@article{Lessenich_2004, place={Berlin, DE}, title={Zur Lage der bürgerlichen Demokratie in Deutschland}, volume={34}, url={https://prokla.de/index.php/PROKLA/article/view/647}, DOI={10.32387/prokla.v34i134.647}, abstractNote={<p>Contemporary welfare states are confronted with what may be called a new "social question": How should and can welfare losses be distributed among the population of an affiuent society? The article claims that social policy-makers in Germany try to solve this problem by inciting and reproducing the middle classes’ envy of all those who are said to undeservedly profit from collective solidarity. In a sense, the widespread fear of "too much" democracy and individualism, identified by Max Weber almost a century ago, is being revived under new circumstances. (And nobody - Max Weber not being with us anymore - seems to care.)</p>}, number={134}, journal={PROKLA. Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft}, author={Lessenich, Stephan}, year={2004}, month={März}, pages={157–163} }