Resignation, “Better not to Know”, Being Busy Bees. Variations on Withdrawal No. 2 “Escape into Freedom”
The first part of this work has already shown that our passions are not the tools for survival. In this part, it will be made clear that a person consequently pursuing freedom can match passions to the great questions of existence in an organic
way.
Why Ideology?
On the book of Viktor Kiss: Marx & Ideológia [Marx & Ideology] Budapest L'Harmattan, 2011
No. 92 | (Winter 2011)
Topics of the articles of this issue vary considerably but almost all of them are common in dealing with the fundamental contradictions of the capital system and capitalism, which are undermining the framework of human life. From Holocaust to the global crisis, the reader can find thorough analyses on the chances of escaping by social production as well as on cultural resistance. The debate on the world-systems analysis of Wallerstein is also continued. A series of photos, as a new feature of Eszmélet, present the artwork of Éva Keleti. We recommend reading on Auschwitz, the ghetto, defaulting states and the world system, economic collapse, Beatles, global crisis, postcoloniality and on escaping the grip of the state and capital.
Table of contents
- Farkas Péter : On the sources of the world system analysis
- Wiener György : The approach to history in the world-systems analysis of Wallerstein
- Vígh László : Why capitalism is a world-system or why the world-system is capitalist?
- Ramón Grosfoguel : Transmodernity, border thinking, and global coloniality – Decolonizing political economy and postcolonial studies
- Benedek Szabolcs : Apocryphal Beatles
- Jürgen Kocka : History and the social sciences today
- Aron Shneer : Holocaust and genocide – What is general and what is specific?
- Frey Dóra : The Auschwitz Protocols – A still little known historical document
- Csonka Laura : Ghettos in the occupied area of the Soviet Union
- Maciej Melon : The way of Poland established an ethnically homogenous nation state – remarks to the “Golden Mine” by Jan T. Gross
- Fodor Gábor : The extermination of Armenians in Turkey during World War I
- Tütő László : Default Movement
- Szarka Klára : Éva Keleti – a flashback
No. 91 | (Autumn 2011)
This issue of Eszmélet addresses two main topics. The first is the critical evaluation of the basic principles of the world-systems analysis of Wallerstein. Contributors show that the great advantage of this analysis is the better than ever before understanding of the working of the global capital system. Nevertheless, its main problem among others is its lack of explanation of the changing social forms and the relative underdevelopment of historical dimensions. The second topic is the examination of the working class, the labour movement and workers as they are from Portugal to Hungary and from 1974-1975 to 1989-1990. This block of articles is published in the memory of Mark Pittaway, a historian and friend, who died too young. The debate over synthetic biology is carried further by two of our younger editors, questioning the borders of the "techno-science". In addition, a study on Hieronymus Bosh reveals, of course with clear association to the present, how art reflects the cataclysmic transition from a dying society to a nascent one, which itself is a nightmare turned real…
Table of contents
- Szergej Jermolajev, Szergej Szolovjov : Immanuel Wallerstein: the myth of historical capitalism
- Szentes Tamás : Thoughts about the system based approach, interpreting systems and system changes
- Artner Annamária : A no-bush has no flower
- Szigeti Péter : The world-systems theory: arguments and problems
- Krausz Tamás : What was “left out” from the theory of Wallerstein – Some reflections
- Alan Woods : Hieronymus Bosch and the art of the death agony of feudalism
- Bartha Eszter : Workers in state socialism: living standard, politics and legitimacy – Introductory notes
- Michael Burawoy : The third great transformation: Riding Polanyi into the future
- Nagy Éva Katalin : Workers councils in 1989 – The question of workers’ ownership in the process of the system change
- Bartha Eszter : Mark David Pittaway, 1972-2010
- Raquel Varela : Nationalizations: workers control or salvation of capitalism? – Case study on the nationalizations during the Portuguese revolution of 1974-75
- Tütő László : Was Lenin a hacker?
- Szalai László : Crisis management in cold war conditions
- Koltai Mihály Bence : Some words about synthetic biology – answer to Ádám Fülöp’s article “Generation I
- Fülöp Ádám : Games – without borders?
Games – without borders?
It does not matter where virtual realities begin but the actual question is who can define the end of them? Is a state or the civic society able to limit a development, which has its legitimisation by itself only? What is the future, what the techno-science with a messianic self image brings? Do we have an alternative at all?