Open AccessRätedemokratie oder das Ende der Politik
Author(s) -
Alex Demirović
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
prokla
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2700-0311
pISSN - 0342-8176
DOI - 10.32387/prokla.v39i155.429
Subject(s) - democracy , german , politics , political science , apathy , economic history , philosophy , sociology , political economy , law , economics , psychology , linguistics , cognition , neuroscience
Similar to the capitalist economy liberal democracy is subjected cyclical crises, In political theory and in the debate of the Left there is a search for alternatives to depolitisation, passiveness or apathy, Criticizing Hannah Arendts republicanism, it is proposed to appropriate arguments of Marx' analysis of the Paris Commune and of the debates during the German revolution in 1918/19, Concepts of workers council democracy are discussed, and it is argued that this tradition had developed important insights in the problems of socialist transformation,