In our new series the author review a series of pieces of thought from the 19th century, especially from Marxism juxtaposing them with the current situation.

The author starts out from the social democratic features and inclinations of the Kadar system which is in a way connected with our previous issue. Then he describes briefly the history of social democracy from the point of view of the efforts of the working class to get to power, ranging from the move­ment at the end of the last century starting out from the principle of mixed ownership, the Bernstein-Kautsky controversy about the issue of compro­mise to the balking of the movement during fascism and

Lenin as the so called symbolic figure of "socialism" invited very diverse emotions during history. Through highly specific documents, reports on the atmosphere of the time, the article shows how Lenin and the Bolshevik leader­ship were seen by masses of people in the 1920s.