Category Archives: Periodical
Success and difficulties of socialdemocracy from a historic point of view
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
Socialdemocrats and Hungary’s modernisation
The author describes the history of the Hungarian social democracy from the beginning to the "party unification" with special regard to the organisation, the programme, the election results of the party, and its attitude towards the land and the national questions.
Lenin’s figure in the public culture in the 20s
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.
Involuntary Socialism? – Cultural policy in capitalism
The noted music critic (chairman of the friendship circle of our paper) points out how alienation is linked with the decrease of cultural competence. He describes convincing cases to illustrate how does the imperialism of the multinationals subordinate culture to themselves. He finds contrary examples in the social democratic cultural practice. He draws the conclusion that without changing the basis of the social form only the "suffering can be alleviated".