The fourth chapter of the book The society of the spectacle first published in 1967. Debord explains the relationship between the proletariat and history and the ideology of class struggle from the utopian socialists and Marx to Trotsky and Lenin. he belives that the workers' councils are the only adequate instruments of the particular struggle of the working class.

An introduction of the history of the London based periodical, based on the information to be found on its website.

Table of contents

1. Kapitány Gábor : Eszmelet and the left in the 21st century
2. Tamás Gáspár Miklós : New East European left
3. Kállai R. Gábor : Reflections to the critical left
4. Kiss Viktor : An other theory of Marx
5. Guy Debord : The proletariat as subject and representation
6. Konok Péter : Demanding te impossible
7. Paul Valley : New Left Review
8. Perry Anderson : Renewals – Debate on the New Left
9. John Parrington : On John Bellamy Foster: The ecology in the marxist philosophy
10. Szigeti Péter : On Agnes and Gabor Kapitany (ed.): Eternity in change: Hommage a Ferenc Tokei
11. Márkus Péter : On Szabo-Szecsi (ed,) Studies on Gyorgy Lukacs
12. Szabó Tibor : Elements of philosophical antropology in late works of Lukacs
13. SZKP KB : Lukacs in the eyes of the Soviet secret service
14. Lugosi Győző : Gush Shalom’s points: Arguments for a new peace block
15. Balázs Péter, Galló Béla, Catherine Samary, Jörg Huffschmid, Michael Hindley, Peter Gowan, Artner Annamária : On the enlargement of the EU
16. Borisz Kagarlickij : New Left Review kills itself

In January 2000, Perry Anderson editor of New Left Review outlined the philosophy of the journal for the forthcoming period. Boris kagarlitsky from Moscow in his counter-argument claimed that this is the death of the new left.

Many who belive themselves to be intellectual follower of Marx belive that according to Marx the essence of capitalism is the conflict of capitals and workers and the latter is the inevitable revolutionary class. These analyts do not appreciate thet the proletariate is a historical philosophical and not sociological category of Marx.