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No. 5 | (Spring 1990)

Table of contents
  1. Krausz Tamás : East Europe’s conservative revolutions – Turn in East-Europe: Myth and reality
  2. Niederhauser Emil : Prologe to Eastern Europe of 1989
  3. Beatrix Campbell, Mario Telo, John Lloyd, Martin Jacques, Eric J. Hobsbawm : The end of the story
  4. M. Lengyel László : The Soviet Union: property on the road to becoming collective
  5. Magyar Péter : Change(s) of strategy of the Italian communist party
  6. Petr Uhl, Aleksandr Kramer, Vladimir Riha, Egon Bondy, Petr Kuzvart : Movement for a democratic and self-governing socialism
  7. Kiss Rita : Interview with J. Pinior
  8. Who are the anarcho-syndicalists and what they want?
  9. What does the United Left want?
  10. Hajdu F. András : The chronology of the collapse of a system
  11. Füzes Oszkár : “Well, whose revolution?” – Romania 1990
  12. Juhász József : Yugoslavia at crossroads
  13. Tálas Péter : The Republic on the eve of the 90s
  14. Thoma László : The society without alternatives
  15. Herman József : Interview with B. Denitch
  16. t : The market against democratisation – on books of Catherine Samary
  17. Documents of Workers’ Councils
  18. Socialism
  19. Nation

Who should be the owner?

Round table discussion about privatisation, the possibilities of workers' ownership. The participants of the discussion are the manager who wants to have an increasing scope of activities, the banking expert who defends monetary interference and an apostle of whe workers' ownership. The discussion is at the same time the presentation of three different concepts of socialism: one, which wants to refine capitalisation with welfare mechanisms preventing impoverishment, two, which accepts the turn towards capitalism as something bad, which however, is a necessary precondition of true socialism and three, which wants to present elements of post-capitalist economy and social organisation with workers'ownership.

The October Revolution as socio-cultural phenomenon

The author enumerates a few of the causes as a result of which the October Revolution took place the way it did. He attributes a special role to the euphoria in Europe at the beginning of the century over industrialisation, the lack of the middle class, the utopian-egalitarian influence of mass consciousness and the differences between the goals of the masses of people and the political parties, etc.

Adaptation of the October Revolution and the Soviet Union in the counter-revolutionary Hungary

The author gives a picture of the image of the Soviet Union held by groups of various political trends in Hungary during the Horthy era, from the communists to the various bourgeois ideologies and the Hungarian fascists. His main conclusion is that it is not the scale at which the Soviet Union was rejected but rather its nature what divided the various forces. He stresses that for a long time to come, not the liberalism rejecting dictatorial rule is the main opposition of the forces of socialism: they are on the same side in their opposition to the conservative, nationalistic dictatorships.