Anti-Semitism: “Negative aspects of a positive programme”
The study explores the phenomenon of anti-Semitism in Hungary using research methods developed in Germany on the subject. Hungarian anti-Semitism is aiming not only discriminating Jews but also the whole political left, that is excluding socialists and the liberals from the national community. Thus the cultural war intensified under the Orbán-government reproduces the democratic deficit.
Residency in the Soviet Union (Yuri Andropov’s official biography rather resembles to a cover story of a professional spy)
Lifting the veil from the ancestry of Yuri V. Andropov also sheds light on some peculiarities of the prehistory and heritage of the Stalinist system. The study investigates the historical and personal reasons behind the efforts to conceal Andropov's Jewish ancestry, presenting the first important positions in the career of the KGB chief and later secretary general, who also was the USSR's ambassador to Hungary in 1956.
After the End – On The Auschwitz Album. Story of a Transport
Nothing is more present as the past, thus the question "does Auschwitz exist as aesthetic?" is a real oxymoron. It may exist, because three is no such aspect of culture, which is not a document of barbarism as well – as it is shown in the Auschwitz Album annoyingly. But if Auschwitz is the absolute new, the impossible what happened, then how this document on the impossible is possible?
A visionary pragmatist: Rudolf Meidner, 1914 – 2005
The late Rudolf Meidnert, who passed away just last December, was known as one of the fathers of the "Swedish model". With his economist colleagues he developed a model based on centralised wage negotiations and a solidarity wage system, which enabled them simultaneously achieve both high employment level and low inflation. Meidner's most foresighted idea was the program of gradually transferring corporate shares to employees, but not even the social democratic government was ready.
Resistance and the centre of the structure
Representatives of the progression must find a new strategy in the world of modernity, lacking any centres. According to the author Derrida's postmodernism can be a reference point in finding a non static non-metaphysic way to the solution. What Zapatistas try by their "caracoles" strategy.