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I come to criticise Lukacs, not to praise him. A contribution at the presentation of the book: Lukacs Gybrgy es a szocialista alternativa [Gybrgy Lukacs and the Socialist Alternative] Budapest, Eszmelet Alapitvany -L’Harmattan, 2010

Lukács as his disciples the so-called Budapest School provided no economic philosophy foundations in his criticism of bureaucratic socialism. The democratic socialism presented by them remained an ideological construction that is why it could not compete with the capital that was gaining force.

Ecological Civilisation

It is essential for our survival as a species that we reverse the degradation of the earth's life support systems. Agriculture and industry organised by principles of capital accumulation are inherently destroying their environment thus it is necessary contradicts the ecological knowledge gathered since the 19th century. Thus a new and ecological civilisation must be non-capitalistic. Its main pillars will include the self-organisation of living and working communities, biodiversity, and in several cases self-sufficiency that are matched with global cultural interchange and cooperation.

„Cool” Capitalism. The Great Refusal

The critique of canonised literature is well known but canonised painting is watched with less sharp critique of its system. The author attempts this as he fits bohe-mianism in the bourgeois culture with a historic angle, and tries to come up with politically unbiased answers how Picasso, Rivera and Kahlo looked at the Stalinist system. He also investigates how the critique of the system could be detected that time and can be now in paintings.