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Repression is cawing in a murder. Győző Lugosi talks to Gábor Búr and László Szalai
No. 96 | (Winter 2012)
The main topic of this issue of Eszmélet is the "structural crisis of capitalism". Historical and theoretical analysis is presented on the social-economical features of "new capitalism" of Easter Europe or by the words of A. Tarasov on the "second edition of capitalism" on the semi-periphery. One crucial element of these is the regression in the agricultural development: the extreme weakness of the SME sector, that is a severe step backwards even comparing to the state socialist era. Although there is a historically determined inherent tension between the socialist-communist ideas of emancipation propagated by the state socialist system and its actual reality but a sophisticated judgement on the system is made in relation to the concurrent developments in Western Europe.
In the documents section a letter of József Szigeti is published from his archives, which casts light on the background why Ágnes Heller defamed István Mészáros. The sociographic photos of Lewis Wickes Hine from the "dark past of America" illustrate that the historical foundations of the most modern capitalism are still working this days despite any change in its present forms.
Table of contents
- Immanuel Wallerstein : The Wold Class Struggle: The Geography of Protest
- Nigel Swain : A Post-Socialist Capitalism
- Alekszandr Nyikolajevics Taraszov : The “Second Edition of Capitalism” in Russia
- Vámos György : Perpetrators and Scapegoats at the Hungarian Radio after 1945
- Susan Zimmermann : Gender Regime and Gender Struggle in Hungarian State Socialism
- Szarka Klára : Illustrated Chapters from the Dark Past of America. Photoes of Lewis Wickes Hine
- Révész József : József Szigeti as Philosopher (1921-2012)
- Szigeti József : Informative Contribution to the Bolivar Prize Case
- Ignacio Ramonet : WikiLeaks
- Tütő László : Resignation, “Better not to Know”, Being Busy Bees. Variations on Withdrawal No. 2 “Escape into Freedom”
- Koltai Mihály Bence : Why Ideology?
Via Campesina. “Globalise Fight! Globalise Hope!”
The Deep Play of Finance, Demos and Ethnos in the New-Old Europe
The comprehensive study applies a new analytical framework inspired by globalisation, unifying the 'anthropology of global systems' with the traditional Marxist class analysis on examining the historical role of the capital dynamics. It sets a parallel between the supremacy of Dutch capital over England at the end of the 17th century followed by an anti-oligarch rebel in the Netherlands and the present neoliberal globalisation followed by neo-national rebels after 1989, especially looking into the similarities between the structurally different Netherlands and Hungary.