"Transformation of Democracy." A Contribution to a Socio-Critical Analysis of Politics

This article deals with Wolfgang Kraushaar's text on Agnoli's critique of parliamentary democracy in issue 1/2007 of this journal. It is argued here that Kraushaar's intention was to disqualify radical-democratic parliamentary critique by raising suspicion of its association with fasc...

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Published in:Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen 2007-01, Vol.38 (4), p.828-841
Main Authors: Narr, Wolf-Dieter, Stoss, Richard
Format: Article
Language:ger
Subjects:
Democracy
Democratization
Fascism
Political Philosophy
Radicalism
Representative Democracy
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Summary:This article deals with Wolfgang Kraushaar's text on Agnoli's critique of parliamentary democracy in issue 1/2007 of this journal. It is argued here that Kraushaar's intention was to disqualify radical-democratic parliamentary critique by raising suspicion of its association with fascist forerunners. Besides the fact that Kraushaar's claims about Agnoli are wrong (Agnoli's "Transformation of Democracy" was not based on forerunners of fascist theory, & he never tried to conceal his own fascist past), he has misunderstood the theoretical contribution of the "Transformation." Complementing the reply by Uwe Thaysen & Jurgen W. Falter in issue 2/2007 of the ZParl, the authors describe how & why the political science community in Berlin developed its Marxist-oriented critical social science approach in the second half of the 1960s. The "Transformation of Democracy" was a cornerstone of this radical-democratic & political-economic approach, which in light of the current state of representative democracy, is in need of being revived & extended. Adapted from the source document.
ISSN:0340-1758