„It is not the realisation that justice in the world is imperfect – perfect justice is something few of us expect – that drives us to action, but the fact that there are injustices in our environment that can be addressed and that we want to end.“

(Amartya Sen, The Idea of Justice)

Which ingredients does the “magic potion” countervailing power consist of? 

We all know the stories of Asterix and Obelix, who, with a mixture of belligerence, self-confidence, shrewdness, cunning and not to forget the dosed use of their magic potion, defy the superiority of the Romans again and again and stand up to them in their legendary Gallic village. There is also a superiority in the conflict of interests between capital and labour. It is an asymmetrical, unequal struggle for participation and fair distribution under capitalist conditions. This makes it all the more important to know exactly what the ingredients are and to be able to analyse them, from which we can brew our „magic potion“ „countervailing power“.