Fraternity-Testvériség, 1962 (40. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1962-02-01 / 2. szám

FRATERNITY

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contrast between words and deeds” — he wrote — “between principles and their realization is rocking the foundation of our people’s democracy, our society and our party. This contrast, of which people are becoming more and more

aware, is leading to dissension and the loss of

faith among the masses, who hope for a better, happier and more peaceful life. The working people are unable to reconcile the rapid progress of socialism with the deterioration or at least the stagnation of their living standard.

The people cannot understand how it is that the greater results they achieve in the economic, political, social and cultural field, the greater their burdens become.”

But his sharpest criticism came in his discussion of the degeneration of power. “The

People’s Democracy” — he wrote -— “as a type of dictatorship of the proletariat, in which the power is exercised by the working class, the workers and the peasantry, is obviously replaced by a Party dictatorship which does not rely on Party membership, but relies on a personal dictatorship and attempts to make the Party apparatus, and through it the Party membership, a mere tool of this dictatorship. Its power is not permeated by the spirit of socialism or democracy, but by a Bonapartist, autocratic spirit.”

Nagy’s list of grievances was long, but far from complete. As a Communist he did not recognize the grievances of multitudes, who were deprived of their right to organize and support opposition parties. But analyzing the regime’s foreign policies in view of the Bandung principles, which were hailed by the Soviet leaders, Nagy had this to say:

“The inner tension of Hungary, which is chiefly political, is caused by the fact that the leadership is opposing the ideals of national independence, sovereignty and equality, as well