After a short introduction, the author publicises a document displaying the charges which provided the basis for passing a death sentence of György Marosán and for the then attack against the whole of Hungarian social democracy.
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Success and difficulties of socialdemocracy from a historic point of view
The author starts out from the social democratic features and inclinations of the Kadar system which is in a way connected with our previous issue. Then he describes briefly the history of social democracy from the point of view of the efforts of the working class to get to power, ranging from the movement at the end of the last century starting out from the principle of mixed ownership, the Bernstein-Kautsky controversy about the issue of compromise to the balking of the movement during fascism and
No. 16 | (Winter 1992)
After Immanuel Wallerstein and Andre Gunder Frank, now writings of Samir Amin are on the line to present the classics of the New Left in Eszmélet. It is a special honour to us that Amir has sent us 12 of his articles both published and unpublished, out of which four is presented in this issue. He has also sent his book The Empire of Chaos that is valued here by Imre Márton. The next to be presented is Giovanni Arrighi, of whom we publish a longer article here and an additional one in the following issue. Publishing the works of classic authors, to whom Étienne Balibar can also be counted, does not mean at all that we respect them without any criticism. That is why we have been pleased by the contribution of László K. Zalai who is arguing with the standpoint of Wallerstein. The very aim of us publishing the works of outstanding thinkers is to inseminate the theoretical thinking in Hungary.
The section under Variations on a Theme now is a selection of articles from Marx Centouno discussing the Gulf-War and its consequences.
Table of contents
- Samir Amin : Thirty years of criticism of the Soviet system (1960-1990)
- Bodács Emil : Europeanism – yesterday and today. Changes in the historical and geopolitical idea of Europe
- Samir Amin : The Third World is once again a storm zone
- Andre Gunder Frank : The political economy of the North-South conflict
- Marco Bonzio : The “Gulf” imperialism. Thoughts and assumptions on the present stage of development of the capitalist mode of production
- Roger Burbach : The tragedy of the American democracy
- Pip Hinman : War against the environment in Central America
- Thesis of an alternative European development
- Michel Husson : The liberal decade: Towards a capitalism in polarisation
- John Ross : The rise of world poverty
- Alexande Adler : East and South: the triumph of the human rights or the defeat of the human reason??
- Samir Amin : Notes on transnationalisation
- Samir Amin : A note on the concept of delinking
- Giovanni Arrighi : The illusion of development. Renewal of the concept of semi-pheriphery
- Étienne Balibar : From class struggle to struggle without clases
- Zalai K. László : The myth of reality. On the ideological-methodological shortcomings of Wallerstein’s development criticism
- k. g. : What is the thing for which the heroes of “world freedom” have sacrificed their lives?
- Marton Imre : Are the historical possibilities of the left getting exhaused?
- Andor László : Schumacher in Hungary
- One up for science
Genocide and mass murder: cultural-social and psychological origins
The outstanding Hungarian born American social psychologist discusses the psychological conditions of genocide in this study which was so successful at the 2nd European Congress of Psychologists. He primarily relies on the experiences of the massacre of the Armenians early this century, the Cambodian reign of terror, the Argentine military dictatorship and the persecution of Jews in fascist Germany. He shows the process by which groups under social frustration get to the relief of murder inhibitions – arriving there step by step from the stage of the devaluation of scapegoat groups -, and on the other hand, he analyses the psychological changes of the "bystanders", as the passivity of these people is an important precondition of carrying out the aggression. At the end, he calls attention to the fact that the same mechanisms can be mobilised against the minority selected to be the scapegoat, be they ethnic, religious or political groups.
No. 14 | (Summer 1992)
Different from our previous practice, this double issue of Eszmélet is organised around not only one but three main topics: "Religion and leftism", "Capitalism for beginners" and the "Hatered and the psychology of genocide". The three thematic blocks follow each other in this order.
Table of contents
- Konrád György, Kósa Ferenc, Tőkei Ferenc, Kapitány Gábor : Marxism, politics and moral – roundtable discussion
- Jaen Adolfo Abascal : About the (apparently) inner conflict of the Roman Catholic Church (excerpts)
- Frei Betto : Christianity and Marxism
- Michael Löwy : Rome against the Wall Street?
- Rudolf J. Siebert : The future of religion: reconstruction of socialism or restoration of nationalism? (Excerpt)
- Sara Wilsky : Neofascism – threat or a temporary feature of disorientation crisis in the new Federal Republic
- The future of politically oriented art pieces in public space – Resolutions and minutes of the Budapest City Council on
- Balogh Sándor : Society and crime
- Christoph Butterwege : New German nationalism, great power chauvinism and revanchism
- Kapitány Ágnes, Kapitány Gábor : Belief and ethics in society
- Staub Ervin : Genocide and mass murder: cultural-social and psychological origins
- Szoboszlai György : Constitutional transformation in Hungary
- Vigvári András : Privatisation in Western and Central-Eastern Europe – some lessons
- Harald Werner : Psychological dimensions of the Gulf War
- Kapitány Gábor : Interview with György Bulányi
- Hoch Róbert : The economic liberalism and the danger of a right-shift
- A few ingenious methods to syphon off the profit of weaker economies
- Fascism
- Andor László : Hayek -today
- Kéri Elemér : The 100th anniversary of the birth of Antonio Gramsci
- Krausz Tamás : Stalin and historigraphy – thopughts on the bigraphy by Deutscher