The author provides a review of the events of the Gramsci centenary. He discusses in detail the addresses delivered at the Gramsci conference in Formia in 1989, enumerates the schools of Gramsci research in Italy, reviews the reception of Gramsci in Hungary and reports on the Gramsci conference held in Szeged in 1991.

The author sees the collapse of the East European systems as advantageous from the point of view of the future of left-wing thinking. Similarly to Betto, he too points to the common roots of Christian and Marxist norms whose essence is the inseparable unity of solidarity and individual autonomy and he juxtaposes this to the other line of thought of the age, the nationalism involving the interests of multinational capital.

In connection with the Hungarian edition of I. Deutscher's book on Stalin, the reviewer underlines three circles of problems: the analysis of Stalin's personality, the social-institutional background of Stalinism and the integration of the Stalinist "primary accumulation of capital" into the idea of world system, stressing the important role played by the war culture of modern capitalist civilisation, that is agression as industrial enterprise and intellectual product.

Is there a real extreme right-wing danger in Germany? The author is of the opinion that there are neo-fascist phenomena. After enumerating such events, he criticizes the opportunism of the press in belittling such phenomena. He describes the groups in contemporary Germany that can be termed as neo-fascist and the specific characteristics of their operation. Today, these groups are at the stage of assessing the mood and the article describes some of the methods of that testing. He also discusses some of the causes of the spreading of extreme rightism, especially those which in the former GDR prepared the ground for neo-fascism.