Why "Dictatorship over Needs" is Not Socialism?
Why "Dictatorship over Needs" is Not Socialism?

Summary/Abstract: The appearance of Dictatorship Over Needs, as a collective production of outstanding representatives of the "Budapest School," has manifold meanings among which I shall mention only the following: 1. it affirms the capacity of a critical Marxist theory to explain the phenomenon of "really existing socialism"; 2. it also proves the validity of an anthropological approach within Marxist critical theory which explains economic and political, as well as ideological, aspects of the societies in question in terms of the consequences they exert upon the real life and free development of society's members; and 3. its claims as a critical reconsideration of the socialist nature of these societies from the point of view of an authentic democratic socialism.

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