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• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05504418
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: March 8, 2023
• Document Release Date: September 24, 2019
• Case Number: F-2018-00903
• Publication Date: December 19, 1957

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--"SORBA" ON REVISIONIST CHARGES AGAINST LUKACS
MUNICH, DECEMBER 16 --
UNDER THE TITLE "LUKACS
ACCUSED OF REVISIONISM", "BORBA" OF DECEMBER 14 CARRIED A SUMMARY
OF AN ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN THE HUNGARIAN CF THEORETICAL PERIODICAL
"TARSADALMI SZEMLE" OF DEC. 13.
"BORBA" SAID THAT THE HUNGARIAN PAPER PUBLISHED "A SHARPLY FOR-
MULATED CRITICISM OF THE THEORETICAL-POLITICAL AND EITERARTVIEWS
OF THE WELL-KNOWN HUNGARIAN WRITER AND THEORETICIAN, GYORGY LUKACS."
"BORBA" CONTINUED: "IN AN ARTICLE SIGNED BY JOZSEF SZIGETI,
DEPUTY-MINISTER OF EDUCATION, GYORGY LUKACS IS ACCUSED OF REVISIONSIM,
OF ANTI-MARXIST ATTITUDE, OF TAKING A WRONG STAND DURING THE
OCTOBER 1956 EVENTS AND OF SPREADING ANTI-LENINIST VIEWS.
"AFTER HAVING ACCUSED LUKACS OF CONTRIBUTING GREATLY TO THE
SPREADING OF THE 'UNSCIENTIFIC TERM "STALINISM" IN HUNGARY',
JOZSEF SZIGETI ADDED THAT 'THE BASIS OF LUKACS' MISTAKES SHOULD
BE SOUGHT IN THE FACT THAT HE HAS DIFFERENTIATED THE TERM
"LENINISM" FROM "LENINIST METHODS" AND TREATS METHODS AS SOMETHING
ABSOLUTE IN CONTRAST TO THEORY'. -
"TAKING THIS AS ASTARTING POINT", "BORBA" CONTINUED, "SZIGETI'S
ARTICLE CLAIMS THAT LUKACS HAD POINTED OUT 'A NON-EXISTENT DANGER
ARISING FROM A DOGMATIC INTERPRETATION F LENIN; LUKACS CLAIMED
THAT CONSISTENT ADVOCACY OF THE ESSENCE OF LENIN'S THEORIES WOULD
HAVE MEANT FOR HIM (I.E. FOR LUKACS - ED.) SECTARIANISM AND
DOGMATISM'."
"BORBA" SAID THAT "SZIGETI CONTESTS THE VALUE OF LUKACS'
LOGIC AND CLAIMS THAT THIS LOGIC IS SUPERFICIAL AND IS NOT THE
LOGIC OF THE CLASS STRUGGLE."
ACCORDING TO "BORBA" SZIGETI SAID IN HIS ARTICLE THE FOLLOWING:
"LUKACS' VIEWS WERE CLOSE TO THE VIEWSOF THE IMRE NAGY GOUOP,
WHICH WAS EVEN THEN AN ORGANIZED ONE. THIS GROUP IMPLEMENTED THE
DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLE OF PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCE EVEN IN THE RELATIONS
BETWEEN SOCIALIST COUNTRIES AND THEREBY CONTESTED THE PRINCIPLE
OF PROLETARIAN INTERNATIONALISM AS A BASIS FOR RELATIONS BETWEEN
SOCIALIST COUNTRIES".
"BORBA" CONTINUED': "AFTER STRESSING HIS OWN DISAGREEMENTS WITH
LUKACS' VIEWS IN OTHER FIELDS, ESPECIALLY WITH LUKACS' ASSERTION
THAT SOCIALIST REALISM IN LITERATURE HAS PRIMARILY BEEN THE RESULT
OF ADMINISTRATIVE INTERFERENCE IN LITERATURE RATHER THAN OF FRUIT-
FUL DISCUSSIONS, SZIGETI -- REFERRING TO JOZSEF REVAI -- SAID THAT
AS EARLY AS THE PERIOD 1949/1950 IT WAS POSSIBLE TO SEE, ALTHOUGH
DIMLY, THE BASIC PREMISES OF LUKACS' VIEWS".
SZIGETI CONCLUDED HIS ARTICLE AS FOLLOW: "WHATEVER MAY HAPPEN
IT SHOULD BE STRESSED THAT LUKACS, IN SPITE OF HIS WRONG GENERAL
LINE, HAS DONE WORK OF INDISPUTABLE VALUE, HOWEVER, HIS WRONG
GENERAL LINE AND THEORETICAL ERRORS SHOULD BE CRITICIZED IN A
MUCH SHARPER WAY AND MORE THOROUGHLY THAN EVER BEFORE. LUKACS'
VIEWS SHOULD BE ERADICATED AS ANTI-MARXIST AND ANTI-LENINIST".
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