In this conversation with some of the participants of the talks, one can read about the endeavours represented by the negotiating sides and the tactics of negotiation serving those goals.

This is a testimony of the value of a document about Stalinism by a one time camp inmate philosopher. The writing reflects a whole historical period and the world of emotions and way of seeing of a whole generation.

The French author starts out from the rejection of the economic reduction of Marxism, the illusion of a synthesis of interests avoiding tension and the individualized capitalist society which has used up its possibilities, and raises the possibility of a development towards self-government both in the East and West.

The article of the book Gesellschaft und Bürger describes the self-government rights in the companies of Federal Germany: the scope of rights of the factory council, the debates concerning self-government in the legislation; deducting the factory self-government rights from the principle of freedom in society.