After decades of intellectual desolation Marx tops the bestseller lists again, at least this is what thousands of sold copies of his Capital indicate. After the grand narratives of the recent past suggested infallibility, the correct, deep, historical and dialectical – or simply Marxian – analysis of capitalism and globalisation earns respect again.

The article describes the historical and theoretical grounds of the concept, mostly based on Russian experience and literature. Actual forms of corruption are grabbed in the frame of the systemic change and its consequences, regarding corruption the immanent character of the capitalist world economy, which cannot be eliminated. During the era of the systemic change, the Russian state was itself the main vehicle of corruption, aiming the private acquisition of state property. The author also depicts the apathy of the present Russian society towards corruption

At the 40th anniversary of the 1968 events, the aftermath of the reforms launched by the Prague Spring and consequences of the Soviet intervention were discussed rightly in detail. The study presents a less frequently examined field: the reaction of West-European – mainly French and Italian – communist parties, the road of their gradual disaffection with the Soviet Union. The program and politics of the Czechoslovak Communist Party lead by Dubcek announcing "socialism with a human face" feed the hope of Western comrades that the "Eastern Block" can be changed.

The transformation of modern football reflects the hierarchic structure of the world system. The free flow of player-capital resulted in an unequal exchange between the regions of the centre, semi-periphery and periphery, also increasing former imbalances. Subordinating football under the total rule of capital resulted institutional and power concentration and full market rule, where not advertisements serve the interest of football but football serves the business. Capital concentration which is the outcome of draining the football of the third and second world also includes the legalisation of child work and other crimes.