Due to the lack of institutionally supported fundamental research and ideologically established partial taboos this topic is hardly examined. With selected resources, he shows that in this era church leaders transformed Catholicism into a racist concept, which excluded converted Jews as well, rejecting their assimilation. Instead of actual protection moral consolation was offered.
Category Archives: Periodical
Vatican’s Campaign against the Liberation Theology: Fear of Marxist Contamination
The article written in 1984 presents the methods used by the top clergy in the Catholic Church to discredit liberation theology. A series of show trials against a theological system and theory is followed across continents during the time of general oppression and that time existing right-wing dictatorships in Latin America. What was the reason for the strict rejection by the church concerning a theology, which was openly standing up for the oppressed? What did the church want to protect so fiercely and ultimately against whom?
Original article: François Houtart: La peur d'une contagion marxist. Une grande offensive de Vatican contre la théologie de la libération. Le Monde diplomatique 1984. See at: http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/1984/06/HOUTART/38026
Thinking and Production: Remarks to an Important Book
On the book of Ágnes Kapitány – Gábor Kapitány: A „szellemi termelési mód" [The Intellectual Mode of Production], Budapest, Kossuth Kiadó, 2012.
IMF Credit
On the book of Attila Mong: Kádár hitele. A magyar államadósság története 1956-1990. [Kádár's Credit – The History of the Hungarian State Debt 1956-1990] Budapest, Libri Kiadó, 2012
Resignation, ‘Better not to Know’, Being Busy Bees. Variations on Withdrawal No. 4 The Freedom of ‘Better to Know’ and ‘Better not to Know’’
It occurs often that we do not want to know about things and contexts that can be known, doing it by negligence or on purpose. We do not take into account their existence in making our decisions that is we consider them nonexistent but after all they very exist in their consequences and hinder us in achieving our goals.