Szittyakürt, 1981 (20. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1981-01-01 / 1. szám

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NOV.-DEC., 1980

pose the dialectical process was the best. However, he had other reason to choose dialectics and this was to justify his preconceived conclusion which was nothing else but the inevitable advent of communism. Thus in his dialectical triangle he set up feudalism as thesis, capitalism as anti-thesis and communism as synthesis.

Communism in its final analysis is antihuman and retrogressive, because it returns to the primitive belief of animism, to a primitive collectivism and politically to an ancient system of despotism. It is antihuman not only in its methods while

coercing its ideas, but because it denies two basic human desires: the right to acquisition and the right of self-expression.

After more than a half of a century of costly experiment the promise of dialectics did not realize. Neither more bread nor more freedom seem to be realized. Society is no more classless than it was before, because communism created the “new class” of political bureaucrats who exploit the workers in the name of creating a classless society in a stateless community, where the power of the ruling caste of the few is as arbitrary as ever.

DID THE IMPORTED SYSTEM FIT IN THE RUSSIAN HERITAGE OR NOT?

The answer is yes, because marxism was tailored to Russian conditions to work and be efficient. The fitters were Russians and they did a good job russifying marxism. That the autocratic regime did not soften after the liquidation of anarchy following the 1917 Revolution was due to two reasons. One, that it inevitably slipped back into the institutions which had prevailed

in Muscovite Russia, its only available model. Second, that to the maintenance of the communist system the unlimited use of power is an absolute necessity, because of its inherent antihuman nature. Russified marxism, i.e., bolshevism is the synthesis of marxism and tsarist autocracy, orthodoxy and nationalism and its 19 th century opposing currents.

PURSUING WORLD DOMINATION RUSSIAN CHARACTERISTIC

The ideological nucleus of communism is marxian dialectics which predicts the inevitable advent of communism implying world domination. It was Lenin who laid down that the Communists have a right and duty to extend the system to all countries of the world without exception. The Brezhnev Doctrine states explicitly that the USSR has the right to use its armed forces not only to keep existing communist government in power, but to help communists to take over in places outside the borders of the communist world.

And the Soviets kept busy to support with arms its claim to world domination. Admiral Sergei G. Gorshkov changed the whole mission of the Soviet Navy from a defensive force to an offensive. What are the missions of this force? One is the projection of Russian naval power into the Third World. The other is to balance and, in war, wipe out the

American navy’s unique weapon: its 12 aircraft carriers. The third and equally important mission of the Soviet Navy is to deny acces to minerals for us with its four-ocean fleet.

The psychological isolation stemming from the countless assaults of the past has been reinforced by Communist ideology and the disasters of recent Russian history, includes a strong belief of selfrighteousness and messianism, which already has been evidenced in pre Communist Russia.

Russian society exists in a closed world carefully sealed off from outside influences. It cannot comprehend the notion, that Russia might be a threat to other nations. As a result of their past tribulations, Russians are obsessed with search of national security. Measures taken by others against their threatening posture as defensive steps are viewed by them as agression.

MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN

Russian society is imbued with messianism intent to save the decadent West and with marxian dialectics predicting the inevitable advent of communism implying world domination and as a result of past tribulations it is obsessed with

perpetual search for national security.

All three myths are constituent parts of Russian national identity determining their national destiny.

Against this “metaphysical trinity” carterian governmental diletantism

and opportunism will not suffice. What we need is a new manifest destiny declared by a man with courage, intelligence and integrity, who will negotiate from strength, physical as well as spiritual.

These are only words, but words can create facts or destroy them, as it happaned in the Middle East, where not long ago a shah’s regime was destroyed by virtue of words and a new regime was created, with a “little help” from the Carter administration. Would that shah still be in power, the Iraq-Iran conflict could not have become reality. However, the present administration let down the Shah of Iran helping the Khomeini, because of American weakened defense capabilities.

It is important to note, that Iraq is a long time soviet satallite and the largest arsenal in the Middle East of soviet arms. The conflict was instigated by the Soviets to direct the attention away from the Afghanistan carnage and the Polish Revolution, but above all to increase Soviet influence in the Persian Gulf.

Carter was given another chance to look presidental during the conflict, but he failed abysmally.

From the vantage point of view Reagan harnessed the prevailing trend of thought to realize his political philosophy, but it might be, also, that he obeys the command of the spirit of the age, when with sagacity and resolutness he wants to “make America great again”.

The Hungária Freedom Fighter Movement and the Editors of the Fighter warmly congratulate the young Zoltán Acs for successfully completing his doctoral studies in Economics. The following is an abstract of his doctoral dissertation:

During the past fifty years, two institutional phenomena have developed side by side. These are the growth of large-scale corporations and increasing price inflexibility in the product and factor markets. In order to understand the nature and causes of concentration and price inflexibility, economists have frequently turned to the study of the firm for a feasible explanation of the problems associated with these phenomena.

The central hypothesis of this study is that the growth of largescale corporations has resulted in the formation of two separate, and quite different, markets that exist side by side in the modern capitalist economies. These are the competitive flexprice market and the corporate fixprice market. In competitive flexprice markets price inflexibility can only be explained by the nature of the product and not by the conditions of supply. In corporate fixprice markets with excess capacity, the conditions of supply are perfectly inelastic up to full capacity, and prices are set by a mark-up over direct cost. The mark-up is used to finance increases in planned capacity through the retention of significant portions of corporate profits. Current prices do not reflect demand conditions, rather they reflect the funds required for planned investment expenditures. In these markets price inflexibility becomes a feature of the institutional conditions of production and finance, and not a feature of the product.

The process by which the markup is used to finance industrial investment has been demonstrated in a case study of the steel industry. The results of this study confirm our proposition that prices behave differently in corporate fixprice mar-Price Behavior and the Theory of the Firm in Competitive and Corporate Market

(A Doctoral Dissertation Abstract)

By ZOLTÁN ÁCS, PhD. Assistant Professor of Economics, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont*

kets than in competitive flexprice markets. First, we found that changes in direct costs, wages and raw materials are passed on, in the form of price increases, to the same degree in different stages of the business cycle, with output being more responsive than prices to changes in demand. The coefficient for direct costs was very close to unity. Second, we found that internally generated funds were used by management to further their own interests.

In the late 1950s and 1960s management raised mark-ups, but chose to use these internally generated funds, first to finance efforts aimed at the prevention of takeovers of steel companies, and second to diversify out of steel, thereby leaving the steel industry in a non-competitive position in the 1970s.

In conclusion, the theories of the firm which appear to be most consistent with the steel study, and with the evidence on price behavior presented in Chapter Two, are not the neoclassical theories but the managerial theories of the firm, notably the post-Keynesian theory of Eichner, the behavioral theory of Herbert Simon and the growth theories of Robin Marris. (The Degree was granted by The New School for Social Research, New York, on January 31, 1980.)

*In a recent guidebook to American colleges, Middlebury was listed along with a handful of other colleges and universities as among the most selective in the country.

Middlebury is a liberal arts college in an area of the country which boasts an unusually high concentration of outstanding colleges and universities. In the spectrum of New England colleges, Middlebury is long in history (founded in 1800), well known for the quality of its educational offerings and among the most selective, not only in the area, but in the nation.

There are two classes of Hungarians: The Hungarians who live for the now, and the Hungarians who are willing to work and die for the resurrection of Great Hungary!

Paposi-Jobb President of H.F.M.

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