Marx und die politische Philosophie der Gegenwart

Abstract

Is Marx a „real” political thinker? Political philosophers often raise the objection that the understanding of law and politics as superstructure is incompatible with serious political reflection. The objection doesn’t note the common theoretical foundations of liberalism and Marxism. The theory of Marx nonetheless turns out to be an analytical tool which allows a better understanding of liberalism’s contradictions, as comparisons with Kant, Tocqueville, Rawls and Habermas may clarify.