On the selected essays of István Kristó Nagy
Kristó Nagy István: Az ám, Hazám! Örökségünk, Trikolor Könyvkiadó Kft., Budapest, 2008.
No. 83 | (Autumn 2009)
This issue of Eszmélet is investigating three topics. We are continuing the presentation of a reading of the systematic change according to which all the negative consequences of the capitalist restoration had been – in essence – foreseen already in 1988-89. This approach had also shown a community-socialist alternative to the catastrophic economic and social developments that have occurred.
In our world the fate of political Islam is an important topic, and its future development according to some (leftist) authors is still open, that is there is a possibility of a leftist scenario while the traditional Marxist approach cannot imagine such a scenario taking into account the reactionary tendency of this current and considers political Islam finally serving the logic of imperialism.
At last, this issue also addresses the question of the internal and external conditions of the practical problems related to the development of the "Bolivarian socialism" in Venezuela. What are the plausible social-political perspectives of this unquestionably spectacular and attractive attempt for emancipation?
Table of contents
- Tütő László : Social Philosphy Alternatives in Transforming the System in Hungary – Part 1.
- Mitrovits Miklós : The Fal of Self-Governance – The Neoliberal Systemic Change in Poland
- Mészáros István : Bolivar and Chavez – The Spirit of Radical Determination
- Kalocsai Kinga : Venezuela: from Bolivarism to Socialism
- Samir Amin : Political Islam in the Service of Imperialism
- Tariq Amin-Khan : Analysing Political Islam – A Critique of Traditional Historical Materialist Analytic
- Samir Amin : Comments on Tariq Amin-Khan’s Text
- Nicolas Dot-Pouillard : Nationalism, Islamism, Communism – Concordance of Political Ideologies and Movements in the Arab World
- Nathan Coombs : Ali Shariati: Between Marx and the Infinite – An Islamic Utopian
- Katona Magda : The establishment of the Party Structure in Afghanistan
- Kéri Elemér : On the selected essays of István Kristó Nagy
Social Philosphy Alternatives in Transforming the System in Hungary – Part 1.
The essay focuses on presenting Peter Markus' 1988 lecture, which makes a critical analysis of the reform programs suggested that time. The lecture makes an account of almost all threats and possible mistakes that came true after the systemic change as actual experience.
The Fal of Self-Governance – The Neoliberal Systemic Change in Poland
The history of systemic changes in East-Europe began in Poland. The negotiated transformation that was often presented as an ideal case has been celebrated at its 20th anniversary both by the political elite and mainstream media. The article highlights the less known background events that in fact set the path for the Polish systemic change. The self-transformation of Solidarity, the fall of the idea of workers' self-governance and the parallel advance of the neoliberal model is at centre. How could the neoliberal scenario of the IMF and World Bank triumph in a country where a mass movement of predominantly workers with ten million members was also on the stage?
Bolivar and Chavez – The Spirit of Radical Determination
The possibility of a just and globally sustainable society and the vital necessity for totally eradicating capital from the social metabolic reproduction are uniquely combined in a dialectical unity in our present day. The power of capital in the midst of its deepening structural crisis now only able to increase social tension, further damage to the nature and risky new war projects. Recently, as the basis of the quasi-colonial control over Latin-America is melting permanently, peoples of this hemisphere can realise the Bolivarian vision of a solidarity-based social-political unity giving a pioneering model for mankind to be followed.
The original article was published in Monthly Review 59:3, July-August 2007.