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1. The past and future of Eszmélet. Frequent readers answer the question of the editors
2. Eleonora de Lucena, Mészáros István : Barbarism on the horizon. An interview with István Mészáros by Eleonora de Lucena
3. Szalai László, Lugosi Győző, Búr Gábor : Repression is cawing in a murder. Győző Lugosi talks to Gábor Búr and László Szalai
4. Szigeti Péter, Andor László, Krausz Tamás : Capitalism has not been created by the EU… Lászó Andor answers Tamás Krausz and Péter Szigeti
5. Szigeti Péter : Constructing the Political. The Problem of Political by Carl Schmitt, Marx, Weber and the Neo-Marxists
6. Tütő László, Terbe Teréz : Transition Movement
7. Peter North : Surviving Financial Meltdown: Argentina’s Barter Networks
8. Eszterhai Viktor : The Guanxi in Asian Interstate Relations. Rethinking the China-centred Feudal Aid System
9. Chris Hann : Time’s Arrow in Tázlár (and in Anthropology)
10. Zolcsák Attila : The Chilean Student Movement
11. Farkas Péter : In Defence of System-based Critical Economics
12. Bartha Eszter : “I am Hungarian but a European”
13. Tütő László : Two Insurrections
14. Szarka Klára : Capa 100
15. Appeal for an Egalitarian Europe
16. Stéphane Madelaine, Vincent Liegey, Christophe Ondet, Anne-Isabelle Veillot : Degrowth Project, Manifesto for an Unconditional Autonomy Allowance

Four excellent articles address the theoretical and historical problems of social transformation in this issue of Eszmélet. Based on the links between the material and spiritual modes of production, István Mészáros describes the conditions and limits of "free spiritual production", showing that without transforming the whole system there is no way to the realm of freedom. Starting out on the lessons from 1968, Alexander Tasasov presents the historically determined way of transforming the system revolutionary by overcoming its limits. A still forceful article of Noble prize winning writer Gabriel García Márquez from 1974 analyses the historical roots and lessons of the fall of Allende and the excellent cultural sociologist Jim McGuigan reconstructs the leading ideas governing capitalism.

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1. Szarka Klára, Mitrovits Miklós, Krausz Tamás : Neo-Horthysm and the ‘Second Edition of Capilalism’
2. Mészáros István : Historical Conditions and Limits of “Free Spiritual Production”
3. Alekszandr Nyikolajevics Taraszov : 1968 in the Light of our Experiences
4. Gabriel García Márquez : Why Allende Had to Die? Sedition in Santiago
5. Bimbó Mihály : About the Movement of “Populist Writers”
6. Barta Tamás : Divergent Middle Ways: Theoretical Categorisation of the Populist Movement
7. Florian Musil : Anti-Francoist Social Movements in Barcelona: Social and Political Victims Become the Founders of a New Democratic Civil Society under Dictatorial Rule
8. Jakab Attila : Light and Shadows: Catholic Church Leaders, Anti-Semitism and Holocaust during the Horthy Era (1920-1944)
9. François Houtart : Vatican’s Campaign against the Liberation Theology: Fear of Marxist Contamination
10. Patrick Michel, Jesús García-Ruiz : Neo-Pentecostalism in Latin America: Contribution to a Political Anthropology of Globalisation
11. Jakab Attila : Pope Francis: Changes in the Vatican?
12. Jim McGuigan : The Spirits of Capitalism
13. Bózsó Péter : NOT Simple
14. Tütő László : Whites in Africa
15. Szarka Klára : Photographer on the Street: under the Pretext of the Pictures by Vilmos Skuta

East European historians Tamás Krausz and Miklós Mitrovits talk to Klára Szarka.

The article is the 4.1 chapter "Material Transformations and Ideological Forms" of the book Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness Vol II  by István Mészáros. Monthly Review Press 2011.