Hungarian Revolution of 1956

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Claude Lefort's updated analysis of the Hungarian Revolution. This piece from 1976 is a significant departure from Lefort's writing for Socialisme ou Barbarie in 1957. For comparison, the earlier piece, The Hungarian Insurrection, can be found in the Socialisme ou Barbarie Anthology, pp. 216-235. In this later analysis, Lefort argues that the Hungarian Workers' Councils did not want to replicate the domination of…

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It's not institutions

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