The questions of the ownership and use of land have generated a huge flood of scandals during the last year in Hungary. Naturally, the land question is not something new: agriculture is still the main element of the Hungarian economy, as it was also before WWII, in the age of state socialism and following 1989 as well; hence the acquisition of land, the relations of ownership and of power could be seen completely in the struggles for the land. As far as possible, the authors intended to review both the historical and the more present questions and hope that a wider dialogue about the land could arise on this base.
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Collective farms in the grip of the state
Zsuzsanna Varga: Az agrárlobbi tündöklése és bukása az államszocializmus időszakában. [The Rise and Fall of the Agrarian Lobby in the State Socialist Age]. Budapest, Gondolat Kiadó, 2013
Reflections on the New International
Also Peter Gowan wrote that the incorporation of East Europe into the capitalist world system is highly similar to imperialism. The starting point of the study of István Mészáros is that structural crisis of the system of capitalist production specifically falls into military interventions, in which globalized capital (which disposes the strongest positions in the so called postmodern countries) turns against modern and pre-modern regions "in order to perpetuate their so-called »liberal imperialisms and the total domination of the militarily less powerful countries by unleashing »death and destructions." According to the study, despite former experiences there are positive preconditions nowadays to organize a more combative International.
Head Party – Belly Party
The text tries to separate and draft the three types of the approaches to our world. It analyses the most fundamental differences of these in the fields of ecology, the question of poverty, the participative politics and pedagogy.
This silly profession. An interview by Andrew James Horton
This interview was published in the USA in 2002, and this is the first Hungarian publication; after the death of Jancsó it flashes light on some basic characteristics of his personality and directorial credo. The informal intonation was also an organic part of his personality.