Round table discussion about privatisation, the possibilities of workers' ownership. The participants of the discussion are the manager who wants to have an increasing scope of activities, the banking expert who defends monetary interference and an apostle of whe workers' ownership. The discussion is at the same time the presentation of three different concepts of socialism: one, which wants to refine capitalisation with welfare mechanisms preventing impoverishment, two, which accepts the turn towards capitalism as something bad, which however, is a necessary precondition of true socialism and three, which wants to present elements of post-capitalist economy and social organisation with workers'ownership.
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Without alternatives. Introduction: Why the „Russian model” is important?
The October Revolution as socio-cultural phenomenon
The author enumerates a few of the causes as a result of which the October Revolution took place the way it did. He attributes a special role to the euphoria in Europe at the beginning of the century over industrialisation, the lack of the middle class, the utopian-egalitarian influence of mass consciousness and the differences between the goals of the masses of people and the political parties, etc.
Adaptation of the October Revolution and the Soviet Union in the counter-revolutionary Hungary
The author gives a picture of the image of the Soviet Union held by groups of various political trends in Hungary during the Horthy era, from the communists to the various bourgeois ideologies and the Hungarian fascists. His main conclusion is that it is not the scale at which the Soviet Union was rejected but rather its nature what divided the various forces. He stresses that for a long time to come, not the liberalism rejecting dictatorial rule is the main opposition of the forces of socialism: they are on the same side in their opposition to the conservative, nationalistic dictatorships.
István Mészáros: The power of ideology
Review of the new book by the editor-in-chief of the former Eszmélet, a student of Lukács living in Britain which gives the apology criticism of the bourgeois system and calls attention to the dangers of the influence of the military-industrial complex.