Neoliberalism and the European social democracyon the national economic policies in West-Europe and North-America, where these models replaced Keynesiasm and the theoretical basis of socialist-social democratic parties and the North-American progressive parties. The collapse of communism in Central-East-Europe significantly impacted on the social democratic ideology and practice; it accelerated the disintegration of the so called "German model". The end of the social democratic Keynesiasm and the maintenance of the welfare systems that are becoming more and more marked-based, empty the welfare regulations and the regulation of the labour market.

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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

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1. Sziklai László : The poet of impressive appearance. Attila József and alienation
2. Agárdi Péter : Does this century look upon Attila József with support? The reception horizon of the beginning of the 21st century and the leftism of Attila József at the occasion of the book on Consciousness by György Tverdota
3. Mike Cole : F*** you, bastard! The recent capitalism of the globalization and the racism and xenophobia against refugees
4. Böröcz József : Thought experiment on global distribution
5. Wang Hui : The idea of the new Asianism. World history – through Asian eyes
6. Rövid Márton László : Culture et conflits
7. Christian Mailhes : Postcolonial politics and state violence in Southern Sudan
8. Roland Lew : The hidden driving force of dynamic development in China
9. Gyóni Gábor : The Chechen conflict
10. Ju. A. Nyikiforov : The myth of the preventive war. G. K. Zhukov’s plan of 15 May 1941: the problems of the interpretation
11. Zsigmond Anna : Two marquis: Custine and Tocqueville. Russia and America from Europe in the 19th century
12. Kiss Viktor : The system of technologies. The problems of value and consumption in the “technocratic society”
13. T. Zselenszky Péter : The apotheosis of the homelessness. Dialogues of Diogenides – Pro Logos (excerpt)

According to Attila József "Marx's perception of history considered of four facts when he came stepped up. They were the principle of the historical development (Hegel), the new industrial technology, the working class unrest under its burden and the so-called utopian socialism, which was peaceful not militant, and which had a general human nature instead of proletarian one." In his opinion the socialism of the Marxism is humanism. "It is humanism but precisely the most human phenomena – mental disorders and neuroses – cannot be understood through it." – he says. That is why he turns to Freud and psychoanalysis.

What do commonplaces, phrases, axioms, sentences from the poems of Attila József express of our age? And regarding his oeuvre, what is the actual situation with the system criticising socialism, once stiffed like a statue and later "chastely" suppressed? The author analyses the views of Attila József on the world historical, "ontological" relationships between the working class, class conflict and high-level arts.