Stressing the insufficiency of the theory, the author underlines the need to take sides unfalteringly with the interests of those living on wages and salaries which should be the minimal programme of the left wing in the present situation when society's "humiliated and saddened" groups have to face a new oppression after Stalinism.

One can learn from the British historian's writing how does the Hungarian change of the political system look like from outside placing the events into the system of relations concerning the fate of the other East European countries.

The founder of our journal's predecessor who lives in Britain analyses the nature of capitalism giving a detailed and many-sided picture of the importance of militarism in the system of capital stabilising the economy and the system.

The authors analysed what is called "existing socialism" by stressing that it was doomed to failure from the beginning as it was unable to free itself from the effects of world capitalism. The analysis is supplemented with very detailed tables of the economic indexes of the individual socialist (and capitalist) countries.

During the burial of the planned economy, the American author speaks out in favour of some of its advantages seeing in them a form of mixed economy of the future.