The Cooperative Movement in Hungary

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The title of this book promises a review of the Hungarian cooperative movement. Actually, however, it has much more to offer. It not only shows in full detail the functioning of the three branches of cooperation: farmers' cooperatives, collective farming and craftsmen's cooperatives, their numerical results, their role in Hungarian agriculture and their prospects of future development; it not only reveals frankly the mistakes committed in the course of socialist transformation, the difficulties that occurred and the problems still awaiting solution. Beside drawing a faithful and reliable picture of the cooperative movement in Hungary, the author, of whom this is already the second book on cooperatives, presents a penetrating and scholarly analysis of the most topical theoretical questions of the international cooperative movement.
In the chapter dealing with questions of principle the author discusses in detail, and analyses the long-debated but still very timely problems of... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The title of this book promises a review of the Hungarian cooperative movement. Actually, however, it has much more to offer. It not only shows in full detail the functioning of the three branches of cooperation: farmers' cooperatives, collective farming and craftsmen's cooperatives, their numerical results, their role in Hungarian agriculture and their prospects of future development; it not only reveals frankly the mistakes committed in the course of socialist transformation, the difficulties that occurred and the problems still awaiting solution. Beside drawing a faithful and reliable picture of the cooperative movement in Hungary, the author, of whom this is already the second book on cooperatives, presents a penetrating and scholarly analysis of the most topical theoretical questions of the international cooperative movement.
In the chapter dealing with questions of principle the author discusses in detail, and analyses the long-debated but still very timely problems of cooperative theory; the concept of the "genuine" coopera-
tive, the validity of the often-mentioned Rochdale principles, the problems of political neutrality, the question of the international relations of the cooperatives, etc. With convincing arguments the author explains the nature of a number of bourgeois cooperative theories, which are in many respects debatable and cannot be imconditionally supported by the facts of modern social and economic development.
Rezső Nyers's book, therefore, is a valuable produrt of economic literature, and at the same time of Marxist-Leninist cooperative theory; it is not only instructive for those dealing with cooperative theory or practice, but may be of interest to people who wish to become acquainted with the present state of the Hungarian economy, its relationships with the international cooperative movement, and the possibilities of development.
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