This time, the reader has the opportunity to become acquainted with the documents of the Czechoslovak Left Wing Alternative movement drawn up in late 1989 which in many ways resemble the goals of the Hungarian Left Wing Alternative Association.
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Selected bibliography proposed to the history of the “Russian model”
Statistics about the Soviet Union
Among the articles, we insterted some useful tables, which are recommended to our readers in order to help them in getting an overview about the Soviert-Russian development.
The actuality of Berdaiev
Berdiaiev's book, as it can be termed as a prophesy concerning many elements of the Russian model, has become very popular among Hungarian readers interested in political sciences. The reviewer – while acknowledging a number of merits of Berdiaiev's work, underlining many of his productive ideas (from the mutual Utopia of the opposition of Slavofil-Western ideas, to the role of the anarchic-egalitarian tradition, cultural backwardness, the far too abstract handling of the proletariate by Russian marxism etc.)- calls the attention to the falsifications of the study. This especially applies to those points where today Stalinism is washed together with bolshevism and certain trends of bolshevism with the whole of bolshevism. Finally, he calls Berdiaiev himself to testify and decide that what has been realised or what failed in the Soviet Union was not socialism.
Who should be the owner?
Round table discussion about privatisation, the possibilities of workers' ownership. The participants of the discussion are the manager who wants to have an increasing scope of activities, the banking expert who defends monetary interference and an apostle of whe workers' ownership. The discussion is at the same time the presentation of three different concepts of socialism: one, which wants to refine capitalisation with welfare mechanisms preventing impoverishment, two, which accepts the turn towards capitalism as something bad, which however, is a necessary precondition of true socialism and three, which wants to present elements of post-capitalist economy and social organisation with workers'ownership.