The leading historian and sociologist claims that there is no such a thing as globalisation. He insists on the other hand that we can still speak about the relative decline of the US. This tendency manifests itself in the incapacity of the US to lead its allies into more and more wars in Asia and Africa.

Hungarian sociologist Gábor Kapitány outlined his wievs on the intellectual mode of production in Eszmélet No. 50. Senior philosopher J. Gondi challenges these views and calls for return to the original Marxist idea.

Erzsébet Szalai summarizes the theses of her new book with the above title (published by Aula in Budapest, 2001) and it is followed by reflections by Tamás Krausz and Péter Szigeti. An edited version of the discussion held by the Friends of Eszmélet Society.

Table of contents

1. Szoboszlai György : Unusual election rounds (interview)
2. Wiener György : Class and lecetional behaviour
3. Martin Kovats, Kerékgyártó T. István, Bíró András, Kállai Ernő, Krausz Tamás : Who invented the Gypsy question in Hungary?
4. Alain Reyniers : Reflections on the Gypsy economy
5. Szigeti Péter, Szalai Erzsébet, Krausz Tamás : Economic elite and the society in the new capitalism of Hungary
6. James Petras : Revolutionary politics today
7. Gondi József : Reflections on Kapitany’y theory of the intellectual mode of production
8. Katona László : A possible re-interpretation of the left
9. Csanády András : Cleavages in society and their relation to the left
10. Phineas Baxandall : Is the New Economy right wing?
11. Szegváry Tamás : On the four books published on Kadar in 2001
12. ATTAC Magyarország : Platform
13. Thomas Fritz : ATTAC and the left-wing criticism of capitalism
14. Markus Wissen : Development possibilities of ATTAC
15. Immanuel Wallerstein : War, hegemony, globalisation (interview)

A philosophical essay on the rival concepts of left-wing politics. Key ideas: left-wing democracy, which is the society based upon a hierarchy of autonomies, ungoverned society, and parliamentary or in other words, party democracy.