Some authors portray civil society as the highest stage of community harmony and consensus. Civil society, however, is not so much the terrain of free association and consensus, but competition and cleavages.

Continuation of a paper published in our 54th issue, which discussed non-Marxist theories of class. In this chapter, the author explains the relevance of Marx's theory of class.

The Western press has been flooded with the reports ont he Russian mafia, and the corruption scandals of the highest echelons of the Russian bureaucracy. This is not exaggerration. It is strange, however, that the Western press only discovered the scale of Russian corruption after the collapse of the Rouble in 1998. We have reason to believe that the experts had been in the knowledge of the dark side of transition before the financial crisis as well.

In Romania, the widespread description goes that there is no anti-Semitism, while there are anti-Semits. Commonplaces and popular judgments about Jews and other aliens remind us the traditional anti-Semitic ideology. Nevertheless, contemporary anti-Semitism is shy: it knows that after the Holocaust, open anti-Semitism is not acceptable.