The author starts out from power violence and opposes it to anti-power and therefore anti-violence anarchy. He describes the trends of anarchism, the means used by anarchists, their debates about the use of violence and the terrorist age of anarchy. According to his standpoint, to a large extent, the violent solutions can be traced back to the moral characteristics of one or another movement. He argues that anarchy is the least violent of the various emancipation movements.
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Violence as self-defence – Behaviour and self-image of marginal subculture members
The author-sociologist analyses the whys and hows of getting into the forefront of the cult of violence, national intolerance and elements of fascist ideology of the attitude of young generations in the 1980s. He traces back partly psychological motivations, partly the hopelessness of the social position when discussing the emergence of these phenomena that can be identified with conscious fascism only very rarely and by taking abundant quotations from young people's ideals, he shows the specific features of thinking of this marginal group.
Interview with MP Ferenc Wekler, mayor of Mecseknádasd and leader of the Village Association
about self-government in residential communities, about the relationship between the self-government movement and the federation organised from above, and about the possibilities of self-governments.
No. 7 | (Autumn 1990)
Table of contents
- Kapitány Ágnes, Kapitány Gábor : Social struggle and violence
- Keresztes Lajos : The recruitment of violence – A fearful international enforcement force the Waffen SS
- Interview with Dr. József Merza
- Interview with János Sebeők the foundert of Voks Humana
- Tót Éva, Kapitány Ágnes, Kapitány Gábor : Conversation with Immanuel Wallerstein about the collapse of the left wing in Eastern Europe
- Gilbert Girondeaux : Military-industrial complexes against disarmement
- Ankerl Géza : On the socio-ecological survival of ethnic minorities – especially Hungarians in the Carpathian-basin
- Bodó László : Who will be kidnapped by the National Independent Democratic RAF?
- Koháry Ilona : The revolution just like Saturn eats up its own sons – Buchner on the mithology of revolution
- Loránd Ferenc : The role of force in pedagogy
- Maróthy János : March and revolution
- Porosz Tibor : Anarchy and violence
- Rácz József : Violence as self-defence – Behaviour and self-image of marginal subculture members
- Tót Éva : Interview with MP Ferenc Wekler, mayor of Mecseknádasd and leader of the Village Association
Social struggle and violence
Seeking the new image of the left wing movement, the authors argue that – in contrast to the traditions – the acceptance of violence has to be excluded from it. They list the onthological elements of violence and the main social mechanisms that produce violence. They establish a relationship between the theory of revolutionary violence and the idealisation of the working class and finally discuss the possibility of linking the absence of violence and a revolutionary attitude towards society.