Miskolc, 4-5 April 2003

Michael Hardt-Antonio Negri: Empire, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass and London, 2000

István Mészáros: Socialism Or Barbarism: From The "American Century" To The Crossroads. New York, Monthly Review Press, 2001.

Emanuel Todd: Après l'Empire: Essai sur la décomposition du système américain, Gallimard, Paris 2002

Table of contents

1. Andor László, Farkas Péter, Csáki György : Globalization and its threats (Disorders of the world economy and economic theories)
2. Alan Johnson : Cultural Cold War: Faust, the piper and the tune
3. Szigeti Péter : State socialist experiments – historical lessons
4. Borisz Kagarlickij : What’s left of the Soviet culture?
5. Jeffrey C. Goldfarb : How to be “intelligently” anti-American?
6. Richard de Zoysa, Otto Newman : Globalization and Hollywood
7. Edward W. Said : An alternative view of America
8. Emir Sader : The decisive year of Latin American Left
9. Krausz Tamás : The reason and meaning of the war against Iraq – in six themes
10. Trencsényi László : Is there a leftist alternative in public education?
11. Pirityi Sándor : Extermination and perishing, terrorism and self-sacrifice, deterence and security after the Cold War
12. I. Magyar Szociális Fórum : Final Statement of the 1st Hungarian Social Forum
13. Buzogány Áron : On Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri: Empire
14. John Lea : On István Mészáros: Socialism or Barbarism: From The “American Century” To The Crossroads
15. Christoph Stein, Ulrich Berger : On Emanuel Todd: Après l’Empire: Essai sur la décomposition du système américain