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No. 39 | (Autumn 1998)

The independence of the intelligentsia, the unbiasedness of experts and the neutrality of advisors are common assumptions used in everyday discourses but comprehensive research finds facts seldom supporting them. Articles in this issue of Eszmélet cast light on the fact that intellectual work is embedded in the society and politics. Science that though to be rational has an obvious failure: the proper handling of the relationship between society and nature, recognising the size of damage that present societies cause to the ecosystem and thus how unsustainable these societies are. Summarising the problems also gives a guideline for progressive environment policy actions.

Table of contents
  1. James Petras : A Marxist critique of Post-Marxist intellectuals
  2. Kapitány Ágnes, Kapitány Gábor : The guild
  3. Krausz Tamás : From expertise to the lack of experience
  4. Andor László : The Aczel-syndrome
  5. Frici Milton : Economic advisors
  6. Márkus Péter : The World Bank and Hungary
  7. Új Európai Baloldali Fórum : Proposal for green taxes
  8. Heltai László : GDP and te lack of eco-logic
  9. Christoph Spehr : The eco-trap and the abolition of the North
  10. Heltai László : Alternative economic indicators
  11. Gille Zsuzsa : Discipline and recycling
  12. James O’Connor, Victor Wallis : Ecological socialism and human needs
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On the origins of the present world in the defeat of “the 60s”

Recent changes in the world economy seem to underline that politics in general not to speak of anti-Semitic movements hardly have the capacity of influencing and changing economic structures and processes. Comparing post 1968 developments with the restauration period after 1948-49 the author in a sense argues for the contrary: the so-called structural changes in the world economy and the international political regime after 1968 are to a considerable extent tp be interpreted as a new reactionary offensive of the capital after the defeat of teh movement of 1968.
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The three waves of the Latin-American guerilla struggle

The author separates three different waves of guerilla movements in Latin America. The first one was launched by the example of Che Guevara and was defeated as a result of sufficient popular support in the 1960s and 1970s. The second wave was oriented towards national liberation but losed momentum after the defeat of the Sandinistas and the peace treaties in Guatemala and El Salvador. Recently in Mexico a third wave has emrged the movement of the victims of neoliberalism.