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No. 1 | (Spring 1989)

This is a leftist journal, whose editors are convinced that the events of the past decades have got little to do with Marxism if we bracket the hypocritical slogans and, more regrettably, the faith of many people. Therefore the past cannot refute the validity of Marxist principles. The editors of this new journal believe that it pays to live in accordance with these principles but we have to start from the beginning and we have to follow a totally different path than what was taken by the movement, which was organized along the principles of Marxism, in the past 100 years. Consequently the journal intends to participate in the destruction of the established structures but it also seeks to oppose the processes, which Marx characterized as "the reproduction of the old trash" when speaking of the foreseeable failure of the society, which levels people on the basis of poverty.
Table of contents
  1. Tőkei Ferenc : Dedication
  2. What this journal wants?
  3. Krausz Tamás : Notes on perestroika
  4. Lev Trockij : The Bonapartist philosophy of state
  5. Tálas Péter : A failed alternative – About the 1968 action programme of the Czechoslovak Communist Party
  6. Fekete Gyula : The structure and change of position of low income groups in Hungary
  7. Szegő Andrea : World economic dependence, indebtednes, crisis
  8. Communism
  9. Class
  10. Equality
  11. What the left will be like tomorrow?
  12. Kapitány Ágnes, Kapitány Gábor : How do we see the world, what we would like it to be like?
  13. Tót Éva : About the Council Flat Tenants Association

World economic dependence, indebtednes, crisis

The author discusses the international conditions of Hungary's indebtedness which neglected by the domestic media before. She gives a detailed analysis of the role and responsibility of the international financial institutions (IMF, World Bank) in the emergence of the indebtedness crisis. She discusses separately the emergence of the debt trap from the aspect of the debtor and creditors. She outlines the possibilities of Hungary in juxtaposition to the Latin American processes, and in comparison to the Swedish, Finnish, South Korean or Spanish development model, she writes that the possibilities of Latin Americanization are more realistic. She also analyses the question of what would happen if the debtors denied to repay the debts and the reasons why they do not do that. She reveals that we have repaid the debts many times over!