According to the famous leftist author, the "red canon", the most important goal of social movements is to understand that there are alternatives to the present capitalist economic order. There is an increasing resistance in various movement circles and at various levels but no-one believes that a political revolution can alone bring about rapid changes. For the time being, it is early to speak of the synthesis of various alternatives both in theory and practice. The attraction of market economy is palpable everywhere. And still today the neo-liberal model is opposed by two economic directions: neo-Keynesiasm and postcapitalism that are at issue also with each other.

The article gives a profound and witty review of the basis of the economy of the USA: the debt traps, the bubble of the dollar, etc. by comparing the world economy to a pyramid game, which sponsors the American machinery from the voluntary payments of the exploited, the punter, and the bribed comprador bourgeoisie. The author relates the increasing aggression of the USA to the increasing problems in the functioning of this system…

The interview with the author of "New imperialism" published last year analyses the changes of American imperialism in the last decades. According to the analysis, from the 1970s, the classical power policy was followed by a more sophisticated, neoliberal imperialism, which is today replaced by a neoconservative model that combines economic pressure with brutal oppression.

His life work: a half-century struggle from thesis to thesis on every possible front against the traditional directions and hegemonic paradigms of social sciences.

For about two decades there is little difference between the social democratic parties and the social liberals in the decisive questions of economy and social politics. Therefore it can be internationally important that in Germany a new political formation, the Linkspartei came to the fore. This significant experiment led by the experienced and charismatic politicians, Gregor Gysi and Oskar Lafontaine can re-arrange the political fragmentation in Germany.