Osztályszerkezet Magyarországon globális perspektívából
Class Structure in Hungary from a Global Perspective

Summary/Abstract: This paper proposes a framework for the analysis of class structure in Hungary from a global perspective and aims to answer the question: what kind of class relations and class positions has the historical evolution after 2008 and 2010. The paper interprets the class structure of Hungarian society as a semi-peripheral class structure embedded in the capitalist world-economy or modern world-system. To explore these relationships, the analysis first examines the relationship between the capital-labor relationship that organizes class relations and the core-periphery relationship that organizes the capitalist world-system. As a second step, the paper examines, in a global and historical context, the class-shaping effect of the local state and the struggle of politically organized classes and class alliances (political-economic blocs) to gain key positions in the state. Finally, the analysis provides an answer to the question of how it could organize itself as a ruling class in the struggle to win the state in 2010, its relationship with dominated classes (local labour), intermediate and mediator classes (“middle classes” of the semi-periphery), and with three major fractions of capital producing locally.

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