An introduction of the journal of socialist economists in the UK. The journal, beyond more than 50 issues, is a recognised forum for progressive thinking in the tradition of Marxist political economy.
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A game without vision – Football crisis in Britain
In the first of a new series of reports examining "Great Market Failures", the authors argue that market forces are preventing the development of a successful national football team and a balanced league structure. They argue that the problems of English football are structural. They call for the appointment of a football supremo to run the game, for a ban on mid-season transfers and for the axing of 4 teams from the Premiership.
The return of the proletariat and the weakness of the left
Sociologists have been analysing the transition from the so-called Fordist model into another one named Toyotism. This process culminates in a return to a class structure before the socially reformed capitalism. Labour depreciates, and wage-earners tend to lose their social entitments. The state that used to be a counterveiling power to capital, now stands on the side of increasing class exploitation. The author argues that the left must seek the way by linking basis democracy to internationalisation.
The Hellenisation of economics
Although it is not clear for all, western economics is in a crisis, seeking the way forward after a period when irrationalism prevailed. In a broader sense, the theoretical crisis began with the crisis of the real economy sixty years ago, and the last six decades have witnessed an interesting interplay between the political process and the development of economic theory. A new, and progressive tendency in economics cannot develop without addressing the problem of value.
No. 20 | (Winter 1993)
Compared to what we have promised earlier, due to the excessive feed of articles, we have changed the content of this issue of Eszmélet a bit. Articles on social policy (completed with additional ones) will be published in the next issue; thus giving more room to the present main topic namely questions of social democracy. Most of the articles analyses this substantial theoretical and practical current in the past, present and future. Above this, a long article continues the analysis of the Kádár-era of which examination started in the latest issue. Further topics in history, self-government and economy are also addressed.
Table of contents
- Krausz Tamás : Is socialdemocracy coming or going? – A few preliminary remarks to this issue
- Erényi Tibor : Success and difficulties of socialdemocracy from a historic point of view
- Varga Lajos : Socialdemocrats and Hungary’s modernisation
- Olga Velikanova : Lenin’s figure in the public culture in the 20s
- Maróthy János : Involuntary Socialism? – Cultural policy in capitalism
- Kádár Zsuzsa : Documents on the pre-set court trial of György Marosán
- Gunnar Myrdal : Planning and democracy
- Aleksandr Buzgalin : Russian economic theory: from crisis to a new paradigm?
- Szigeti Péter : Socialdemocracy: from where to where? – Merits and weaknesses
- Viktor G. Arszlanov : Three revolutions
- Agárdi Péter : Approaches to the cultural policy issues of the Kádár-era
- Szabó László : Thesis on the extension of employee shareholding in Hungary
- Eva Samaranch Gallén, Ramón Franquesca Artés : Self-government in Spain
- Tütő László : A radical socialdemocrat. Expanding the portrait of Pál Justus the thinker
- Tőkei Ferenc : Messages from the 19th century Marx on socialdemocracy