Nationalism, Islamism, Communism – Concordance of Political Ideologies and Movements in the Arab World
It seemed for a long time that radical movements of the Left and Arab nationalists oppose each other. Nevertheless, alliances were formed by them that have fundamentally reshaped the political field in Palestine, Lebanon and Egypt.
The original article is Nicolas Dot Pouillard: Un islamisme ouvert sur sa gauche : l'émergence d'un nouveau tiers-mondisme arabe? at http://www.mouvements.info
Ali Shariati: Between Marx and the Infinite – An Islamic Utopian
Ali Shariati was one of the major intellectual forerunners of the Islam revolution in Iran who as mastering both Islam and Western philosophy has almost single handedly crossed the line between political Islam and the (secular) Left. His intellectual heritage begs for the question: may a credible Islam Left be formed/revived or political Islam becomes the servant of reactionary and imperialism supporting forces for good.
Thw original article was published online at Culture Wars on May 9, 2008.
The establishment of the Party Structure in Afghanistan
Afghanistan lives through a dangerous time of chance in the world now becoming multipolar, and faces chaos again. Anyhow, the perspective for parties on the middle term is not gloom here and in other countries in the 'Crisis' Crescent in Asia: they became indispensable elements in the region of extreme importance for global strategy teaming up with other non-governmental (tribal, ethnic, religious and civic) organizations.
On the selected essays of István Kristó Nagy
Kristó Nagy István: Az ám, Hazám! Örökségünk, Trikolor Könyvkiadó Kft., Budapest, 2008.
No. 82 | (Summer 2009)
The two thematic sections of this issue of Eszmélet are linked to each other by the question of "class and/or ethnicity". Now theoretical thinking focuses again on ethnicity, a notion that originally noted an ancient community linked by (actual or imaginary) blood. Its use is spreading recently, what is connected to the local, national and ethnic resistance against global trends. In fact what actually was reborn is the ethnic consciousness as the ideological representative of the "wrong antiglobalism". This is not separable from the fact that after the systemic changes in the East, the Marxist class theory has been marginalised by the mainstream scientific narrative in East Europe. Our selection of articles demonstrates the actual relevance of class analysis in an empirical approach of historic-sociological studies, showing how it helps in explaining East-European symptoms developed after 1989, if social-economical consequences of the systemic change are seen as a dynamic play between ethnic and class categories.
The second section is addressing the war between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Around our virtual roundtable different interpretations of the events are delivered from historic, geopolitical, international legal and social-psychological approaches. The real problem in the Middle East is (either) not the confrontation of "civilisations" or "ethnicities" but the fact that large or middle powers of the smaller and greater region transform conflicts into their own vocabulary, making them their tools in the power play – in the seemingly endless capital accumulation.
Table of contents
- Kovács-Eichner György : The Gaza war, Israeli society and the developments in the Middle-East
- Paragi Beáta : “The road matters not the goal”
- Valki László : Gaza: questions of international law
- Lugosi Győző : The long shadow of Ariel Sharon
- Kacper Poblocki : Whither antropology without a nation-state?
- Don Kalb : Conversations with a Polish populist – globalisation, class, “transition” somewhat closer to the skin
- Theodora Vetta : Nationalism versus European belonging: the usefulness of “class” in reading through “identity dilemmas” in contemporary Serbia
- Florin Faje : Together but still apart: class positions and identities among futball fans in Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Krausz Tamás : On the destruction of futball culture in Hungary
- Juhász Gergő : Fotball business in the UK
- Szabó Kornél : Why European futball is not a business in the US?
- Mitrovits Miklós : Football in East Europe
- Pajor-Gyulai László : The press and football
- Ch. Gáll András : The Hungarian way of patching budget holes
- Lewis H. Siegelbaum : The Donbass miners’ movement in the very late Soviet era: an historical perspective
- Tütő László : Eurafrica belongs to Eurafricans?
- Juhász János : Nobel prize winner Sir John Hicks’ affair with the interest rate