The author analyzes the rural self-governments led by anarchists that existed for a relatively long period of time during the Spanish civil war, interpreting the given historical situation of the 1930s and confronting it with the present conditions. In the appendix, there is the resolution adopted at the peasant congress on the collectivization of the land.

The French author starts out from the rejection of the economic reduction of Marxism, the illusion of a synthesis of interests avoiding tension and the individualized capitalist society which has used up its possibilities, and raises the possibility of a development towards self-government both in the East and West.

Short history of the workers' council established in '56 and their relation to the shaping Kadarist leadership. It discusses self-government as an untapped possibility. The author publishes two documents from among the materials of the workers' councils (one of them is printed for the first time.

The article of the book Gesellschaft und Bürger describes the self-government rights in the companies of Federal Germany: the scope of rights of the factory council, the debates concerning self-government in the legislation; deducting the factory self-government rights from the principle of freedom in society.

The article is about the common root of the various leftwing trends and some of the causes why they became separated and opposed to one another. Starting out from the crisis of the left wing, it sees the way out in a new synthesis of the left. However, the supporters of such a synthesis cannot avoid the question of what the common denominator of these new trends could be. The authors of the article see self-government as one of the possible common denominators.