Lukács as his disciples the so-called Budapest School provided no economic philosophy foundations in his criticism of bureaucratic socialism. The democratic socialism presented by them remained an ideological construction that is why it could not compete with the capital that was gaining force.

The critique of canonised literature is well known but canonised painting is watched with less sharp critique of its system. The author attempts this as he fits bohe-mianism in the bourgeois culture with a historic angle, and tries to come up with politically unbiased answers how Picasso, Rivera and Kahlo looked at the Stalinist system. He also investigates how the critique of the system could be detected that time and can be now in paintings.

The article is contemplating how rattling at a singing contest is linked to the rebellion against the profit system.

On the book Laszlo Andor: Eltévedt éllovas. Siker és kudarc a rendszerváltó gazdaságpolitikában. [The Lost Forerunner. Success and Failure in the Economic Policy of Transition] Budapest, Napvilag Kiado, 2009