The GATT and the developing countries
The liberalisation of world trade under the auspices of GATT is often interpreted as creating equal opportunities for various countries in the world economy. A deeper analysis discovers the surviving discrimination behind the facade, and the increasing exposure of low income countries to monopoly groups of the capitalist core.
Indian revolt, new guerilla movement or revolution?
The Zapatist uprising that broke out at the beginning of 1994, is not a direct continuation of previous guerilla movements, and lacks the racist features inherent in many Indian riots. It is a progressive movement demanding solutions to the economic problems created in Mexico during the recent decades.
The second year of the French revolution
It is a favourite thesis of right-wing critics of progressive politics that the Jacobin period of the French revolution was a prototype of all totalitarian regimes, including state socialism. The author presents a revision of the story of 1793-4, and concludes that this was a unique period when popular movements of the time reached the highest possible level of influence.
Can a socialist market economy exist?
Péter Szigeti, József Mocsáry, Károly Lóránt and László Andor explain what is a market economy in their opinion and what is not, and whether it is meaningful to add adjectives to the phrase, e.g. "socialist market economy".
No. 20 | (Winter 1993)
Compared to what we have promised earlier, due to the excessive feed of articles, we have changed the content of this issue of Eszmélet a bit. Articles on social policy (completed with additional ones) will be published in the next issue; thus giving more room to the present main topic namely questions of social democracy. Most of the articles analyses this substantial theoretical and practical current in the past, present and future. Above this, a long article continues the analysis of the Kádár-era of which examination started in the latest issue. Further topics in history, self-government and economy are also addressed.
Table of contents
- Krausz Tamás : Is socialdemocracy coming or going? – A few preliminary remarks to this issue
- Erényi Tibor : Success and difficulties of socialdemocracy from a historic point of view
- Varga Lajos : Socialdemocrats and Hungary’s modernisation
- Olga Velikanova : Lenin’s figure in the public culture in the 20s
- Maróthy János : Involuntary Socialism? – Cultural policy in capitalism
- Kádár Zsuzsa : Documents on the pre-set court trial of György Marosán
- Gunnar Myrdal : Planning and democracy
- Aleksandr Buzgalin : Russian economic theory: from crisis to a new paradigm?
- Szigeti Péter : Socialdemocracy: from where to where? – Merits and weaknesses
- Viktor G. Arszlanov : Three revolutions
- Agárdi Péter : Approaches to the cultural policy issues of the Kádár-era
- Szabó László : Thesis on the extension of employee shareholding in Hungary
- Eva Samaranch Gallén, Ramón Franquesca Artés : Self-government in Spain
- Tütő László : A radical socialdemocrat. Expanding the portrait of Pál Justus the thinker
- Tőkei Ferenc : Messages from the 19th century Marx on socialdemocracy