The author-sociologist analyses the whys and hows of getting into the forefront of the cult of violence, national intolerance and elements of fascist ideology of the attitude of young generations in the 1980s. He traces back partly psychological motivations, partly the hopelessness of the social position when discussing the emergence of these phenomena that can be identified with conscious fascism only very rarely and by taking abundant quotations from young people's ideals, he shows the specific features of thinking of this marginal group.

about self-government in residential communities, about the relationship between the self-government movement and the federation organised from above, and about the possibilities of self-governments.

One of the founders of SZETA (Fund for Aiding the Poor) speaks about the socio-cultural features of poverty, the difficulties of self-organisation by the poor and the possible methods of helping them to defend their rhterests and integrate into society.

Lajos Für, Miklós Szabó and Ferenc Kósa outline their opinions about the topicality of the national question, the causes behind the renaissance of national thinking, the sharpening of nationality conflicts in Eastern Europe and the role of the Jewish and gypsy question in the present Hungarian society.