Comment on Michael Schefczyk: In search of a just political economy: Why we should go beyond Rawls's POD and Schefczyk's RUWS

This commentary challenges Michael Schefczyk's proposal for a realistically Utopian welfare state (RIJWS). As it stands, RIJWS says too little about the concrete measures it will offer to avoid political domination and harmful inequalities. More¬over, RIJWS follows Rawlsian Property-Owning Democracy (POD) by being silent on crucial issues such as banking regulation, the governance of investments and the issue of actual control over capital. Ultimately, it therefore seems that RIJWS does not present an attractive alternative to POD since it suffers from very similar problems and shortcomings as POD.