奥托.鲍威尔是奥地利马克思主义的理论家,其社会主义思想主要包括阶级力量均势论、职能民主论、社会力量因素论、防御性暴力论和整体社会主义。总的来看,鲍威尔的思想体系属于改良主义,他的大部分结论不是在发展、超越马克思主义,而是背离了它。鲍威尔的思想对当代民主社会主义产生了巨大影响。 Otto Powell is the Austrian Marxist theorist, whose socialist ideas mainly include the class power balance theory, functional democracy, the theory of social forces, the theory of defensive violence and the overall socialism. On the whole, Powell’s ideology belongs to reformism. Most of his conclusions are not development, beyond Marxism, but deviate from it. Powell’s thought had a huge impact on contemporary democratic socialism.