Category Archives: Former issues

Clash of social emancipation and national liberation – on the views of Mikola Pors

Pors (1877-1944) was a unique and interesting character in the Ukrainian workers movement whose name, due to different political considerations, remained unknown until recently. He represented views beyond the pressures coming from the orthodoxy of the Second International. His main interest was in the relationship between revolution, social and national claims that have strangely become a popular topic again.

A French passion: Trotskyism (part 2)

The historical review continues from the grand return of the "left of the left" in the 90s induced by social security system reforms. Trotskyism had a chance for meaningful revival in France over the past nearly two decades when the political spectrum has been reshaped. How could it happen and what are the results?

The article is only available in Hungarian.

Sartre and the adventures of the concept of shortfalls

The author shows in her writing that – contrary to many bourgeois interpretations – the Marxism of Sartre is not a negligible "disability" in his existentialism but integrant part of his thinking. The Marxism of Sartre becomes exactly fundamental in the humanism of his existentialism as the conscious and deliberate choice for responsibility of a human and intellectual. Thus the Marxists writings and thoughts of Sartre are not detours but in practice logical results of his oeuvre.

A tale about aunt Mary and the spectacle

On the surface of our social experience we mostly meet phenomenon that were produced or ordered to be produced to manipulate us. The writing attempts to illustrate how contents of public interest can be made inconsumable for the public by dressing them in professional or thought-be professional terms.

The article is only available in Hungarian. You can order a copy of the issue.