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possible. For although it is a social system that came into being with
a promise to provide for life, in its grim reality it has been efficient
only in building an industry for death.
This account would be incomplete without a reference to ajoint
book by Ferenc Feher, Agnes Heller and Gyorgy Markus,
Dictator–
ship Over Needs
(1983). These Lukacs students no longer share their
teacher's illusions. Their book provides a radical critique and by far
the most original and persuasive account of what has been called
"presently existing socialism" in Eastern Europe .
