The culture of every social group – as opposed to the total culture of mankind"- is particular. The most specific form of this particularity in the modern age is nationalism. Paradoxically, despite of the plurality of the nation-states, they tend to become more and more alike: they operate according to uniform, universal rules. As a protest against this formal control, an organised and an anarchic variant of cultural resistance has emerged.

According to the author's prognosis, by the end of the century, the two ruling formations of our age: the nation and the mass party will decline. World economic relations prove to be stronger than the national/ national economic integration. The left wing has to respond to the changed situation with a new strategy: In contrast to a „market Europe", a cultural identity and political forms that are above the nations have to be established.

The author shows us the developing process of the „debt trap". If the accumulated debts cause stagnation, poverty and social tension in the debtor and lower economic growth in the creditor nations, even within the nowadays framework of economic thinking, i. e. if this problem is unsolvable, what can be done? Answer of the author is: the interest rate for the indebted countries must be co-ordinated with their export to the creditor nations and with their own economic growth. The solution is a common interest of the creditor and borrower nations.

Lajos Für, Miklós Szabó and Ferenc Kósa outline their opinions about the topicality of the national question, the causes behind the renaissance of national thinking, the sharpening of nationality conflicts in Eastern Europe and the role of the Jewish and gypsy question in the present Hungarian society.

The author analyses the Azeri-Armenian relations in the Caucasus that take such a sharp, violent form today which can be compared to the conflicts of national interests between Hungarians and Roumanians in Transylvania. He describes the relations between the Caucasian peoples, the history of those relations, the national movements of Armenians and Azeris in the periods of dependence on the Turkish Empire, tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union.