrete instance of the very bureaucratic supervision the Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere analyzed: the party eliminating its internal critical public. — connects to: The SPD abandoned the anti-atomic campaign for electoral calculation — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2347; The SPD expelled its own critical left-wing public sphere when it banned the SDS — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2381; The SPD expelled the SDS over atomic weapons, Nazi-lawyer exposures, and Godesberg criticism. — 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 #corroborates (1.00) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2381
• The SPD expelled the SDS over atomic weapons, Nazi-lawyer exposures, and Godesberg criticism. #qualifies (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2381
• Habermas’s left-wing fascism charge alienated him from the SDS #expands (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2618