Table of contents

1. Mocsáry József : Privatisation revisited
2. Bartha Eszter : From transitology to transformation
3. Horváth Gizella : The myth of a “civic Hungary”
4. Farkas Miklós : History lessons for boys (and girls)
5. Marc Bloch : The Hungarian conquest
6. Konok Péter : The Hungarian Soviet Republic and te restructuring of history
7. Dietrich Orlow : Faces of fascism (interview)
8. Tézli Péter : on Andras Tokaji: Music under stalinism and in the Third Reich
9. James W. Loewen : Lies my teacher told me (excerpt)
10. Juhász József : History lessons in the service of “nation building”
11. Csoma Mózes : Falsifying history in Asia
12. Szalai Pál : On the nature of the Horty regime
13. Andor László : The New York drama and the Hungarian press
14. Immanuel Wallerstein : The terrorist crisis week by week
15. Borisz Kagarlickij : The US and Russia: the impact of terrorism
16. Arundhati Roy : The algebra of Infinite Justice
17. Humanista Internacionálé : For a world free of war and violence
18. BAL : Statemant on the bombing of Afghanistan
19. P. Podrabinek, Pjotr Markovics Abovin-Egidesz : Principles of socialism – Views of a Gulag inmate

Table of contents

1. Richard D. Wolff : Economic crisis in the US
2. Barbara Brandt : Local community money systes in the US
3. Milij Greckij : Varieties for market socialism
4. Andor László : On globalisation books of Strange, Matzner, MacEwan and Went
5. Reinhard van der Veen, Wolfram Treiber, Friederike Habermann : Global games
6. Eric Toussaint : Reflections on Genova
7. Joseph E. Stiglitz : Towards a “post-Washington” consensus
8. Németh György : On redistribution – The end of a myth in economics
9. Stuber Ervin : The Hungarian tax system
10. Bozsik Sándor : Housing subsidization in the post-communist Hungary
11. Nagy András : The trendlines of Ferenc Janossy in the Hungarian economy
12. Roj Medvegyev : The Budapest ambassador
13. Agárdi Péter : Zsigmond Kunfi a hundred years after
14. Boris Danzer-Kantof, Marton Imre : Imre Marton (Émeric Schweitzer)

The classic speculative bubble of high-tech industries has burst in the year 2000. Another golden age of capitalism came to an end contrary to over-optimistic forecasts in the Clinton-era. In reality, the collapse was inevitable and it is easy to recognise that the previous boom of the 1990s was not that remarkable either. Real wages or free time had declined, families have faced disintegration, increasing crime and a widening gap between rich and pore behind the growing GDP.

In the early 1930s when the economic crisis devastated America many communities found a solution for exchange by developing community money systems. Farmers continued to produce and many unemployed also wanted to work but the capitalist system did not allow them to integrate their activities. From the 1980s these local money systems have re-emerged again, this time as a result of deliberate strategy.