Weimar’s crisis radicalized reformist lawyers into defending the constitution

Evidence

Borne up by their trust in a strong political and social movement, and spurred on by the crisis in the Weimar Republic, which was becoming more and more obvious, these young lawyers threw the whole of their expertise into bringing the compromise between bourgeois and socialist positions contained in the Weimar constitution to bear against the restriction of socialist elements which was taking place. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 246

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Weimar democracy fell because its constitution aided reactionaries — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 929; Young SPD lawyers fought to enforce the Weimar constitution’s bourgeois-socialist compromise. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 924; Neumann’s Marxist legal analysis coexisted with reformist political hopes — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 248 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Weimar democracy fell because its constitution aided reactionaries — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 929; Young SPD lawyers fought to enforce the Weimar constitution’s bourgeois-socialist compromise. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 924; Neumann’s Marxist legal analysis coexisted with reformist political hopes — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 248 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Weimar democracy fell because its constitution aided reactionaries #complicates (0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 929
• Nazism destroyed a generation of social-democratic constitutional thought #complicates (0.74) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2372