Schlagwort: Tamás; G.M.

There is nothing new in consecrated terms being used in an entirely novel sense without announcing the change, and thereby misleading readers. It happens every day. It is no surprise if, being unable to explain a new phenomenon, people give it a resounding name instead of a theory or at least a description.

“ The Hungarian referendum is invalid, only about 40 percent has bothered to vote. The prime minister seems to have gone stark raving mad as he is announcing victory. ‘Opposition’ leaders who did nothing and ‘public intellectuals’ who not even dared whisper a critical word during these awful months

G. M. Tamás 2 October 2016 aus: opendemocracy.net, ursprünglich: LeftEast Our first major interview on openDemocracy was on the ‘Post-Fascism’ thesis recently expounded by the Hungarian philosopher in the year 2000. Here, Tamás regretfully revisits concept and reality. LeftEast interview.  Protest against Orban's policies regarding asylum seekers in Budapest, Hungary, September 30, 2016. Vadim ...

At the bicentennial, the consecrated and anointed masterpiece of popular historiography described the French – and implicitly, the recent East European – revolution thus:
„The author did not want ‘…to imply… that nothing of consequence changed changed as a direct result of the first phase of the French Revolution. The liberties enshrined in the Declaration of the Rights of Man for the protection of free speech, publication and assembly had brought forth a political culture in which the liberation of disrespect literally knew no bounds

mit G. M. Tamás 3. Mai 2016, 19 Uhr Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst Berggasse 17, 1090 Wien G.M. Tamás liefert für das traditionelle westlich-marxistische Verständnis neue Ansätze und bereichert die Diskussion nicht nur im Hinblick auf die Geschichte des »real existierenden Sozialismus« und dessen Niedergang, sondern ebenso für das Selbstverständnis einer Linken weltweit, die sich in der Kr...

As a former dissident and as an opposition politician and theorist around 1989, I am of course frequently asked to draw a balance sheet of the great changes in Eastern Europe. There is a huge temptation to contradict myself so as not to get bored to death by my own responses, but I think I should resist it.

"One is reminded of the beautiful summer days of 1944, when tens of thousands of Jews were forcibly marched to their deaths through the streets of Budapest." Hungarian, Romanian, Serbian and Czech. by G. M. Tamás I am not qualified to write about the crisis which sends Syrians, Afghans, Iraqis, Eritreans and others to Europe. I know only what I read in the newspapers and in a few specialist boo...

Um die Macht zu verstehen, sollten wir zunächst ihre Effekte ins Auge fassen. Macht zerstört und unterjocht, wie wir alle wissen. Betrachten wir also die Folgen ihres destruktiven Wirkens.

Interview with G.M. TAMÁS in New Left Review Your trajectory has been an unusual one: a dissident libertarian philosopher under Communism in both Romania and Hungary, who has emerged as one of the foremost left critics of the capitalist order in eastern Europe, and author of a striking set of essays on the historical and cultural legacies and contemporary dynamics of the region. Could we start ...

In Ungarn betreibt das autoritäre Regime die Ausgrenzung der Unproduktiven von G. M. Tamás Eine Stimmung der Angst und des allgemeinen Pessimismus liegt über Ungarn. Das ist nicht nur der ökonomischen Krise und der Politik der Regierung von Viktor Orbán geschuldet. Diese Politik zeugt vom Scheitern der demokratischen Republik und deren marktradikalen Zielen und dem Versprechen, eine gesellschaf...