Category Archives: Former issues

Jozsef Mindszenty – a cardinal-politician

Jozsef Mindszenty (born Pehm) was a most controversial figure of the 20th century Hungarian history. As a local priest of Zalaegerszeg for a quarter of a century, and later as the bishop of Veszprem, even later, and most importantly as the cardinal of Eszregom, and finally as a political emigrant, he did his best to defend the semi-feudalistic social system of which time had gone.

Fact and theory

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.