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Restructuring (Eastern) Europe

The authors analysed what is called "existing socialism" by stressing that it was doomed to failure from the beginning as it was unable to free itself from the effects of world capitalism. The analysis is supplemented with very detailed tables of the economic indexes of the individual socialist (and capitalist) countries.

No. 8 | (Winter 1990)

Table of contents
  1. Marosán György, Mocsáry József, Angyal Ádám, Krausz Tamás : Who should be the owner?
  2. Without alternatives. Introduction: Why the “Russian model” is important?
  3. V. P. Buldakov : The October Revolution as socio-cultural phenomenon
  4. Nagy Péter Tibor : Adaptation of the October Revolution and the Soviet Union in the counter-revolutionary Hungary
  5. Statement of the United Opposition
  6. V. Lepehin : Do we know where we are heading? Review of the Soviet Union’s current political movements
  7. Statistics about the Soviet Union
  8. Szénási Sándor : The “two souls” of bolshevism – Interview with Ákos Szilágyi
  9. Immanuel Wallerstein : About the socialist experiment in the 20th century
  10. Samuel Bowles : Events in Eastern Europe could revitalize leftist scholarship
  11. M. M. : Who is defended by the iron curtain?
  12. Sz. Bíró Zoltán : Selected bibliography proposed to the history of the “Russian model”
  13. Krausz Tamás : The actuality of Berdaiev
  14. Daniel Singer : István Mészáros: The power of ideology
  15. Kapitány Ágnes, Marton Imre, Kapitány Gábor : Conversation with Gilbert Wasserman chief editor of M
  16. The struggle of parties paid by workers or what we should know about the Federation of the Poor and Helpless
  17. Tót Éva : An interview about the life of Sándor Szili

Conversation with Immanuel Wallerstein about the collapse of the left wing in Eastern Europe

According to Wallerstein, since their beginning in the 19th century, the social democratic, communist and national liberation movements have chosen the concept of seizing power; this is what has failed in our century and caused disappointment to the followers of these movements. He sees a link between the East European turn and the shaking of the US's world power position. He once again expounds his theory about the development of the large regions of interest (Pacific zone and United Europe). He states however, that capitalism is coming close to the end of its possibilities, and the major unsolved problems include the lagging behind by the third world which is accompanied by population explosion, the already started decline of the middle classes and a decrease in security.