The treatment of unemployment in neo-liberal economic policy
In the neoliberal model the most effective cure against unemployment is the flexibility of labour markets. Contemporary neoliberal policy, however, abandons the objective of full employment that used to be among the goals of liberal politics and neoclassical economics until the first half of the 20th century.
Istvan Bibo’s concept of socialism
In the 1970s, István Bibó's views occupied a central place in the thought of the democratic opposition in Hungary. When the system change was completed the new "democrats" lost their interest in Bibó. The reason is that he4 always was a socialist and the orchestration of the contemporary political struggles in Hungary is deeply alien to his political culture.
Communism: falsifications by a “black book”
On Stephane Courtois: Le livre noir du communisme, Robert Laffont, Paris, 1997. The "Black book ofd communism" was written for political propaganda purposes and thus enjoyed an outstanding career. The review compares the theses of this challenging book to the facts of history.
On the margin of the Soviet Thermidor
Critique of the book Tamas Krausz: Soviet Thermidor (Szovjet thermidor) Napvilág Kiadó, Budapest, 1996. The 1917 experiment in Russia has not ended in a way as it was expected. Krausz in his book investigates those views that as early as in the 1920s intrepreted the changes as a "Thermidor" or burgeois restauration.
October: a light, a reflection or a will-o’-de-wisp
(Bergmann, Theodor – Hedeler, Wladislaw – Keßler, Mario – Schäfer, Gert (Hrsg.): Der Widerschein der Russischen Revolution. Ein kritischer Rückblick auf 1917 und die Folgen. [Reflections of the Russian revolution. Critical look at 1917 and its aftermath] Hamburg, VSA Verlag, 260.)
The book reviewed is a collection of lectures presented at a conference on the 80th anniversary of the Russian revolution in Elgersburg, Germany.