With a comprehensive transformation, the capitalist, export-oriented and corporate controlled agro-industry wants to put agriculture under its own as well as capitalist market control using free trade agreements, export subsidies and genetically modified plants. To gain a victory over famine – needs a different policy.
The original article Anette Groth – Alexander King: Wer die Nahrung kontrolliert … was published in Junge Welt June 13, 2008.
In a parliamentary government system the main power is determined by elections. In Hungary, we well experienced five election cycles. Wiener examines how and how deeply electoral behaviour reflects class status, tradition, family networks, religion, moral stand and several other factors and how tendencies developed. He also questions whether established methods and analytical tools really fit to analyse and measure electoral behaviour.
The article sums up empirical research made in 2007 and 2008 focusing on the personality and socialisation patterns of young activists living in the Budapest area, who are engaged in NGOs that follow political goals of left/green or extreme right.
The author reconstructs the history of the genesis of Marx's Grundrisse and analyses the importance of this work in Marx's Capital and his intellectual evolution.
The original interview was published on Alternatives International September 16, 2008.