Category Archives: Periodical
No. 44 | (Winter 1999)
This is the first issue of the second decade of Eszmélet. Our main topic is still capitalism, changes of its forms, its present trends and theoretical and practical alternatives to it. Continuing and completing the studies published in earlier issues, now globalisation and anomalies of bourgeois policy are addressed again.
As Michal Kalecki the Polish economist born hundred years ago also pointed out: one of the main characteristic – and also a failure – of the capitalist system is instability. In addition to economic developments this instability also concerns the social and political situation and can explain expressions of social violence. Articles of the present issue explain the two tragic crises the Balkan wars and the terror in East Timor from this angle and also setting the events into the scene of global power politics.
Table of contents
- Eszmélet : Conference at the 10th anniversary of Eszmélet
- Szalai Erzsébet, Wiener György, Vadász János : What is behind the elite fights?
- Makó István : A new theory of politics (possibilities)
- Fred Block : The deconstruction of capitalism as a system
- Rumy Husan, Michael Haynes : The failed attempts of catching up in Central and Eastern Europe
- Farkas Péter : The contemporary crisis of the world capitalist economy
- Artner Annamária : Trends of industrial development and Hungary
- Susan George : The roots of evil
- Jan Toporowski : Kalecki’s arguments for socialism
- Magyar Jenő : on Ágnes Heller and János Kőbányai: Monkey on the bicycle
- Böröcz József : War and histography
- Feiler József : Colletarel damage – from an environmental point of view
- Hegyi Gyula : Report to the European Council
- Noam Chomsky : Western governments and the genocide in East Timor
- Jeremy Corbyn : Arms for the death squads
- Pados István : In those times the daily pay was about 31 forints …
A MEGA hit
After eight years silence, one of the most ambitious publishing enterprise of history resurrected: it is the publication of the works of Marx and En-gels that began in 1975.
The first ten years of Eszmelet
No. 43 | (Autumn 1999)
The system change and also Eszmélet has its 10 year anniversary. To celebrate it we have organised an international conference on September 24-26, 1999 at Kossuth Klub, Budapest. Some of the speakers (Kate Hudson, Stephen Eric Bronner, Peter Gowan and Elmar Altvater) have sent us their contribution in advance that can be read in the current issue as well as the study sent to us by Immanuel Wallerstein.
One of the major topics of our ten year past was the problem of the “third way”, now discussed by Hungarian experts in this issue.
Table of contents
- Stephen Eric Bonner : Sicness onto death – International communism before the Flood
- Immanuel Wallerstein : Globalisaton or the age of transition?
- Kate Hudson : Ten years after 1989 – The emergence of a new European left
- Peter Gowan : The twilight of the European project
- Elmar Altvater : Bombs and human rights or the militarization of politics
- Régis Debray : The letter of a traveller to the President of the French Republic Jacques Chirac
- Bárdos-Féltoronyi Miklós, Hajdu Tibor, Szalai Erzsébet, Jemnitz János, Forgács Iván, Jakócs Dániel, Krausz Tamás, Harsányi Iván : The Nato war against Yugoslavia
- Krausz Tamás : History of the short 20th century
- Andor László : Historical moovie
- Horváth Gizella : System change and social criticism
- Szigeti Péter, Ferge Zsuzsa, Síklaky István, Szalai Pál, Tamás Pál : The relevance of the ‘third way’
- Síklaky István : A conceptual framework for the Third Way
- Eszmélet : A MEGA hit
- Eszmélet : The first ten years of Eszmelet