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Liberale Staatskritik in der Krise

(Neo-)Liberal State Theory in Crisis
[journal article]

Nullmeier, Frank

Abstract

Liberale Staatskritik hat in Zeiten der Finanzmarkt- und Schuldenkrise keine Konjunktur. Denn das Argument, man müsse die Staatsintervention einschränken, für weniger Regulation sorgen und mehr Eigenverantwortung einfordern, stößt auf das Gegenargument, dass doch genau diese Politik die Krise erzeug... view more

Liberale Staatskritik hat in Zeiten der Finanzmarkt- und Schuldenkrise keine Konjunktur. Denn das Argument, man müsse die Staatsintervention einschränken, für weniger Regulation sorgen und mehr Eigenverantwortung einfordern, stößt auf das Gegenargument, dass doch genau diese Politik die Krise erzeugt habe. Während sich die (neo-)liberale Publizistik mehrheitlich weiter in Sozialstaatskritik übt, hat der Philosoph Peter Sloterdijk mit seinem Angriff auf den Steuerstaat der Debatte eine Wendung gegeben. Statt - nochmals - nachzuweisen, dass die Position Sloterdijks falsch und illusionär ist, will dieser Artikel zweierlei leisten: Zum einen nimmt er eine ideengeschichtliche Einordnung der Sloterdijkschen Konzeption vor als eines Versuchs, Folgeprobleme des Neoliberalismus durch den Übergang zu offenem Antiegalitarismus anzugehen. Zum anderen kritisiert er die strikte Alternative von Zwang und Freiwilligkeit, die Sloterdijk zur Grundlage seiner Kritik des Steuerstaates einsetzt. Derartige Konstruktionen verweisen auch auf einen bemerkenswerten Mangel im herrschenden Demokratieverständnis und auf die Herausforderung, Steuern als wesentliches Element eines demokratischen politischen Zusammenhangs neu zu begründen.... view less


Neoliberal Criticism of state power has been in trouble since 2008. The international financial crisis and the European public debt crisis have undermined arguments for free and deregulated markets, for more competition, privatization and individual responsibility. These arguments are faced with the... view more

Neoliberal Criticism of state power has been in trouble since 2008. The international financial crisis and the European public debt crisis have undermined arguments for free and deregulated markets, for more competition, privatization and individual responsibility. These arguments are faced with the quite plausible objection that it was exactly the latter factors that were crucial for the outbreak of the economic crisis. Nevertheless, the majority of German neoliberal intellectuals continue to publish old-fashioned criticism of the welfare state and state regulation of markets. Peter Sloterdijk's strong attack on the tax state marks a watershed in the German debate. This article does not constitute a further attempt to demonstrate the inadequacy of Sloterdijk's position. Instead, it aims at a classifying Sloterdijk’s work in the context of the history of neoliberal thinking. He attempts to solve problems of classical neoliberal thinking by proposing a transition to an overt anti-egalitarianism. The second part of the article takes issue with the reasons Sloterdijk sets out in his publicly influential criticism of the tax state. His criticism is based on the opposition between coercion and voluntariness. In order to refute his arguments - so the main thesis of the article - a different categorical scheme beyond the opposition between coercion and voluntariness is needed, which paves the way for a more favourable and democratic understanding of the tax state.... view less

Keywords
economic liberalism; neoliberalism; theory of the state; social welfare state; social justice; freedom; egalitarianism; tax policy; theory of democracy

Classification
Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Political Science

Free Keywords
Steuerstaat; Antiegalitarismus; tax state; anti-egalitarianism

Document language
German

Publication Year
2012

Page/Pages
p. 7-24

Journal
der moderne staat - dms: Zeitschrift für Public Policy, Recht und Management, 5 (2012) 1

ISSN
2196-1395

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0


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