The late Hungarian philosopher Imre Marton was a member of the French ressistance during Wold War II and he was arrested in October 1941. In a short memoir, he recalls this period of his life and the difficulties of that time. he talks about his friends Christian Rizo and Tony Bloncourt. The memoirs are commented by Danzer-Kantov.

Table of contents

1. Richard D. Wolff : Economic crisis in the US
2. Barbara Brandt : Local community money systes in the US
3. Milij Greckij : Varieties for market socialism
4. Andor László : On globalisation books of Strange, Matzner, MacEwan and Went
5. Reinhard van der Veen, Wolfram Treiber, Friederike Habermann : Global games
6. Eric Toussaint : Reflections on Genova
7. Joseph E. Stiglitz : Towards a “post-Washington” consensus
8. Németh György : On redistribution – The end of a myth in economics
9. Stuber Ervin : The Hungarian tax system
10. Bozsik Sándor : Housing subsidization in the post-communist Hungary
11. Nagy András : The trendlines of Ferenc Janossy in the Hungarian economy
12. Roj Medvegyev : The Budapest ambassador
13. Agárdi Péter : Zsigmond Kunfi a hundred years after
14. Boris Danzer-Kantof, Marton Imre : Imre Marton (Émeric Schweitzer)

The classic speculative bubble of high-tech industries has burst in the year 2000. Another golden age of capitalism came to an end contrary to over-optimistic forecasts in the Clinton-era. In reality, the collapse was inevitable and it is easy to recognise that the previous boom of the 1990s was not that remarkable either. Real wages or free time had declined, families have faced disintegration, increasing crime and a widening gap between rich and pore behind the growing GDP.

In the early 1930s when the economic crisis devastated America many communities found a solution for exchange by developing community money systems. Farmers continued to produce and many unemployed also wanted to work but the capitalist system did not allow them to integrate their activities. From the 1980s these local money systems have re-emerged again, this time as a result of deliberate strategy.