For those well over 40 living in Hungary, the principle of self-critique is associated with the established practice of an earlier period in the labour movement although overwhelmingly of ambiguous value, because of extremism. Contrary, as Mészáros sees, it is the deep philosophical problem of the communal society and production – reflecting immanent essence.

The original article was published in Monthly Review in April 2008.

A multipolar world must prepare for a relative decline in US power and the turbulence that may follow.

The original article was published in YaleGlobal online , July 10, 2008.

Joachim Becker – Rudy Weissenbacher (ed.): Dollarization, Euroization and Financial Instability: Central and Eastern European Countries Between Stagnation and Financial Crisis? Marburg, 2007, Metropolis.

The existence of the modern state is based on taxes paid to it. The final source of most of the tax collected by the state is productive wage work. Without productive wage work and the purchase of commodities the state misses its supply of food to live on.

In addition to pointing to biofuel as the culprit, the neoliberal policies of the World Bank and IMF in agriculture also bear great responsibility in creating a food crisis, as the examples in Mexico, Philippines and Malawi show. Farmers' groups opposing the paradigm of a globalized capitalist industrial agriculture have established an international network also proposing an alternative – food sovereignty.

The original article was published in The Nation June 2, 2008.