This is indeed time for a hard rethinking. Human history has its both positive and negatives a as the issues of human rights and freedom have amply demonstrated. We have been undergoing great losses in ideological warfare, not to say of military adventures involved. Compromise could at best produce the Cold War only at the expense of human value and freedom on both sides. What would then be solution to"necessary corrections mentioned above? Maybe what is really needed is not just an artificial compromise, but a kind of synthesis starting with capitalism without capital letter. Lately, there has been so much talk about human- istic capitalism which, in contrast to current industrial ism, would take care of both human freedom and natural sustainability. Above all, one must not forget that real solution and answer lies with people themselves. It is the question as to how a synthosis, not separation, oi political and economic rights can be made, in orde that right to and self-determination coul ultimately materialize