This short essay sheds light upon some lines Attila József's poetry connected to the workers' movement that have been misunderstood or misinterpreted.

Rationalisation penetrating into the spheres of social existence is detached from the human being, it determines his will and vision of future, it turns subjectivity into objectivity. However, it is a precondition of the humanization of everyday life that the critical approach throws light upon the power structuers behind this rationalization, the ideologies resulting from them and its laws. In this way the struggle between ideologies offers the possibility of reclaiming action and responsibility in the future.

Table of contents

1. Krausz Tamás : Anniversaries
2. Varga Éva, Konok Péter, Sipos Péter, Székely Gábor, Pritz Pál, Ravasz István : World War II ended 60 years ago
3. M. Ju. Mjagkov : The battle of Kursk in light of new sources from Russia
4. Albert Axell : Marshall Zhukov: the man who defeated Hitler
5. Note on the conversation between V. M. Molotov and A. Eden on 10 October 1944
6. Pieter Lagrou : The memory of war in Western Europe, 1939-1945
7. O. A. Alexandrov : On the book by Anthony Beevor: The Downfall, 1945
8. Szepes Erika : The book of a reasonable man. On The twentieth century as I lived through it. By Miklos Farkas
9. Hegyi Gyula : „In the state under the rule of law, the weapon is money.” A contemporary socialist poet. On István Mészáros: Attila József and modern art and on Ferenc Fejtő: From Monarchy to globalization
10. Tütő László : The rich and the poor – II.
11. Tverdota György : The vivacity of Attila József’s lyric poetry of the “last century” in the beginning of the 21st century
12. Valachi Anna : Girls and married women near Attila József
13. Földes György : “You should be the seventh yourself “: Attila József and the proletariat.
14. Szőke György : “…The movement is waiting for you …” (Re)interpretation of the lines of Attila József
15. Böcskei Balázs : The ideology of society or the society of ideology
16. Szabó Gábor : Environmental ethics and “turbo-capitalism”
17. Mark Pittaway : The conclusion of the past in the postwar Austria. Remembrance, national socialism and the interpretation of 1945 in North-Burgenland

The author describes in detail the ecological limits to today's capitalism and defends a position which would put the harmonious co-existence of human beings and nature in the place of the profit-oriented dualism of production and consumption. The claim arising from this logically is that we need to revise radically the interpretation of our concept of "good life", today connected to the level of consumption.