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