Neoliberalism is today seen as the only theory that is able to describe and at the same time control the process of modern globalization. Neoliberalism is, however, inadequate even theoretically as it does not recognize the immanent controversies of the "almighty" market logic let alone other important economic and social aspects that are crucial for the human life.
Category Archives: Former issues
Ten years after the Bokros-package. Comparative study of the anniversary articles in the Hungarian media
The study analyses the articles and assessments published for the ten-year anniversary of the Bokros-package. The author shows that even today the majority of them are characterised either by a deep antipathy against the package or by the need of self-justification and the ideology of de-nationalisation. Therefore the package is either presented as a scapegoat or it is accepted and glorified uncritically supported by one-dimensional and sometimes self-contradictory professional arguments.
Culture et conflits
Postcolonial politics and state violence in Southern Sudan
The continuous civil war lasting since 1983 in the southern part of Sudan is originally the fault of British colonialists, but the Chinese-Canadian-Malaysian consortium which has an interest in the exploitation and sale of the oil of southern Sudan and the European Union by supporting the Islamic regime in Khartoum, also have a responsibility in the maintaining of the crisis which has turned into genocide.
The hidden driving force of dynamic development in China
The article interprets Chinese communism as a specific form of revolutionary, modernising nationalism. Its model is the industrialised, capitalist, anti-capitalist – "socialist" West, whom it attacks and imitates at the same time. The state-socialism of Mao was not only dictatorial and antidemocratic, but from the beginning it deliberately and systematically depoliticised civic life and divided society, especially the working classes. Today's China can be characterized on the one hand by social dynamism; on the other hand by extreme inequality and political impotence.