Born in Pecs, 21 March 1932 died in Budapest, 17 November 1977.

The article describes the social activities of Christian communities from the 1st to 4th Centuries. The author examines the practical aspects of these activities, although he also outlines their ethical-ideological motivations.

Having studied bourgeois political economy, Marx concluded that facts can be vell exploited in order to hide the meaning of facts. Behind the phrases referring to facts day and night, we have to discover the real conditions. That requires a general social theory.

The author presents how in the early 1930s the social doctrines of the churches were represented in the Hungarian catholic press. From the quotations and analysis it will be apparent that the church saw clearly the fatal conflict arising betwen capital and labour, the most dreadful consequence of which was rise of fascism.

For decades after his death, Karl Marx's works were not allowed to enter the official academia. The picture changed in the 1930s when the world economic crisis underminded the credibility of neoclassical economics. Keynes' work shows a number of parallel with Marxian economic thought and even mainstream explanation of capitalist economy includes some unintended similarities to Das Kapital.