A Hungarian Connection: Karl Polanyi’s Influence on the Budapest School
A Hungarian Connection: Karl Polanyi’s Influence on the Budapest School
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匈牙利的联系:卡尔波兰尼对布达佩斯学派的影响
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10.1080/00213624.1987.11504614
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1987
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Doug Brown
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Doug Brown
This article examines the relationship between two generations of Hungarian social theorists. In theorizing models of democratic socialism, this relationship implies a potential convergence between Eastern European Marxists and institutionalists in the West. The major point of convergence is the emerging recognition that a democratic socialist society necessitates the existence of a mixed economy, in which there exists not only separate spheres of state and economy, but, moreover, planning and markets, as well as both public and private ownership. Stated differently, there is growing recognition that the defining feature of a democratic socialist society is not public ownership, the abolition of private property, nor even the absence of alienation. It is the right of equal participation in the processes of social decision-making, or what Mihailo Markovic calls the right of equal self-determination [Markovic 1982]. The best means of achieving this right, which today exists as a goal, is to democratize the Western mixed economies through a comprehensive series of radical reforms. Such a package of reforms would transform the capitalist mixed economy into what we can call a" radical democratic" mixed economy. It means taking formal democracy one step further by democratizing capitalism's stratified distribution of power over decision-making mechanisms. This article traces how a contemporary generation of Hungarian, dis-