A vállalat dolgozója – a társadalom vállalata. Vállalati dolgozó és vállalati közösség a hetvenes évek tudományos ideológiájában
The Worker of the Company – the Company of Society: The Worker and the Community of Company in the Scientific Ideology of the 1970s

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses the different layers of the meaning of the concept of socialist worker and socialist company, as they emerged in ideological and scientific discourses in 1970s Hungary, citing ideological resolutions of the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party, academic papers, monographs and research records, as well as ideological discussions of the main party periodical. The concept of worker, as one of the main socio-political concepts of “existing socialism”, carried a multifaceted meaning in the ideology of the socialist Kádár regime. The worker was the general owner of the means of production, as well as the agent of this production. Ideologically speaking, the worker of the socialist system appeared as a self-governing and self-conscious participant in the life of the company, and a member of the ruling class of socialist society. The over-determination of the concept of this ideal social actor involved the multiplication of the functions of the socialist company. Thus, besides being the place of production process, the socialist company ideologically emerged as the field of workplace democracy as well as the sphere of the workers’ self-determination and communal life. This image of the socialist company fits into the macro-ideological system of Soviet “developed socialism”, the last long-range ideological experiment of state socialisms.

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