Marxismus als Sozialwissenschaft: Rechts- und Staatsverständnisse im Austromarxismus

In: Staatsverständnisse Band 115

In: Nomos eLibrary

In: Politikwissenschaft

Abstract

Austro-Marxism is the collective name for a group of Austrian Marxists, who successfully endeavoured to test traditional Marxist theory, even though it was incomplete and ambiguous in some respects, in an array of new fields in both Austria and beyond. They achieved this feat by constantly analysing developments in philosophy and the social sciences, economics, legal theory and psychology. The group's leading figures — Max Adler, Otto Bauer, Karl Renner, Rudolf Hilferding and Gustav Eckstein — all made highly significant and innovative contribu-tions to the theory of the state and, by extension, political theory which can greatly shape the current debate on the crisis, or rather the future, faced by capitalist democracies and welfare states. These authors stand out because they sought to dismantle the traditional dichotomies of 'reform' and 'revolution' and 'evolution' and 'revolution'.With contributions byAndreas Fisahn, Armin Puller, Eveline List, Folke große Deters, Gerhard Botz, Günther Sandner, Kolja Möller, Lutz Musner, Richard Saage, Ridvan Ciftci, Thilo Scholle, Uli Schöler.