István Mészáros: Socialism Or Barbarism: From The "American Century" To The Crossroads. New York, Monthly Review Press, 2001.

Death has a volatile "exchange rate" on the "world market", while politics systematically distorts values and proportions, and also exaggerates interests. Is it only the threatening with death, extermination and the prospect of mass destruction that could impede death, extermination and mass destruction?

Emanuel Todd: Après l'Empire: Essai sur la décomposition du système américain, Gallimard, Paris 2002

Miskolc, 4-5 April 2003

Around the 1970s, the French Left has organised lively intellectual and political debates about the possibilities and conditions of a self-regulating socialism. The socio-economic conditions and metamorphosis of this anti-state and anti-capitalist intellectual movement is worth the scrutiny. The question of the retrospective analysis is whether the principle of self-regulating radical social organisation can be incorporated into the current alternative social movements.