This volume presents articles by Ivan Szelenyi - William Graham Sumner Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Yale University since 50 years. The world has changed a lot in this half century. When the first contribution to this volume was published in 1969, Hungary was the "goulash communism" of Janos Kadar. Its disintegration began in the 1980s and in 1989/90 transitioned into "market capitalism" that looked like a bourgeois-liberal democracy. Finally,...