In our new series the author review a series of pieces of thought from the 19th century, especially from Marxism juxtaposing them with the current situation.
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A few ingenious methods to control democracy or what to do with the mass media
A Marxist century, an American century: the development and transformation of the world’s working class movement
Arrighi juxtaposes the practice of the communist parties with the basically contrary principles laid down in the Communist Manifesto. He outlines the three periods of the history of the working class movement; the process when in the first stage, it was still adjusted to the Marxist ideas and then the increasing separation from them. He gives a detailed analysis of the standpoints of the trends that can be linked with Bernstein and Lenin and the failure of the Kautsky-standpoint in between the two. One of the key theses of Arrighi is that the strength and revolutions of the proletariat are in reverse correlation with one another. He offers new points of view for the analysis of the restructuring of the working class on a world scale. He registers the increase in the role of the periphery and the intellectual producers as the main trend. Arrighi states that for the time being, the left has failed to adjust appropriately to the new trends and its choice was bad from the very beginning when it undertook to represent those stricken by poverty.
No. 17 | (Spring 1993)
This issue of Eszmélet is coping with the problem of leftism: in order to present the topic from several angles, we also publish writings that according to our intention will provoke reactions and debate. In addition, we aim at also publishing articles that represent such types of leftism (anarchism, feminism and Trotskyism) that were less known in Hungary over the past decades.
Table of contents
- Robert Daniels : Trotsky, Stalin and the development of Soviet communism
- Fekete Gyula : Freedom and Property. On the isue of political right and left
- Krausz Tamás : Capitalsm-anticapitalism-foreign capital – Notes to a new-old political amalgam
- Szigeti Péter : On the theoretical dead ends of the left
- Andrea Komlosy, Susan Zimmermann : Money or life? Notes to the debate on practical womens movement
- Susan Zimmermann : The birth and death of the West European type welfare state
- Giovanni Arrighi : A Marxist century, an American century: the development and transformation of the world’s working class movement
- Johan Galtung : On the causes and ending of terrorism
- Lakatos László, Ernest Mandel : Changes of Europe – with the left eye
- Maróthy János : The always new left wing
- Colin Ward : Anarchy in action (extracts)
- For the unity on the left – Announcement of the Left Altrnative Association
- Henri Lefebvre : Civil society and civic rights
- Michael Löwy : Romantic Marxism – Henri Lefebvre
- Rémi Hess : Selected bibliography of henri Lefebvre
- Tőkei Ferenc : Messages from the 19th century – Marx on economic development and on socialist revolutions
- A few ingenious methods to control democracy or what to do with the mass media
On the causes and ending of terrorism
The well-known Norwegian political scientist calls attention to the fact that when discussing terrorism, one must not disregard the phenomenon of state terrorism. He analyses the possible power relations between the states and citizens and the strategies of action following from them. Progress has brought with it the escalation of violence. Galtung offers the Ghandi principle of no-violence to be the weapon of the "weak" to stop the vicious circle of violence.