Research talk:5c/IFCI/HabermasServedBourgeoisState

Jürgen Habermas: The philosopher who chose the state

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Z–46,02 (pronounced 46,02. (Z))⧼hue-philosophy-/en⧽ (pronounced ⧼hue-philosophy-tts-/en⧽)  /  (4602)ICFI reporters (Q46,02)1:-1:-1

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Z–41,04 (pronounced 41,04. (Z))[IV] [Z] (pronounced (Fourth) (Z):) IV  /  (4104)Trotskyism (top-level category)()1:-1:-1

critical theory (📥 (pronounced proposed) / ES)1:-1:-1

date

2026-04-01

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618. Habermas was basically a Menshevik / Jürgen Habermas used principles of Marxism to build critical-theory and argue for the legitimacy of the overall German republic as a Liberal republic or ethnically-neutral secular state constructed as a "nation of ideas"; [2] ideologically, he was basically an ally of classical Menshevism in that he abused the principles of Marxism to argue for reconstructing or reforming Liberal-republicanism, not to aid the construction of an "East Germany"