The State and Socialism: Political Essays

by Vajda, Mihaly

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Book description: London, England, U.K.: Allison & Busby, 1981. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. This book contains the political and theoretical writings of one of Hungary's most prominent dissident intellectuals; Vajda, student of Georg Lukacs, held a post at the Philosophical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences until he was expelled from the Academy and the Communist Party; this book begins with a discussion of the shortcomings of the ideas of Korsch and Lukacs about class consciousness in terms of events in Eastern Europe; the title essay illuminates the contrast between Marx's view of the power-structure of socialism and that of the actually existing socialist countries; several of the essays debate with other dissidents such as Bahro, Rakovski, Konrad, and Szelenyi; finally there is a discussion of the nature of the system in various Eastern European countries (white cover with red & black lettering, titles of the essays on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy)

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