What is the reason behind the fact that attempts to overcome capitalism almost exclusively originated in the semi-periphery, neither in the centre nor in the periphery, asks the author adding this important aspect to the semi-periphery debate. The answer hides in the unequal development. However, transcending capitalism, so far, was proven to be unresolved without equal development.
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Present Diagnose. Anthology of Young Social Researchers
on Ezsébet Szalai (ed.): Kordiagnózis. Fiatal társadalomtudósok antológiája [Present Diagnose. Anthology of Young Social Researchers] Budapest, 2009, MTA PTI
Liberalism is Fascism. On the concept of György Lukács
"He is writing his plebeian demagogy on an abstract Ubbi Dubbi language" said one of the critics of György Lukács. The present article is an attempt to make clear the "demagogy" of Lukács.
No. 85 | (Spring 2010)
This issue is featured with variety. From time to time, it is an important task of Eszmélet to address the question: "what comes after capitalism?" A well-known Russian author presents that corruption is an integral part of capitalism in East-Europe and in the world. This system cannot get rid of corruption, based on objective reasons and invariably to the depth of its crisis. We have to prepare ourselves to be able to understand the new developments of world systems that put in the focus the renewed debate on the essence of semi-periphery. Analysing this problem also helps to suggest effective anti-capitalist strategies in the different regions of the system. We also address again the baseline question: "what is the communist project after the collapse of state socialism and in the new economic crisis of capitalism?" Is the crisis inducing the existence of economic forms that point beyond the market economy based mode of production or this kind of questions indicate political infantilism? Ignoring the internal link between liberalism and fascism can be such a mistake that was pointed put by György Lukács decades ago – his heritage is still actual and relevant. One of our articles examines what happened to trade unions in Europe in the decades ruled by neoliberalism. Its "prehistory" should also be cleared: "what were the reasons lying behind the emergence of eurocommunism?" The lesson still should be drawn
Table of contents
- Michael Löwy : Death of Communism?
- Geoff Mulgan : After Capitalism
- Leo Panitch : Thoroughly Modern Marx
- David Harvey : Organizing for the Anti-Capitalist Transition
- Andreas Bieler : Globalisation, Neo-liberal Restructuring and Rising Inequality: the Response of European Labour
- Victory – the 65th Anniversary of the Great Patriotic War
- Mezei Bálint : The 1968 Invasion in Czechoslovakia in Forming the Borders and Principles of Eurocommunism
- Feitl István : A World Trend in Culture: Museum Development
- Szvetlana Pavlova Glinkina : Corruption as a System: Theory and Russian Evidence
- Hugo Radice : Halvway to Paradise. Making Sense of the Semi-Periphery
- Szigeti Péter : The Significance of the Semi-Pheriphery Debate
- Koltai Mihály Bence : Present Diagnose. Anthology of Young Social Researchers
- Tütő László : Liberalism is Fascism. On the concept of György Lukács
Death of Communism?
Eight theses on the crisis of "really existing socialism" (1990)An online copy of the expanded article of 12 theses can be found here .