On the book of Béla Galló: Az újkapitalizmus régi világa [The Old World of the New Capitalism] Napvilág, Budapest 2010

On the book of Zsuzsa Ferge: Társadalmi áramlatok és egyéni szerepek [Social Currents and Personal Roles] Napvilág, Budapest 2010

Accumulation or social security? – An old dilemma of the bourgeois national economy. The price of the victory of the first over the latter is the loss not only the security in the economy and the society but also of the globe.

Inspired by the millions of fans of the Harry Potter books, the author addresses an important social question of our mediatised word how texts produced by fans, that can be created and shared on the net freely, influence the consciousness of people? Some authors believe that these texts are promoting a new, democratic and global political participation.  According to Gupta, this freedom is only virtual: fans do not question the existing order that produce profits only for the selected ones, while allow for "free" participation of the masses. Thus despite the creativeness of the texts no real exit points of the system offered by them.

Suman Gupta: Re-reading Harry Potter. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, Chapter 24.

Table of contents

1. Eric J. Hobsbawm : World Distempers – Interview
2. Farkas Péter : Worsening Social Conditions and Segregation in Hungary Facing the Crisis
3. Ana Bazac : Consequences of the Weak Class Struggle and Some Problems of the Left in Romania
4. Artner Annamária : Quo Vadis China? – Condition of the Workers in China
5. Sz. Bíró Zoltán : Kyrgyzstan is on its Way to Chaos
6. Dimitrisz Konsztantakopulosz : The Greek Crisis – The First Battle for Europe
7. Pierre Baudet : Lula’s Brazil – After Eight Years
8. James Petras : Afghanistan – The Longest Lost War
9. Luisa Steur : Adivasis, Communists, and the Rise of Indigenism in Kerala
10. Arundhati Roy : Walking with the Comrades – Ghandians with a Gun?
11. Szigeti Péter : World Order and World-system
12. Bartha Eszter : From where to where? Structural Changes in Hungary after the Fall of State-Socialism
13. Tütő László : Your Money or Your Nation!
14. Suman Gupta : Re-reading Harry Potter – Texts Produced by Fans