Péter Agárdi: "Having a past such as this to confess"* National culture – leftist tradition, Argumentum Kiadó, Budapest, 2006.

(*Attila József: By the Danube, 1936 translated by John Székely) 

The article discovers "the ocean" in a "drop" – it assumes that the drop contains the ocean also showing its essence. Making it so strongly as the drop that inspired the article dissolves in the "ocean" only showing the broader context. The drop in this case does not exists for itself at all (the aspect of epistemology), because this is the only way to show – in an optimal case – that the "general" is not against the "personal" (Marx) but for him or her (the aspect of social theory).

The soviet diplomat who spent decades in Hungary remembers to János Kádár – a joint document of an attitude towards history, a way of thinking and a historic fact.

State socialism – that invokes more and more historic connotations – is still defending itself in Cuba against the fierce attacks of US capitalism. The article of the leading ideologist of the Cuban regime is both a historic and recent document of ideology and at the same time gives an insight into the recent days of state socialism.

The great capability of the Cuban revolution to survive is unquestionable, it resisted the boycott, the blockade, threatening attacks and also the collapse of state socialism in the Soviet Union and East Europe. Survival is not only simple existence, but – hopefully – also means the development of a sustainable new socio-economic model.