Ljudske potrebe i tržišno-političko društvo
HUMAN NEEDS AND MARKET SOCIETY

Summary/Abstract: In the first part of the text, the author interprets Marxist belief that radicalization as a significant dimension of the socialist revolution is possible. From this point, he criticizes the dehumanization of needs in the profit oriented production, and also in the conditions of political domination as a socialist »dictatorship over needs«. In the second part, the author endeavours to prove the thesis that there is no major difference, with regard to humna needs, between »market« and »political« societies. In both cases, the individual is being moulded and the society integraded in a socially unauthentic way. Therefore, »the market« and »politics« mutualy compensate functional shortcomings, even though in some historical periods one or the other are dominant. In this sense, historic possibility of autonomous individual articulation of needs as well as social integration according to the model of free human associations is quite uncertain.

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