Rätedemokratie oder das Ende der Politik

Abstract

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,