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.

What can social science do with a concept like electoral behaviour that is supposed to explain the results of parliamentary elections. What are the independent variables that affect the voting citizen? A critical review of political sociology helps understanding the current Hungarian political press as well.

The expert of constitutional law evaluates the 2002 elections in Hungary. The bipolar nature of Hungarian politics has become more apparent than before. There are less parties in parliament than in previous cycles and the cultural and political division of the nation appears to be enormous.

There are mainly myths, rather than facts and realistic observations that influence public opinion on the so-called New Economy that emerged on the basis of the rise of information technology. In reality, the new information industries do not demand deregulation and a change of political development could result in new ways to socialize these technological novelties.