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sides, the proninenoe accorded to and the exaggeratian of the econcmic difficulties and the cxmoanitantly developing social tensions, the oountry's "crisis situation", and the enphasis abcut the inappropriateness of the leadership of the party and State in ccnnection to solving these problems. La tel y, bút especially after the 13th congress, the illeged publications have devoted a gneat deal of attention to "analyzing" the "grcups" and the "pcwer balance" within the party.

Of centied importance in the efforts of the radical bourgeois grouping is the disereditation of the political system, sucoesses, and intemational prestige of the Hungárián People's Republic. They explain their cwn ability to carry out activities in that because the "system" needs western eredits "it must continuously prove its liberal aspect" and therefore tóiérates their activities.

The attempts of the radical bourgeois grouping to create oontacts vith the working eláss have proved unsuocessful. Nor have their efforts made in the interests of expanding their intellectual basis met with significant suocess. They did nőt succeed in winning over a signal inportant intellectual group; however, they did succeed in expanding their influenoe over the illegal group called "Duna Kor".

The "hard core" of the radical bourgeois grouping today is still ccnposed of a few dozen people, and their direct influence extends to a few hundred individuals—intellectual s in the the humanities and sociology and to specific cincies of studerrts in large Budapest universities.

2. The unique aspect of the radical nationalist or national trend which is actually a loose association of writers is nőt given by its political program—which it does nőt actually even have—bút by the fact that the group's members piacé the fate of the Hungarians living outside the oountry above cill other issues. According to their undeliniated political situation analysis the social changes of the pást decades and the one-sided "ecanooentric" policy has caused the dismantling of the national as well as the traditional ethical values; the policies conducted since 1956 have led to the ethical disintegration of Hungárián society. They condemn the govemment, above all, fór its neglect of the so-called issues of national destiny; **in ccnnection with the deteriorating circumstances of Hungarians living outside the country they have charged the policies of the party and govemment with "criminal neglect". They do nőt unequivocally reject the ideological system of socialism, bút they present the socialist relations and institutions which have developed in Hungary as being forced on the nation frem outside, and as a system alien to it.

The radical national trend does nőt conduct organized political activities other than those carried out jointly with the radical bourgeois group; it does nőt have and organizational framework, and fór that matter, it has, until recently, kept its distance írom the "radical bourgeois "organizaticns" as well as fren the activity of disseminating illegal publications. To spread their views they have primarily attenpted to use rural cultural institutions and sane of the rural literary joumals, and the people's college movements. Their influence is primarily strong in the Hungárián Writers' Association and the Attila József Cincié, bút it alsó extends to the liberal árts divisicn of universities, to the editorial boards of rural literary joumals and to the intellectual gnoups surrounding around them, and alsó to a segment of pedagoues—primarily the literature and history teachers—and aduit educators working in rural cul tural oenters. The potential base of the radical national trend is far larger—because of the heightened interest teward the naticnal j pcaio—than the radical bourgeois grouping' s; hcwever, they too were unable to nőve inportant intellectual groups to action.

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