The institutional system, legislation and subsidy system of the EU serve first of all the purpose of maintaining the full power of West-European monopolies, thus also their monopoly profits vs. interests of national states and workers of the centre and periphery in Europe. The crisis of the eurozone has smashed illusions about the EU and the Europe Project is heading to a collapse. The fight against austerity and emptied democracy is deemed to fail, unless national sovereignty is restored over economic and monetary policies. The modern left should replace the Europe Project by a new anti-imperialist and internationalist program.

In present-day capitalism, monopolies excise fuller control the production systems of the world than ever before. They launched a war on workers and nations for maintaining their monopoly profit. A new compromise is not possible, continuing capitalism leads only to barbarism. That is why the left should be courageous enough for setting radical goals. Such a vital goal is the confiscation and socialisation of monopolies, the establishment of the institutions of building democratic consensus. Countries embarking on this road, should delink from the present global system,installing national planning and South-South cooperation.

Now, when the term working class is used in Hungary by radical leftist circles only, this study is especially important, which gives an enjoyable review of the history of the working class in the 20th century as well as on its intellectual tradition, movements and world shaping revolutions, of course including the contradictory but in many respects positive revolutions in Russia and China. The author examines the reasons behind the defeat of the workers' movements, and sees the future of the left in crossing its Europe centrism in a world where consumption and growing middle classes have already crossed the national borders.

Everything is identical to its own history – why should history itself be an exemption? This paraphrase of Hegel can also be applied to Marxist history writing- shows the author. The once well known quote from Marx, "the philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it" is still valid but its validity is not self-explaining. The world has changed as well as its understanding, especially the understanding of changes, so "understanding" is also questioned, which might become a cliché together with the conclusion that changing the world is an illusion.