It is a dramatic argumentation by the well known environmentalist-writer against the devastation of nature what he terms as the third world war. He considers peace with nature to be the precondition of reconciliation among people.

According to Wallerstein, since their beginning in the 19th century, the social democratic, communist and national liberation movements have chosen the concept of seizing power; this is what has failed in our century and caused disappointment to the followers of these movements. He sees a link between the East European turn and the shaking of the US's world power position. He once again expounds his theory about the development of the large regions of interest (Pacific zone and United Europe). He states however, that capitalism is coming close to the end of its possibilities, and the major unsolved problems include the lagging behind by the third world which is accompanied by population explosion, the already started decline of the middle classes and a decrease in security.

According to the author's prognosis, by the end of the century, the two ruling formations of our age: the nation and the mass party will decline. World economic relations prove to be stronger than the national/ national economic integration. The left wing has to respond to the changed situation with a new strategy: In contrast to a „market Europe", a cultural identity and political forms that are above the nations have to be established.

Discussing the background of ethnic conflicts that is to be found in uneven cultural development, the author analyses Romania's economic path and possibilities. He discusses the economic causes of the Roumanian-Hungarian conflicts and thinks that Transylvanian Hungarians could play a key role in the rise of Romania.

The domestic public consciousness can be characterised with such measure of idealisation of capitalism, which can hardly be found even in the conservative circles of the Anglo-Saxon world. Eventually this is a continuation of the wrong traditions of Stalinist formation of public opinion: the criticism of one existing society is based on the apology of another existing system. The ground for manipulation that threatens the future of the society is given by the lack of knowledge, what can be decreased by studying also a significant part of the progressive western economic, sociological and politological literature.