Mihaly Vajdy teoria krytyczna faszyzmu. Przyczynek do historii węgierskiego rewizjonizmu marksistowskiego
Critical theory of fascism by Mihaly Vajda. Contribution to the history of Hungarian Marxist revisionism

Summary/Abstract: Marxist revisionism in Hungary has typically been associated with Gyorgy Lukács and the so-called “Budapest school” which he established in late 1960s alongside Agnes Heller, Ferenc Feher, Gyorgy Markus and Mihaly Vajda. Against the backdrop of the considerable achievements of this school, strictly focused around Marxist issues, several of Vajda’s texts devoted to European fascism stand out. In this article, the question is asked whether (and in what sense) these texts belong to the revisionist work of the Budapest school (or broader, to Hungarian Marxism-revisionism as such). Is there also a theory in this case which, under a layer of historico-philosophical analysis, contains a certain political message? The article consists of four parts. The first part presents the general picture of the phenomenon of Eastern European Marxist revisionism, and the second part briefly discusses revisionism in the version exercised by the Budapest school. Part three deals with the reconstruction of the main problematic themes of Vajda’s fascism theory, and part four refers directly to the question of the potentially revisionist dimension of this theory.

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