AS WESTERN COUNTRIES APPEAR LESS AND LESS CAPABLE OF ADDRESSING THEIR FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC CRISES AND THOUSANDS AROUND THE NATION ARE DESCENDING INTO THE STREETS TO PROTEST CORPORATE GREED AND MILITARY SPENDING, MANY ON THE LEFT ARE NOW SPEAKING ABOUT NEW MORE SUSTAINABLE FORMS OF DEMOCRATIC SYSTEMS BASED ON EQUALITY AND SHARED RESOURCES. THIS PAST THURSDAY, IN MANHATTAN, THE BRECHT FORUM HOSTED GASPAR MIKLOS TAMAS, A POLITICAL PHILOSOPHER AND FORMER EASTERN BLOCK DISSIDENT WHO TURNED PARLIAMENTARIAN IN THE 1990'S AND IS CURRENTLY PRESIDENT OF THE HUNGARIAN GREEN LEFT PARTY. MR. TAMAS SPOKE ABOUT A "POST-CAPITALIST ORDER". WBAI FRED NGUYEN ATTENDED AND FILES THIS REPORT:
Co-sponsor: postcapitalistproject.org A Post-Capitalist Order Normative Ideas vs History GM Tamás
Gáspár Miklós Tamás, a prominent dissident in the 1980s and a parliamentarian in the first years of the Hungarian government following the end of Communism, is a political philosopher. He emigrated from his native Romania to Hungary in 1978 and taught for two years at the University of Budapest. After being fired for publishing (and signing openly) illegal tracts, he has become a leading figure in the East European dissident movements. He was elected to Parliament in 1990 and became Director of the Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1991. In 1994 and 1995, respectively, he stepped down from both. Tamásâs works have been translated into 14 languages. He is author of From Dictatorship to Democracy: The Birth of the Third Hungarian Republic, 1988-2001.
The Post-Capitalist Project is a cooperative, nonsectarian venture of left journals, popular education centers, and electronic media. The group hosts a website on âEnvisioning a Post-Capitalist Order at http://postcapitalistproject.org [4] that makes easily available the wide range of new programs, experiments, and theories analyzing the transition beyond capitalism toward a socialist future, recognizing that âsocialismâ is a protean concept encompassing many different historical experiences and future possibilities. Contributors include: the Brecht Forum, Cultural Logic, Ecosocialists Unite, The Indypendent, Left Turn, Monthly Review, The Nation, New Labor Forum, Portside, Radical History Review, Rethinking Marxism, Science & Socviety, Situations, Socialism and Democracy, Socialist Project, Socialist Register, Transform!, Turbulence, Working USA and ZCom.
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