On the book of Gábor Szabó: Szétszakadó világunk – a globalizáció emberi jogi kockázatai. [Our World Tearing Apart – Human Rights Risks in Globalisation] Pécs, Publikon, 2010
Category Archives: Former issues
The German question – now
The political role of Germany is on a rising trend, determined by the economical strength of the country – argues the article. There is not any guarantee at the present situation that this larger weight directs towards a progressive and positive direction.
Digital self-organisation – with limits
Internet based communities are examples of self-organisation. In many cases they overcome private ownership and commodity relations established between people. Nevertheless, their only partial anti-capitalism may serve the better operation of the system.
Nazi art looting in the occupied zones of the Soviet Union
Recent falsifications of history move attention – by a "trick" – from the discourse on the Nazi art looting of cultural treasures to the "compensation" policy of the Soviet Union after the war. Let us return to original sources and see the magni-tude of the art looting in the Soviet Union as well as the interests of the German capital in it.
Health, health care and capitalism
According to the widespread interpretation of our days, the huge improvement concerning health affairs over the past 100-150 years is obviously an achievement of capitalism. In fact the relationship between capitalism and health conditions is rather contradictious thus the revolution in public health and later the establishment of universal social security systems often were realized against the active resistance of capitalists. Countries less developed according to capitalist standards or even non-capitalistic ones have also been able to achieve a dramatic improvement in extending life expectancies at relatively low costs. Capitalism is unable to actually solve the stubborn inequality – one of the fundamental reasons of health problems, furthermore is unwilling to raise this question. In the past decades, private capital interest became more and more determining in the operation of the health care system – having the result of increasing inequality in the access to and level of health care services.
The original article in the Socialist Register (Vol. 46), 2010 .