An attempt to establish what is an authentic socialist movement after the total failure of all anti-capitalist experiments. A philosophic essay.

What are the opportunities of the critical and progressive left? How should left-wing intellectuals relate to their marginalised position?

Many who belive themselves to be intellectual follower of Marx belive that according to Marx the essence of capitalism is the conflict of capitals and workers and the latter is the inevitable revolutionary class. These analyts do not appreciate thet the proletariate is a historical philosophical and not sociological category of Marx.

Child poverty and income inequalities among families with children have increased steadily in the co-called developed countries of the West too. Recently, there is a threat that these differences will increase sustantially. Mainstream experts usually justify this process by ecoinomic necessities. This paper demonstrates these trends on the example of East European countries.