Table of contents

1. Barry K. Gills : Prophet in the desert. Andre Gunder Frank (1929-2005)
2. Andre Gunder Frank : The king is naked
3. Kees van der Pijl : The aesthetics of the empire and the defeat of the left
4. François Houtart : Is there an alternative to world capitalism?
5. David Harvey : The new imperialism and the global economy of deprivation. (Interview)
6. Andre Mommen : The essay examines the impact of globalization
7. Anwar Shaikh : The economic mythology of neoliberalism
8. Vigvári Gábor : Ten years after the Bokros-package. Comparative study of the anniversary articles in the Hungarian media
9. Lóránt Károly : The neoliberal politics of the European Union. From theory to practice
10. Andor László : Empire or whatever you want
11. Kiss Viktor : The alternatives of the reform politics – to the margin of a privately published book
12. Mocsáry József : The hour of justice. Thoughts on the village and agriculture
13. Laki László : The country and the villages “after agriculture”
14. Hajdu János : The Linkspartei comes to the fore in Germany
15. Szabó Tibor : Jean-Paul Sartre, the disputed intellectual

His life work: a half-century struggle from thesis to thesis on every possible front against the traditional directions and hegemonic paradigms of social sciences.

The article gives a profound and witty review of the basis of the economy of the USA: the debt traps, the bubble of the dollar, etc. by comparing the world economy to a pyramid game, which sponsors the American machinery from the voluntary payments of the exploited, the punter, and the bribed comprador bourgeoisie. The author relates the increasing aggression of the USA to the increasing problems in the functioning of this system…

While Nineteen Eighty-Four seemed to be a historical nightmare in Orwell's age, today we can meet many of the philosophical and linguistic "inventions" of the novel such as the aesthetization and thereby verification of war. The essay examines the historical, geopolitical and structural reasons of why the developed Western core countries returned to the once discredited dichotomy of civilization versus barbarism, and uncritically associated their social and political order with civilization. This new world order is supported by a manager-elite, which is not committed to any ideology, and is always ready to re-define its ethics and world view.

According to the famous leftist author, the "red canon", the most important goal of social movements is to understand that there are alternatives to the present capitalist economic order. There is an increasing resistance in various movement circles and at various levels but no-one believes that a political revolution can alone bring about rapid changes. For the time being, it is early to speak of the synthesis of various alternatives both in theory and practice. The attraction of market economy is palpable everywhere. And still today the neo-liberal model is opposed by two economic directions: neo-Keynesiasm and postcapitalism that are at issue also with each other.