In our new series the author review a series of pieces of thought from the 19th century, especially from Marxism juxtaposing them with the current situation.

The study written in the form of a review describes the three great revolu­tions, the American, the French and the Russian through their description by contemporaries and by doing so, he calls attention to the fact that some of the great personalities of the liberal pantheon were far from sharing the aversion of today's theoreticians of the new right towards social justice, the opposition to private property, direct democracy and towards the ideals of re­volution in the world historical sense.

The crisis of socialism is at the same time the crisis of social democracy. The author denies the concept that social democracy could become a paradigm trend even without an appropriate theoretical basis. He also de­bates the view that through the paternalism of the welfare state, the histo­rical achievement of social democracy, it would have lost its progressive character. He points out that the multis are much more aggressive when in­terfering in the "spontaneous processes". If social democracy can be criticised for anything, then it is the far too strong absence of criticism towards representative democracy (to the expense of the mechanism of direct democracy that can be put up against international capital gaining strength with globalisation).