The article, starting from the debates surrounding the new Hungarian Health Insurance Reform Act (ultimately aiming at the privatisation of the health service) attempts to analyse the destruction of social welfare systems in East Central Europe. While politically endorsing the rearguard fight trying to save the remnants of the welfare state, the author is sceptical concerning their future in the post-Fordist era. The article makes a sharp distinction between the egalitarian, statist (nationalising) and redistributive model on the one hand and the normative concept of ‘socialism' on the other.

The article is only available in Hungarian.

The author reviews the nearly century long history of Roma self-organisation and examines whether Roma people are able to establish a functioning nation at the beginning of the 21^st century – following the East European nation building model described by Miroslav Horch and Emil Niederhauser. Although the author does not want to "question the existence and capabilities of the unified Roma nation" but doubts that Roma people, living at the margins of the European society and partly scattered, will broadly support the idea of a Roma nation and self identity in the near future.

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The author points out the endogenous ineffectiveness of capitalism that is regarded by mean stream authors as anomalies but from a community viewpoint the "effectiveness" of capitalism gets a different angle. Let's the ball from the dots!

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The historical review continues from the grand return of the "left of the left" in the 90s induced by social security system reforms. Trotskyism had a chance for meaningful revival in France over the past nearly two decades when the political spectrum has been reshaped. How could it happen and what are the results?

The article is only available in Hungarian.