West Germany’s 1972 radical ban spread into uncontrolled exclusion practices.

Evidence

At the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s, Critical Theory more or less ceased to serve as a guide for the protest movements. Some groups turned to orthodox forms of Marxism-Leninism-Trotskyism-Stalinism-Maoism, others turned away from theory altogether. Otherwise, a period of reformism seemed to have started. The younger representatives of Critical Theory scattered in all directions, and continued to exercise an influence from more established positions. But as early as 1972 the first signs of the end of the Federal Republic’s spring were already evident. At the beginning of 1972 the Social Democratic Chancellor, Willy Brandt, together with the prime ministers of the Federal German states, passed a ban on radical teachers and civil servants. The ban was intended to prevent extremist' representatives of a critical generation of students from engaging in a long march through the institutions’, but it soon led to practices of screening and exclusion from Civil Service professions that went out of control. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2753

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Frankfurt School’s own theory of authoritarian state and repressive apparatus — the state responding to radical critique with institutional exclusion. — connects to: Anti-terror measures in West Germany extended to suppress legal opposition — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2755; Homogeneous closed communities preceded and intensified political radicalization into terrorism in West Germany. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4108; The Allied ban on political activity eased Nazi and conservative continuity in German institutions — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1640 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Homogeneous closed communities preceded and intensified political radicalization into terrorism in West Germany. #expands (0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4108
• Requiring members to prove non-Jewish descent manufactured felt inclusion in Nazi Germany #complicates (0.72) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 870
• The Allied ban on political activity eased Nazi and conservative continuity in German institutions #complicates (0.70) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1640