Category Archives: Periodical

No. 89 | (Spring 2011)

Table of contents
  1. Dirk Adriaensens : Iraq: The Age of Darkness
  2. Fred Magdoff : Ecological Civilisation
  3. Fülöp Ádám : I-generation – An introduction into the understanding of virtual reality
  4. Hrabák András : Synthetic biology and social control – Foreword
  5. Hervé Le Crosnier : Pandora’s Box of Synthetic Biology
  6. Philippe Marliére : Prometheus, Pandora and Petri (Answering Herve de Crosnier)
  7. Hervé Le Crosnier : Preachers of Extreme Genetics
  8. Serge Sebestyén : Can we Expect Science to Protect Mankind?
  9. Tütő László : I come to criticise Lukacs, not to praise him. A contribution at the presentation of the book: Lukacs Gybrgy es a szocialista alternativa [Gybrgy Lukacs and the Socialist Alternative] Budapest, Eszmelet Alapitvany -L’Harmattan, 2010
  10. Jim McGuigan : “Cool” Capitalism. The Great Refusal
  11. Tütő László : Is a Singing Contest really a Singing Contest?
  12. Bózsó Péter : Politics of Political Economic Critique
  13. Bartha Eszter : Chapters from the History of Women in Hungary in the Era of Socialism
  14. Violence
  15. Immanuel Wallerstein : Reading Fannon in the 21st Century
  16. Loic Wacquant : A Tornado of Public Safety: Neoliberalism and Punishment at the Dawn of the 21st Century
  17. Katona Magda, Répási Krisztián : The revenge of the Weak? Drives of Female and Child Suicide Bombers

A Tornado of Public Safety: Neoliberalism and Punishment at the Dawn of the 21st Century

The neocon punishment and social policy – that is zero tolerance and the criminalisation of the poor – still rages. Why? Because the Washington Consensus and cutbacks in the social safety net now are also including the punishing control of criminals, furthermore the invisible hand of the market implies and makes it necessary the use of the iron fist of the punishing state. Comprehensive studies made over the past decade also reveal that it is now not an issue of punishment policy and criminology only but a new political line has been established.

Iraq: The Age of Darkness

Iraq was turned into a huge free trade paradise that brought nightmares from hell for Iraqis. The country became the colony of capital meaning extreme pillage in a bloody capitalist laboratory. All assets that could be found now are owned by foreigners. Iraqis understood: the age of darkness had arrived for them.

Ecological Civilisation

It is essential for our survival as a species that we reverse the degradation of the earth's life support systems. Agriculture and industry organised by principles of capital accumulation are inherently destroying their environment thus it is necessary contradicts the ecological knowledge gathered since the 19th century. Thus a new and ecological civilisation must be non-capitalistic. Its main pillars will include the self-organisation of living and working communities, biodiversity, and in several cases self-sufficiency that are matched with global cultural interchange and cooperation.