During the rivalry between the advancing conservatism and the liberal approach, solutions offered by neo-Marxist social thought have the value of novelty. The regulated rivalry of forces in a standard form, within the frame of the rule of law, cannot be replaced by the exception of extraordinary circumstances or by the antagonistic contradictions of civil war situations or revolutionary conditions. The author describes the dynamic creation of the political as a dualism of political power and social-economical class rule. Reaching this end, he moves the focus from the static inner complexity of the world of phenomena to dynamics of constructing the political, where two directions are distinguished in the dialectic determination: an upstream (I) and a downstream (II).
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The past and future of Eszmélet. Frequent readers answer the question of the editors
Barbarism on the horizon. An interview with István Mészáros by Eleonora de Lucena
No. 96 | (Winter 2012)
The main topic of this issue of Eszmélet is the "structural crisis of capitalism". Historical and theoretical analysis is presented on the social-economical features of "new capitalism" of Easter Europe or by the words of A. Tarasov on the "second edition of capitalism" on the semi-periphery. One crucial element of these is the regression in the agricultural development: the extreme weakness of the SME sector, that is a severe step backwards even comparing to the state socialist era. Although there is a historically determined inherent tension between the socialist-communist ideas of emancipation propagated by the state socialist system and its actual reality but a sophisticated judgement on the system is made in relation to the concurrent developments in Western Europe.
In the documents section a letter of József Szigeti is published from his archives, which casts light on the background why Ágnes Heller defamed István Mészáros. The sociographic photos of Lewis Wickes Hine from the "dark past of America" illustrate that the historical foundations of the most modern capitalism are still working this days despite any change in its present forms.
Table of contents
- Immanuel Wallerstein : The Wold Class Struggle: The Geography of Protest
- Nigel Swain : A Post-Socialist Capitalism
- Alekszandr Nyikolajevics Taraszov : The “Second Edition of Capitalism” in Russia
- Vámos György : Perpetrators and Scapegoats at the Hungarian Radio after 1945
- Susan Zimmermann : Gender Regime and Gender Struggle in Hungarian State Socialism
- Szarka Klára : Illustrated Chapters from the Dark Past of America. Photoes of Lewis Wickes Hine
- Révész József : József Szigeti as Philosopher (1921-2012)
- Szigeti József : Informative Contribution to the Bolivar Prize Case
- Ignacio Ramonet : WikiLeaks
- Tütő László : Resignation, “Better not to Know”, Being Busy Bees. Variations on Withdrawal No. 2 “Escape into Freedom”
- Koltai Mihály Bence : Why Ideology?