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In this article Jurgen Habermas analysis the functioning of the welfare state and the exhaustion of utopian ideals. He suggests why the welfare state does not work according to its plans of emancipating society. With all these ways in attempting to model a better future we look towards ideas of human labour through the welfare state. The welfare state has flawed in an attempt to utilise utopian ideals for emancipation. ... Since new ideals are always emerging in modernity, we have to find some sort of state to base normality from it. ... Habermas says that today ˇ§utopian energies have been used up, as if they have retreated from historical thought. ... This led people who were originally in support of the welfare state projects to increase awareness of its limitations and restrictions. ...
The welfare state was ideally used to ˇ§assume the burden of the fundamental risks of wage labour. ... He raised points that questions the welfare state system. Will the state have enough resources to keep this system under control? ... The flaws of the welfare state is that the more successfully it runs, the more clearly it runs into opposing thoughts of private investors. ...
The welfare state never integrated emancipation in utopianism. ... The welfare state is not working and has not achieved what it intended to do.
Approximate Word count = 1015
Approximate Pages = 4.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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