The winding paths of capital – Interview by David Harvey
The well known expert of world system analysis reveals a lot about the object of his decades long research. Arrighi explains hegemonies and their transfer – in the course of capital accumulation – by cyclical financial expansions following real economy ones. Change in hegemony occurs, when the spatial determination of capital changes its setting, moving into a new level: from a city state to a national state and so forth. Anyhow, there is no higher level of a continent wide hegemony. Where are capital and its representative the hegemony of the bourgeoisie heading to in the sharpening competition and crises of world economy?
Th eoriginal article is Giovanni Arrighi: The winding paths of capital Interview by David Harvey. New Left Review 56, March April 2009.
The ways ofd the world – Interview by Marco Bojcun and Mike Newman
The life course interview of the recently passed legendary editor of the New Left Review reveals the ways and opportunities or sometimes external forces, the experience of well considered and ad hoc decisions that opened/limited the space of action both in theory and practice for the left wing intelligentsia.
Th eoriginal article is Peter Gowan: The ways of the world Interview by Mike Newman and Marko Bojcun. New Left Review 59, September-October 2009.
Fundamental comparative economics – dialectic perspective
On the book Andor László: Összehasonlító gazdaságtan – Globális szemléletben. [Comparative economics. Global perspective] Zsigmond Király Főiskola – L'Harmattan Kiadó, Budapest, 2007.
An important book on the global crisis
On the book Szentes Tamás: Ki, mi és miért van válságban? A leegyszerűsítő nézetek és szemléletmód kritikája. [Who, what and why are in crisis? Critique of simplifying views and approaches] Napvilág Kiadó, Budapest, 2009
No. 80 | (Winter 2008)
According to authors of this issue of Eszmélet, those are wrong who consider the present global crisis a financial crisis only, because the financial collapse is only the tip of the iceberg – overproduction is lying behind. This crisis delivers changes in the world system, since neoliberalism has fallen. The present crisis of capitalism signs the beginning of a new era that makes people in different areas of the globe to face different alternatives. Authors of the articles of the issue make an overview not only on long waves, the role of oil but the search for new ways in Germany and France as well as the historic roots of the external vulnerability of Hungary.
In the year of its anniversary some articles address 1968 when political orientations of the revolting movement were rather mixed but all agreed in rejecting consumer capitalism that used the myth of the "American dream" also in post-war Europe to justify its existence. On the contrary, in East Europe reforms of the 60s aimed to build a "consumer socialism" (market socialism) – here the critique of the consumer society would have hardly been attractive to the masses and would not serve the interest of the political elite either.
Table of contents
- Andor László, Farkas Péter, Sebők Miklós, Krausz Tamás, Artner Annamária, Tamás Gáspár Miklós : The Global Financial Crisis and ist Critique of the World System
- William Tabb : Four Crises of the Contemporary World Capitalist System
- James K. Galbraith : Policy and Security Implications of the Financial Crisis: A Plan for America
- Walden Bello : A Primer on the Wall Street Meltdown
- Samir Amin : Financial Collapse, Systemic Crisis? Illusory Answers and Necessary Answers
- Immanuel Wallerstein : on the financial crisis
- Vigvári András : Remarks on the Sources of the External Vulnerability of Hungary
- The Global Economic Crisis: An Historic Opportunity for Transformation
- Responses from the South to the World Economic Crisis
- Mészáros Ádám : Globalisation-critique from us, for us and for all
- Andre Mommen : China’s Hunger for Oil
- Madarász Mihály : Kondratieff Cycles in the Oil Production of Russia and the Soviet Union
- Tütő László : The Temptation of Anarchism
- Mitrovits Miklós : Against the Current – Overview on the Intellectual Magazines of Poland
- Hajdu János : Two decades – in Search of a Way Forward in Germany
- Lugosi Győző : Die Linke a la francaise – Is the party structure in France changing?
- Krausz Tamás : 1968
- Slavoj Žižek : In 1968, Structures Walked on the Streets – Will They Do it Again?
- Gustave Massiah : May 1968 in the World