Table of contents

1. Mészáros István : Social structure and forms of consciousness
2. Slavoj Žižek : A permanent economic emergency
3. Minqi Li : Capitalism, climate change and the transition to sustainability – Alternative scenarios for the US, China and the world
4. Szigeti Péter : The character of new capitalism in Hungary and its role in the world system
5. Krausz Tamás : Theses on the interpretation of the system-change
6. Agárdi Péter : Cultural trends and civilisation concepts at the turn of the decade
7. Viktor G. Arszlanov : For reinterpreting Master and Margarita – Aristophanes-style festivity
8. Tütő László : Does a child killer protect the environment?
9. Varga Zsuzsa : From where to where have we arrived?
10. Fábry Ádám : Political economy without “classes”
11. Krausz Tamás : 2.000 words about soccer. Global capitalism and football – in four headings
12. Gerald Hödl : Football and globalisation
13. Rákóczi István : The walk of life of Vitorino Magalhães Godinho
14. Immanuel Wallerstein : Discovering the world economy
15. Magalhães Godinho Vitorino : From past to present – and what will happen tomorrow?

The study presents the economic development of China over the past two or three decades, reviewing economic policy and social dilemmas as well. Since the early 1980s, Beijing gave an ever increasing role for market initiatives and achieved immense success in the evolution of productive forces but had to face the specific outcomes of the market oriented development like unemployment and income polarization. State regulation and planning were used to tame these negative effects but it is questionable whether these two different "logics" can live together on the long term.

This analysis shows that the present conflict between the Kyrgyzes and the Uzbeks is not a rebirth of a traditional "ethnic conflict" but sprang from the internal fight between the different fractions of the Kyrgyz elite. The tension was artificially agitated to meet specific economic and political goals. The author also outlines the social roots and international background of the conflict.

What kind of problems derive in the present Greek crisis from the fact that the launch of the euro was based on the relations of exchange and conditions of the German economy? It is possible at all for a less developed economy, during a lasting crisis, to successfully compete with more developed economies thus repaying its loans taken – when the Maastricht criteria seriously limit its economic policies making impossible to follow Keynesian, anti-cyclic and development policies. 

Original:  Dimitris Konstantakopoulos: La crise grecque : Première « bataille » d'une « guerre » pour l'Europe. Revue Internationale Utopie-Critique, mars, 2010

The author presents a summary of the eight years in power of the Brazilian president that began in 2002. Lula had not broken with his successor's orthodox economic policy but his social programs in fact brought about substantial changes in the life of the poorest. His agricultural and industrial development policies have strengthened the international position of Brazil that was also supported by his foreign policy promoting the integration of Latin America. The most important achievement of the Lula ear probably is the increased self-awareness of the Brazilian society that is setting a further horizon than the limited results of the past eight years.

Original: Pierre Baudet: Le Brésil de Lula, huit ans plus tard . Memoires des luttes 21 jiun 2010