This interview was made even before the first issue of Eszmélet was published, but it remained unedited and unpublished then. After 25 years now we present a curt version of this editorial conversation, since we believe that not only its questions, but also the answers were given are still relevant today.

1968 is a symbol and resource – which many of us using on the political left -furthermore it has still living legends of theory, lifestyle and personal experience. Nonetheless, how was it in reality and what remained of it? The fate of great times has also touched 1968: it has partially became a tamed memory, an object of nostalgia that is why it is hard to notice that in a certain sense it supports restoring capitalism instead of – an illusory – victory of the left.

"This is why the meaning of free spiritual production cannot be understood in an idealistically absolutized sense, no matter how great the temptation might be to do so. For even in the work of the greatest intellectual figures be they creative artists or theoreticians [… it] continues to respond […] to the actually given conditions by making its own significant impact upon the emerging transformations of the existent. Nonetheless 'free spiritual production' is free in the genuine sense – and for the same reason also carries a great responsibility as an intellectual enterprise – precisely in the virtue of its undeniable active role in intervening, for better or worse in the unfolding historical process of which it is an integral part."