István Mészáros

István Mészáros (born in 1930) left his native Hungary after the Soviet invasion of 1956. He is professor emeritus at the University of Sussex, where he held the Chair of Philosophy for fifteen years. Mészáros is the author of Beyond Capital, Power of Ideology, The Work of Sartre, and Marx's Theory of Alienation.

 

István Mészáros, The Structural Crisis of Capital. Monthly Review Press 2010.

István Mészáros, The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time: Socialism in the Twenty-First Century. Monthly Review Press 2008.

The Unfolding Crisis and the Relevance of Marx, 20 April 2009

Pääoman kriisi selittää hyvinvointivaltion ahdingon, teoksessa Tapani Lausti: Toisinajattelun tiekartta, Like 2004

István Mészáros, Beyond Capital: Towards a Theory of Transition. Merlin Press 1995.

See István Mészáros archive

 

The Dialectic of Structure and History: An Introduction, Monthly Review, May 2011

Beware Greek-style cuts to services, Letters, The Guardian, 7 May 2010

A Structural Crisis of the System: Interview with István Mészáros by Judith Orr and Patrick Ward, MR Zine, 17 January 2009

The Unfolding Crisis and the Relevance of Marx, MR Zine, 11 November 2008

Marx and the Credit Crunch, MR Zine, 7 November 2008

The New Crisis of Capitalism, YouTube, 13 May 2008


Bolívar and Chávez: The Spirit of Radical Determination

Monthly Review, July-August 2007

The Structural Crisis of Politics

Monthly Review, September 2006

Cuba: The Next Forty-Five Years?

Monthly Review, Janurary 2004

Militarism and the Coming Wars

Monthly Review, June 2003

An interview with Istvan Meszaros

Monthly Review, April 1993

Marxism today: an interview with Istvan Meszaros

Radical Philosophy, No 62/1992

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