Erzsébet Szalai summarizes the theses of her new book with the above title (published by Aula in Budapest, 2001) and it is followed by reflections by Tamás Krausz and Péter Szigeti. An edited version of the discussion held by the Friends of Eszmélet Society.

Left-wing intellectuals usually downplay the revolutionary mass movements of the Third World and considertheir political defeats as historic failures. The author rejects the pessimism of the contemporary Western intelligetsia.

Hungarian sociologist Gábor Kapitány outlined his wievs on the intellectual mode of production in Eszmélet No. 50. Senior philosopher J. Gondi challenges these views and calls for return to the original Marxist idea.

A philosophical essay on the rival concepts of left-wing politics. Key ideas: left-wing democracy, which is the society based upon a hierarchy of autonomies, ungoverned society, and parliamentary or in other words, party democracy.

There are mainly myths, rather than facts and realistic observations that influence public opinion on the so-called New Economy that emerged on the basis of the rise of information technology. In reality, the new information industries do not demand deregulation and a change of political development could result in new ways to socialize these technological novelties.