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Zoltán Novák: The Budapest Reform Circle of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party – the role of the reform circle movement in the change of regime in Hungary

The problems and the real economic and social structure of the village, and the reasons and trends of its today almost catastrophic situation are mostly unknown to the leftist readers and political movements. Without conscious structural changes the anachronistic agriculture and the fragmented farm structure formed on the ruins of the co-operative system that was destroyed after the change of regime, continue to be the certain sources of poverty and backwardness.

After the change of regime, the political elite started a new division of land by ignoring any domestic and international trend. The surpassed alternative of the "Hungarian farmer" promised and promises no prospects for the country and the villages. Unfortunately, it is not the inventors who have to pay for this Don Quijotic idea.

For about two decades there is little difference between the social democratic parties and the social liberals in the decisive questions of economy and social politics. Therefore it can be internationally important that in Germany a new political formation, the Linkspartei came to the fore. This significant experiment led by the experienced and charismatic politicians, Gregor Gysi and Oskar Lafontaine can re-arrange the political fragmentation in Germany.