The withering sovereignity of the nation state, the strenghtening legal pluralism and the blending of laws is unusual in Western industrial countries, however it is quite familiar to the one-time colonies.

Ideas on the excercise of social interests and rights in the environment of today's global capitalism.

Is the legacy  of Attila József alive and what ideas are generated by his surviving spirit? What is the relationship between his poetry and teh public sentiment of our times? Does his belonging to the socialist left send powerful messages to the generation of the 21st century?

All versions of state socialism act(ed) within the confines of the Marxian political communism. The Hungarian "New Economic Mechanism" has proved that there was no possibility for the socialist reform of the system; the reform projected the transition itself. Because of the acute legitimisation deficit, the one party system is a necessary criterion of state socialism.