An introduction and critique of various tendencies within the 1968 French left. The analysis and behaviour of different groups in the radical movement.
Category Archives: Former issues
Ilona Duczynska: losses and hopes
The article is based upon the memoirs of Ilona Duczynska, Karl Polanyi's wife. The author reconstructs the impressions, experience and impact that shaped the world view of the twelve year old girl, and created a foundation for her later revolutionary commitment.
Forum on alternatives to neoliberalism
In November 1997, the fourth international conference of Eszmélet and the Left Alternative Association provided forum for representatives of the anti-Stalinist and anti-capitalist left for exchanging views about the neoliberal reconstruction and the possible alternatives.
Left politics in Europe
An edited version of the lecture presented for the international left conference in November 1997 on the tendencies of the European left and their relations since World War I. The author argues that perhaps the most important task of the left is to build international co-operation and particularly to promote the dialogue of the East and West European left on alternatives to neoliberalism.
No. 37 | (Spring 1998)
1848 was the year of revolutions, and also an important turning point in world and Hungarian history. For the 150th anniversary Eszmélet publishes articles casting light on 1848 events and aftermaths from less known angles. Interpreting the commemoration in a wider sense, we search answers on questions how the meaning of revolution changed through the 20th century and how actual the questions of a revolution are in the present time lacking revolutions. We address the sociology of revolution as well.
Table of contents
- alfa : The revolution and those who do not need it
- Magyar Jenő : Lessons from the Communist Manifesto for the 21st century
- Szigeti Péter : The burgeois nation-state and beyond
- Diószegi István : The 1848 Hungarian revolution in international context
- Erényi Tibor : 1848 and the Hungarian left in 1848
- Henri Maler : Away with the past? An autopsy of communism
- Szalai Pál : Istvan Bibo’s concept of socialism
- Gilles Perrault : Communism: falsifications by a “black book”
- Vastag Margó : On the margin of the Soviet Thermidor
- Maróthy János : October: a light, a reflection or a will-o’-de-wisp
- William A. Pelz : October 1917: a model for Western Marxists?
- Konok Péter : Left-wing strategies: France 1968
- Kenneth McRobbie : Ilona Duczynska: losses and hopes
- Eszmélet , BAL : Forum on alternatives to neoliberalism
- Kate Hudson : Left politics in Europe
- Mihail I. Vojekov : Alternativy
- Guy Debord : The society of the Spectacle
- Geneviéve Fraisse, Barbara Schaeffer-Hegel : Revolution missed? The French revolution and women
- Susan Zimmermann : Hungary’s 1848 and the women