ABSTRACT
Critical rationalism that its founder describes as “the minimum concession to irrationalism” (p. 232) requires that no proposition should be held immune from criticism, not even the proposition that all genuine propositions are open to criticisms. One can therefore scarcely do less, in homage to Sir Karl Popper, than to expose his propositions to the acid of the very method of which he is the champion. These reflexions are meant to be a critical commentary, of Popperian inspiration, on the political philosophy which, though not properly his (for Popper has never set out to develop a political philosophy of his own), nonetheless accords closely with his obiter dicta on the social predicament and his critique of some Hegelian and Marxian positions.
