Külpolitika - A Magyar Külügyi Intézet elméleti-politikai folyóirata - 1985 (12. évfolyam)

1985 / 3. szám - A tanulmányok orosz és angol nyelvű tartalmi kivonata

Pál Berényi:

Socialism-interpretations of the bourgeois political science

The analysis of the stability in a given society acquired focal importance in political science that studies conditions in other states. This is because international relations of forces, —in line with the present interpretation of the term—comprise social and ideological dimensions as well as the economic and military forces. Efforts by the imperialist forces at destabilization call for more exact and more differential ;d researches by political science. The policy of force and the intensification of conservative trends gave a new impetus to criticism of socialism in ttye West, in general, and to the use of this criticism to propaganda purposes, in particular.

The overwhelming majority of western socialism-research, though not exempt from political tendentiousness, deserves critical analysis, on one hand because a considerable part of politologists is making efforts to apply certain scientific criteria, takes into consideration and, in part, accepts the Marxist views, while on the other hand, because the theories

of these politologists contain some adequate observations and analyses that can be utilized. While there is no unision between the different trends, there is a strategic unanimity as regards the necessity to maintain capitalism and to question the validity of scientific socialism and socialism on the basis of this ideology.

The theories ascerting or predicting an overall crisis of socialism are not new, lately however they are not necessarily linked to openly anti-communist views. What is common in them is that they exaggerate the weight of conflicts in the socialist countries, underestimate the subjective factors of crises, globalize local contradictions, transform non- antagonistic contradictions into contradictions of strategic value, make political crisis forecasts and overestimate external crisisgenerating factors. (In this context, the author gives a more detailed survey of the conceptions by Jan Osers, R. F. Byrnes, Ch. Bettelheim, Chenavier, Ellul, Schaff, Vanous, Höh- mann, Robejsek and Wiles and refers to Marxist crisis researches and to conclusions by Fedoseyev and Semyonov.)

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