This issue of Eszmélet mostly contains articles of economic theory and economic policy. The starting question is: is there any theory that can properly catch the essence of domestic and international transitions? Is bourgeois economic theory able to show solutions both in the East and West? An article on British football presents a model of economic developments in a specific area of life where market obviously should not enter or maybe only with restrictions. In futures issues, we will address questions of culture, natural environment and information economics from a similar angle.

Table of contents

1. Szigeti Péter, Andor László, Mocsáry József, Lóránt Károly, Krausz Tamás : Can a socialist market economy exist?
2. Vigvári András : Some features of the privatisation in Hungary
3. Hugo Radice : The role of foreign capital in the transformation of Eastern Europe
4. Capital and Class
5. Paul Williamson, Dan Corry : A game without vision – Football crisis in Britain
6. Karl-Heinz Roth : The return of the proletariat and the weakness of the left
7. Trautmann László : The Hellenisation of economics
8. Hoch Róbert : On the history of economic reform – Comments to Kornai’s article
9. Krausz Tamás : Political economy against history
10. call to the G7 on debt-relief
11. Michael Knüfer : The GATT and the developing countries
12. Aurelio Martinez, Etienne Largend : Indian revolt, new guerilla movement or revolution?
13. Jean Martin : The second year of the French revolution

This issue of Eszmélet is published at the time of general elections thus we have to ask: what are the limits of our choices? How the possible is related to the limitations in the existing system of "democracy"? The block of articles addressing theoretical and practical problems of bourgeois democracy aims to raise and answer questions that are not in focus of daily political debates and analysis. A separate group of articles deal with political symptoms in the third world like the raise of Islam or populism of which analysis often misses to look at underlying economic fundamentals. This latter problem makes us to thoroughly address some fundamental economic theory and policy problems in the next issue.

Table of contents

1. Perecz László, Szigeti Péter, Z. Karvalics László, Hack Péter, Krausz Tamás, Susan Zimmermann : Beyond burgeois democracy
2. Andor László : Society, history and politics – interview with György Wiener
3. Samir Amin : Theses on the European left
4. Andor László : A short history of our democracies
5. Chantal Mouffe : The return of the political
6. Yar Mohamed, Katona Magda : Modern Islam and the agriculture question
7. Balogh András : Integration and catching up
8. Francois Burgat : Islam and pluralism
9. Volker Perthes : The fiction of fundamentalism
10. Otto Kreye : The external indebtness of developing countries
11. Folker Fröbel, Susan Zimmermann : Social conflicts in the blind alley of peripherial capitalism
12. Csáki György : Hungary and the IMF
13. Charta 88 : Declaration
14. Mikes Tamás : In opposition in the 80s
15. Polyák Andrea : On New Exodus – New tendencies in inernational labour migration
16. Eszmélet : New Internationalist
17. NAFTA
18. Maquiladora
19. Zapata
20. n. n. : One world, several worlds – introduction to the issue of “Third Wold”
21. How to return from Germany to the Third World?

An introduction of the British monthly dealing with developing countries and global problems.