Resignation, ‘Better not to Know’, Being Busy Bees. Variations on Withdrawal No. 3 ‘The Freedom of Resignation’
This chapter of the series is examining questions related to the establishment and demolition of a comprehensive horizon. Namely, the situation when the position reached intellectually – due to various reasons – becomes temporarily or permanently untenable in practical behaviour (thus as result also intellectually untenable). The trajectory consists of a rise and a decline or retreat.
The Identity and Identities of Attila József
Identity – argues the author – can be seen as three layers built in each other: personal identity as peculiarity or the base, mankind as generality and mediation as a particular layer. The search for identity by József is one the one hand well known but on the other hand is – as all intellectual nuances – somewhat forgotten. Of course, the identity of the poet is in his poems – in his personality, epoch, heritage and future, as to say in his proletarian heritage.
Photos of Zoltán Molnár Taken in Transylvania and Moldova
Volunteers for Barbarism. Memories of Anatoly Tunin, Who was Five, When Cast in the Damned War.
"Whose orders were acted on by the Hungarian hangmen, who have been beating elderly and children fighting under the German fascist flags? Who was forcing them to do this back my home in Skupaya Potudan, splashing my little older brother on the face and later keeping him at the gunpoint? Nobody! They were volunteers for barbarism, allegedly the messengers of the civilised Europe! They acted on their own will, did it all on purpose not on the order of others."
No. 97 | (Spring 2013)
This issue of Eszmélet presents the lessons from the defeat of the socialist left and the workers' movement in new contexts. This defeat has not eased the internal crisis of capitalism and the capital system but weakened the strength of forces opposing the system for a humanist alternative. In the light of recent research results, the link between the European and global scale cannot be more ignored. While bourgeois ideology is speaking about the death of Marx for decades, after a retreat he is returning in Eastern Europe as well in many different ways. The death of Eric Hobsbawm deprived Marxist history writing from its last man of encyclopedic knowledge but his work remains us inspiring.
The heo-Horthyst ideological climate around the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the catastrophe of the Hungarian army in the WW II is also presented in this issue. Our contribution to the national remembrance is recalling memories on the war crimes committed by the Hungarian occupation forces. This is also part of the fight to change the world, even though if this process is far more complex than that was imagined by earlier generations of Marxists.
Table of contents
- Eric J. Hobsbawm : History: a New Age of Reason
- Göran Therborn : Class in the 21st Century
- Samir Amin : Implosion of Contemporary Capitalism. Audacity, More Audacity in Formulating an Alternative to the Existing System
- Samir Amin : Implosion of the European System
- Michel Aglietta : The European Vortex
- Marchel van der Linden : Strikes will not wane but will gain importance, An interview by Raquel Varela
- Marchel van der Linden : Labour History Beyond Borders
- Tütő László : Revolutionary Conservatism. Marx vs. Marx
- Vázsonyi Dániel : What is Capitalism? A Civilization, a Production Mode, a Good Idea or Something Else?
- Tütő László : Resignation, ‘Better not to Know’, Being Busy Bees. Variations on Withdrawal No. 3 ‘The Freedom of Resignation’
- Garai László : The Identity and Identities of Attila József
- Szarka Klára : Photos of Zoltán Molnár Taken in Transylvania and Moldova
- Volunteers for Barbarism. Memories of Anatoly Tunin, Who was Five, When Cast in the Damned War.