ABSTRACT
Herbert Marcuse knows that the Marxian analysis can no longer be applied as it stands to advanced capitalist society, with which Max Weber was already confronted. But he wants to show through the example of Weber that the evolution of modern society in the framework of state-regulated capitalism cannot be conceptualized if liberal capitalism has not been analysed adequately. Rather, public discussion could render problematic the framework within which the tasks of government action present themselves as technical ones. The model according to which the planned reconstruction of society is to proceed is taken from systems analysis. Jurgen Habermas carried out the critique of bourgeois ideology in the form of political economy. With the deflection of dangers to the system in state-regulated capitalism, the political system has incorporated an interest, which transcends latent class boundaries, in preserving the compensatory distribution facade.
