The article presents the program of Die Linke [The Left] approved in Erfurt in October 2011.

Retrial – with thorough economic analysis. The author is searching the fundament of socialism in radically rejecting relations of production based on wage labour and competitive market relations. From this point of view, any idea on market socialism can only be a dead end, contrary to democratic planning established by the political economy of the labour class. In addition to meeting basic needs, this should also provide healthy environment and promote "the absolute unfolding of man's creative abilities" -"an end-in-itself".

In the Korean War, the US Air Force dropped more bombs on the area of the DPRK than it did in the entire Pacific theatre of World War II. The loss of North Koreans in lives was close to the proportion of Soviet citizens killed in World War II. In the reconstruction followed the war, the DPRK produced incomparable economic growth reaching annual 39% between 1953 and 1960. This was the result of the sacrifice of North Koreans as well as of the generous economic and technological help provided by "friendly" socialist countries – the Soviet Union, China and the GDR.

The essay is scrutinising our verbal clichés. Meanwhile its rises uncomfortable questions like what kind of hassle would Marxian communism create to everyday life.

The post provides a deep – power and class structure – analysis of the Occupy Wall Street movement which emerged on the autumn of 2011. The movement, following the philosophy of spontaneous anarchy, rejects all fixed hierarchy of decision making. This "perfect spontaneity", however, opened room for arbitrary decisions and for actions of self-appointed "avant-garde" groups that were destructive for the movement as a whole. The Socialist felt joined the events late but this still provides an opportunity have not seen for decades for rebuilding a capable and radical left in the US.