The author argues that there were no real leftist alternatives for the state socialism in the 1980s. According to him, those discussions only displayed civil models of market economy and democracy as an alternative to the actual system.

According to the author, state socialism is only a station in the transition from pseudo-feudalism to capitalism, and as a consequence of this, the change of system was enforced by the interest of the organic capitalist development.

Virtual round table discussion on the reports of Hungarian delegates who participated at the Forum.

Editors: Ivan Bajomi and Andras Lanyi (university ELTE)