German courts converted Weimar’s socialist constitutional clauses into capitalist protections

Evidence

In his Limits of Expropriation(1930), Kirchheimer showed brilliantly how the basic rights guaranteed under the Weimar constitution had been undermined bit by bit by legal judgements and legal theory, and how the old bourgeois elements in the constitution were pushing the other elements aside. The principle of equality and the article on expropriation in the Weimar constitution, which many socialists had hoped to use to revolutionize the bourgeois state legally, had been made into a bulwark of private capitalism by the German Supreme Court. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 253

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