The 1990s has been spent with giving up the identity and autonomy of the intellectuals. The intellectuals have betrayed themselves by taking over the way of thought of vendors and prostitutes. Their critical attitudes have been given up and they melted with the petit-bourgeois layers and became a conformist hurd.

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, it appeared for many that the so-called calculation debate has been decided for the benefit of the market. However, the imbalances of the world markets in the recent years reopen the question whether another type of economic coordination would be more rational. The authors believe that the spreading of moder computer science opens new ways before economic planning.

The Western press has been flooded with the reports ont he Russian mafia, and the corruption scandals of the highest echelons of the Russian bureaucracy. This is not exaggerration. It is strange, however, that the Western press only discovered the scale of Russian corruption after the collapse of the Rouble in 1998. We have reason to believe that the experts had been in the knowledge of the dark side of transition before the financial crisis as well.

The recent months show how the various global issues fall into boxes and receive uneven attention. The cinicism of the summits indicates how the hierarchies of knowledge contribute to the maintanance of the divisions of the world.

The gap between the globalized economy and social justice is widening day by day. Exclusion is a key concept to understand the state of the world. (from Fabian Review).