The founder of the Christian base-community movement called "Bokor" [Cluster] discusses the determining experiences of his life. He was sentenced to a total of nine years in prison in the Rákosi and Kádár regimes but with his conviction he has also invited the anger of the official Church circles. Bulányi is a sovereign thinking piarist monk-teacher. He discusses the realisation of the need to stand up against intolerance and the importance of freedom and loyalty in solidarity and thinking.

Different from our previous practice, this double issue of Eszmélet is organised around not only one but three main topics: "Religion and leftism", "Capitalism for beginners" and the "Hatered and the psychology of genocide". The three thematic blocks follow each other in this order.

The short study warns against the grave dangers of applying a shock therapy in Hungary. The sinking of two thirds of society bears the danger of the gaining ground of right-wing radicalism.

The participants of the round-table (György Konrád, Ferenc Kósa, Ferenc Tőkei) analyse the question of the moral responsibility of Marxist movement. Did Marx have a personal responsibility in all that what has come forth from his theory? Where do ethics and morality get separated in the political practice? Is it possible to harmonize (and if yes, then how) the points of view of politics and ethics?