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

In the edited version of the discussion that has taken place at the Eszmélet Companionship, Péter Farkas presents the main arguments of his new book of the same title (published by Aula, Budapest, 2002) with responses by László Andor and György Csáki.

"… the world is today full of people inventing histories and lying about history and that's largely because the people who do this are not actually interested in the past. What they are interested in is something which will make the punters feel good" – said the renowned British Marxist historian in the interview of The Observer upon the publication of his memoirs.