No. 37 | (Spring 1998)
1848 was the year of revolutions, and also an important turning point in world and Hungarian history. For the 150th anniversary Eszmélet publishes articles casting light on 1848 events and aftermaths from less known angles. Interpreting the commemoration in a wider sense, we search answers on questions how the meaning of revolution changed through the 20th century and how actual the questions of a revolution are in the present time lacking revolutions. We address the sociology of revolution as well.
Table of contents
- alfa : The revolution and those who do not need it
- Magyar Jenő : Lessons from the Communist Manifesto for the 21st century
- Szigeti Péter : The burgeois nation-state and beyond
- Diószegi István : The 1848 Hungarian revolution in international context
- Erényi Tibor : 1848 and the Hungarian left in 1848
- Henri Maler : Away with the past? An autopsy of communism
- Szalai Pál : Istvan Bibo’s concept of socialism
- Gilles Perrault : Communism: falsifications by a “black book”
- Vastag Margó : On the margin of the Soviet Thermidor
- Maróthy János : October: a light, a reflection or a will-o’-de-wisp
- William A. Pelz : October 1917: a model for Western Marxists?
- Konok Péter : Left-wing strategies: France 1968
- Kenneth McRobbie : Ilona Duczynska: losses and hopes
- Eszmélet , BAL : Forum on alternatives to neoliberalism
- Kate Hudson : Left politics in Europe
- Mihail I. Vojekov : Alternativy
- Guy Debord : The society of the Spectacle
- Geneviéve Fraisse, Barbara Schaeffer-Hegel : Revolution missed? The French revolution and women
- Susan Zimmermann : Hungary’s 1848 and the women
Alternativy
In Russia, the system change destroyed all possible forums of the intelligentsia that was involved in discussing alternative theories of socialism. This magazine is aimed at filling this gap, from a democratic and socialist point of view and without any commitment to the existing political parties. The editors also search for an alternative to the wild and criminal capitalism and economic chaos in the new Russia.
The revolution and those who do not need it
Reflections on how and why revolution was thrown to the rubbish dump of history as a political concept and alos its concrete examples.
The society of the Spectacle
A chapter from the author's similarly titled book, which is an outline into the analysis and critique of capitalism by the situationists, the most radical movement of the 1968 French revolts.
Lessons from the Communist Manifesto for the 21st century
From the most well-known paragraphs of the Communist Manifesto one can derive some less well-known conclusions once we place the 150 year old text in a contemporary framework.