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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.

No. 4 | (Winter 1989)

Table of contents
  1. Szabó András György : Marx and state socialism – Louis Blanc-Rodbertus-Lassalle-Hyndman
  2. Krausz Tamás : The Mensheviks and socialism – in the light of documents
  3. Urban Herlitz : Trends of social devlopment and socialism
  4. Szigeti Péter : Capitalism – late capitalism (lessons from a study)
  5. Theses of the Menshevik party (10 April 1920)
  6. Porosz Tibor : Theses about Stalinism
  7. Slemmer László : An age of humanistic capital?
  8. Tütő László : A serving state and a “freely floating” government
  9. Liberalism
  10. Worker
  11. Saul Landau : The masters of all we know
  12. alfa : Remarks to a book
  13. Kapitány Ágnes, Kapitány Gábor : Where do you go Eastern Europe?