": "Fővárosunk. Irta Táncsics Mihály. Hasonmás kiadás - Budapest Főváros Levéltára forráskiadványai 8. (Budapest, 1976)

On „Our Capital" by Mihály Táncsics

The Cimpromise of 1867 opened the door of his cell, too. In 1869 he even was elected an MP. In the House of Commons he called for the abolition of virilism, the separation of Church and state, and for that land should be given to the landless agricultural labourers. He was elected also chairman of the first socialist workers' association of the country. Owing to disagreements with the internationalist leaders of the General Workers' Association, he resigned his post in 1870, but his relationship with the socialist movement continued up to his death. When his mandate expired, he retired from politics and began to deal with linguistics, plans for the Magyarization of the national minorities, and utopistic systems, wrote his mémoires. The expenses of publishing ruined him, his house was put for auction, and he was reduced to extreme poverty in the last few years of his life. He regarded the peasantry no more as a potenciál power for changing the existing social and economic order, and he considered the workers as a political factor in the far-off future only. The dualist system he condemned up to his death.