A play on a revolutionary, who used to be a dissident intellectual and, due to the changes of 1989, became a head of state in East Central Europe. He lost his critical attitudes and developed servitude to the great economic and political powers of the world. In the meantime, a great historical illusion was lost.

The liberalization of international trade does not'lead to either the increase of general welfare or a convergence of national economies. On the contrary, there are many ways how liberalization improves the positions of the well-off nation states and accelerates the relative or absolute impoverishment of the poor. In the recent decades, this process took place with the help of GATT and WTO.

The homoneous world order was created by the world markets, though it is very much an ecological phenomenon. The attempts of creating a rational world rule have led to the exhaustion of resources. The globalization of economic life and of ecological crises mounts a new challenge against the current system of political regulation.

The essay follows Schumpeter's prediction, in which the Austian economist claimed that the changes of the 20th century would lead to something completely different from capitalism, and we could even call that socialism. These changes are related to human capacities and needs.

With publishing one of his last essays, we remember the late advisor of Eszmelet, Imre Marton. He analysed the correlation between anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist struggles, and he drew lessons for post-communist countries, and for the whole humanity.