The author is analysing the relationship between the bourgeoisie, the state, the communist party and the workers in the Portuguese revolution. After Portugal was question as a colonial power and an economic recession, also the bourgeoisie had an interest in centralisation. The role of young workers in the cities should not be underestimated either, who avoiding the control of the traditional social democratic and communist parties have questioned the private ownership of the means of production and launched new forms of self-organisation.
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Was Lenin a hacker?
According to Mckenzie Wark's A Hacker Manifesto, which sometimes called Communist Manifesto 2.0, controllers of information production and information distribution have taken the power from traditional capitalists over the whole system. The article evaluates the merits and limitations of the book.
Crisis management in cold war conditions
On the book of Miklós Mitrovits: A remény hónapjai… A lengyel Szolidaritás és a szovjet politika, 1980-1981, [Months of hope… The polish Solidarity and soviet politics in 1980-1981] Napvilág Kiadó, Budapest, 2010
Some words about synthetic biology – answer to Ádám Fülöp’s article “Generation I
The esoteric framework of the critique on biotechnology and the generalisations stemming from it are problematic, writes the author. It is not clear, how the most promising biotechnology research could be banned en block on subjective ideological preferences, denying several possible practical advantages delivered even in a capitalist economy.
No. 91 | (Autumn 2011)
This issue of Eszmélet addresses two main topics. The first is the critical evaluation of the basic principles of the world-systems analysis of Wallerstein. Contributors show that the great advantage of this analysis is the better than ever before understanding of the working of the global capital system. Nevertheless, its main problem among others is its lack of explanation of the changing social forms and the relative underdevelopment of historical dimensions. The second topic is the examination of the working class, the labour movement and workers as they are from Portugal to Hungary and from 1974-1975 to 1989-1990. This block of articles is published in the memory of Mark Pittaway, a historian and friend, who died too young. The debate over synthetic biology is carried further by two of our younger editors, questioning the borders of the "techno-science". In addition, a study on Hieronymus Bosh reveals, of course with clear association to the present, how art reflects the cataclysmic transition from a dying society to a nascent one, which itself is a nightmare turned real…
Table of contents
- Szergej Jermolajev, Szergej Szolovjov : Immanuel Wallerstein: the myth of historical capitalism
- Szentes Tamás : Thoughts about the system based approach, interpreting systems and system changes
- Artner Annamária : A no-bush has no flower
- Szigeti Péter : The world-systems theory: arguments and problems
- Krausz Tamás : What was “left out” from the theory of Wallerstein – Some reflections
- Alan Woods : Hieronymus Bosch and the art of the death agony of feudalism
- Bartha Eszter : Workers in state socialism: living standard, politics and legitimacy – Introductory notes
- Michael Burawoy : The third great transformation: Riding Polanyi into the future
- Nagy Éva Katalin : Workers councils in 1989 – The question of workers’ ownership in the process of the system change
- Bartha Eszter : Mark David Pittaway, 1972-2010
- Raquel Varela : Nationalizations: workers control or salvation of capitalism? – Case study on the nationalizations during the Portuguese revolution of 1974-75
- Tütő László : Was Lenin a hacker?
- Szalai László : Crisis management in cold war conditions
- Koltai Mihály Bence : Some words about synthetic biology – answer to Ádám Fülöp’s article “Generation I
- Fülöp Ádám : Games – without borders?