Table of contents

1. Barry K. Gills : Prophet in the desert. Andre Gunder Frank (1929-2005)
2. Andre Gunder Frank : The king is naked
3. Kees van der Pijl : The aesthetics of the empire and the defeat of the left
4. François Houtart : Is there an alternative to world capitalism?
5. David Harvey : The new imperialism and the global economy of deprivation. (Interview)
6. Andre Mommen : The essay examines the impact of globalization
7. Anwar Shaikh : The economic mythology of neoliberalism
8. Vigvári Gábor : Ten years after the Bokros-package. Comparative study of the anniversary articles in the Hungarian media
9. Lóránt Károly : The neoliberal politics of the European Union. From theory to practice
10. Andor László : Empire or whatever you want
11. Kiss Viktor : The alternatives of the reform politics – to the margin of a privately published book
12. Mocsáry József : The hour of justice. Thoughts on the village and agriculture
13. Laki László : The country and the villages “after agriculture”
14. Hajdu János : The Linkspartei comes to the fore in Germany
15. Szabó Tibor : Jean-Paul Sartre, the disputed intellectual

After the change of regime, the political elite started a new division of land by ignoring any domestic and international trend. The surpassed alternative of the "Hungarian farmer" promised and promises no prospects for the country and the villages. Unfortunately, it is not the inventors who have to pay for this Don Quijotic idea.

Michael Ignatieff: Birodalom light; György Matolcsy: American empire – The scripts of the future; Stephen Howe: Empires; George Soros: The bubble of American supremacy: Correcting the misuse of American power

The study gives a critical analysis of the America and Russia concept of two authors of the same period and social background – Tocqueville and Custine. While the former – although his class background and mentality attached him to the ancien regime – recognizes the progressive features of the American society, the latter condemns not only the barbarism of tsarism, but he also thinks that the whole Russian nation is barbaric. The study uses two different time dimensions; and also investigates to what extent these authors may be regarded as timely today.

Going beyond the eurocentric way of seeing Asian societies requires the rejection of the essentialist and expansionist logic deeply rooted in European thinking. We can understand Asian modernity as the result of the interaction of civilizations only if we uncover its real historical preconditions and movements.