Weimar democracy fell because its constitution aided reactionaries

Evidence

All the reactionary parties concentrated their efforts on a single goal: the destruction of parliamentary democracy as the constitutional platform for the emancipation of the workers. And they succeeded because the framework and practice of the constitution made it easy for them, and because the Social Democratic Party and the trade unions, the only defenders of the Weimar system, had been weakened. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 929

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to the earlier chapter claim about the Nazi coalition leveraging 51.8 percent into dictatorship, and to Neumann’s legalist reformism prefigure. — connects to: Weimar’s constitution functioned as a trap for the working class by masking bourgeois advantages — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 955; Ordoliberals blamed mass society and proletarianization for the Weimar Republic’s collapse — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 508; Kirchheimer saw the Weimar constitution as a trap for workers — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 955 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Kirchheimer saw the Weimar constitution as a trap for workers #corroborates (0.88) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 955
• Weimar’s constitution functioned as a trap for the working class by masking bourgeois advantages #corroborates (0.86) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 955
• Ordoliberals blamed mass society and proletarianization for the Weimar Republic’s collapse #qualifies (0.72) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 508