Around the 1970s, the French Left has organised lively intellectual and political debates about the possibilities and conditions of a self-regulating socialism. The socio-economic conditions and metamorphosis of this anti-state and anti-capitalist intellectual movement is worth the scrutiny. The question of the retrospective analysis is whether the principle of self-regulating radical social organisation can be incorporated into the current alternative social movements.

The history of the theory and practice of the voluntary productive associations – so-called co-operatives – in a nutshell; from the early capitalist association forms to the organisation of the solidarity (social) economic sector of the European Union.

The article presents the changes of the complex institutional relationship between the actors of labour (employers, employees and their interest organisations, and the state as an employer, owner, distributor and consultant) from the Hungarian transition to the present.

Can we speak about a unified Asia, as it was the practice within Euro-Americancapitalism for centuries? What role is given in the Asia discourse to the Indian subcontinent?

India joining the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2003 projects the deep crisis of the Indian agriculture. Food consumption indicators are falling in India for the first time in a long period, while the granaries are stuffed with grain.