The article provides a complex analysis of the role Lukács' Ontology played in exceeding Stalinist orthodoxy and on the different careers of the colleagues and disciples of the senior Master.

Table of contents

1. James Petras : The myth and reality of the third way
2. Adrian Little : Rethinking civil society
3. Wiener György : Class status and electoral behaviour
4. Alekszandr Nyikolajevics Taraszov : Decade of shame
5. Allin Cotrell, W. Paul Cockshott : Economic planning, computers and labour value
6. Borisz Kagarlickij : Political capitalism and corruption in Russia
7. Jamie Morgan : Sinking or drawning
8. Noreena Hertz : Of gates and ghettos
9. Alain Gresh : Anti-globalization movements and the Palestine question
10. Noam Chomsky : Palestine, Izrael, and the United States (interview)
11. Roth Endre : Jewishness and anti-Semitism in Romania
12. Andor László : Dornbusch versus Stiglitz- On Rudiger Dornbusch: Keys to Prosperity: Free Markets, Sound Money, and a Bit of Luck and on Joseph E. Stiglitz: Globalization and its Discontents
13. John Palmer : On Will Hutton: The World We’re in
14. Victor Wallis : On Walden Bello: The Future in the Balance: Essays on Globalization and Resistance
15. A NATO-val és a militarizmussal szembeni ellenállás aktivista hálózata : Opposition to NATO enlargement in Slovenia
16. Miren Etxezarreta, John Grahl, Jörg Huffschmid, Jacques Mazier : European economists for an alternative economic policy in Europe
17. Ungváry Krisztián : The responsibility of the editor
18. Werth Márk : A non-existent historian on an existing problem

The lecture held in the French Institute in Budapest on March 5, 2002 outlines how the movement for the democratic control of finance was started and what it has achieved.