According to the author, the alternatives of the present day Hungary seem to come from two directions: there are those who act because they are forced the so-called 'socios' and those who act voluntarily the so-called 'ecos'. Both groups are trying to implement postcapitalist ways of living, which could show ways out of the ever deepening and generalized crises we all face. Their potential and connections will determine the results of the community initiatives. Is another Hungary possible?

In December 1972 a group of young people from over 10 European countries hold a meeting in Basel with the aim of "creating experimental zones as expressions of a Europe in solidarity, communities of peace and democracy, which are self-sustaining due to agriculture, handicraft and manufactured products derived from the communities." This essay – based mainly on the book written by Beatriz Graf in 2006 and on an interview made with Heike Schiebeck in the summer of 2012 – tries to give an overall picture about the rich story of the Longo Mai Cooperatives.

In the recent apology of the capital, the maker of the perpetual motion in history, there is no trace of any revolutionary: the new apologists slavishly follow its uncontrolled commandments, exactly in the period of its fall. All of them, unilaterally say that there is no alternative to this system – denounces the classic of the 21st century the mainstream bourgeois ideology of our times.

In the 2008 crisis, government subventions were used to fight it – urging consumers to purchase cars and property – but the price of the temporarily recovery was rising state debt with no control. The decline of the core of capitalism, the US economy, will drag in the whole world. By deploying all of its anti-crisis tools accumulated over its history, the by now ‘outworn capitalism’ is not able to curb its serious diseases. We cannot expect a simple replacement of the unipolar world with an effective multipolar one but a very lasting decline. Barbarism is marching on the streets but the suppressed are also preparing to rise up.

István Mészáros wrote already about the structural crisis of capital in the early 1970s with a strong ecological critique. The capital system, points out Mészáros, is not a mechanism that can be logically controlled. On the contrary, the logic of capital overwrites everything, including heath care, education, production and the ecology. The drive for eternal accumulation undermines the conditions of existence. The logic of capital contradicts the ecological approach but a socialist society will be built on social and ecological sustainability.