Project Gutenberg 2025-06-13 Public domain in the USA. 114 Ottlik, László 1895 1945 Ottlik, Laszlo A marxizmus társadalomelmélete : $b Elméleti kritika és történelmi tanulságok $aBudapest :$bFranklin-Társulat, $c1922. Kultura és tudomány Albert László from page images generously made available by the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences "A marxizmus társadalomelmélete : Elméleti kritika és történelmi tanulságok" by Ottlik László is a scholarly treatise written in the early 20th century. The work offers a rigorous critique of Marxist social theory—especially its claims to scientific inevitability and its doctrine of historical materialism—paired with reflections drawn from recent history. It interrogates the logical, methodological, and ethical premises behind socialist prophecy and the notion of a predetermined communist future. The opening of the treatise explains why Marxism retains mass appeal despite decades of criticism, attributing its power to material promises, moral indignation at inequality, and quasi-religious belief, while arguing that prior critiques miss the core fatalistic “scientific” prediction. It then presents Marx’s famous forecast of capital concentration and the “expropriation of the expropriators,” situates it in the age of positivism and evolutionism, and contends that exact social prediction is impossible unless one illegitimately excludes the conscious human factor. The author defends the stability of human moral nature against socialist rationalism, arguing that utopian schemes ignore enduring psychological realities. He next dissects “historical materialism,” quoting Marx’s preface, and claims it is misnamed economism and, in effect, fatalism; he faults the neglect of psychology, the undefined notion of “class,” and dialectical vagueness. Citing Engels’s later letters that retreat to “interaction” among factors, he argues the original one-way determination collapses, and notes that serious historians had long integrated economic causes (e.g., readings of Rome’s decline). The section concludes by tracing the prophecy’s roots to Hegel’s “negation of the negation” and the utopia of a marketless society, exposing logical gaps (such as those highlighted by Oppenheimer) and emphasizing that collapse does not entail communism; the author then sets up three logical paths for capitalism’s future to examine next. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20250611114247ottlik 1922 hu Reading ease score: 52.0 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. hu Socialism Communism HX Text Category: Philosophy & Ethics Category: Sociology Category: Politics Category: Economics 290340 2025-07-30T07:27:22.131572 text/html 269668 2025-06-13T12:39:07 text/html 202529 2025-07-30T07:27:30.730515 application/epub+zip 201116 2025-07-30T07:27:25.809523 application/epub+zip 178337 2025-07-30T07:27:24.474565 application/epub+zip 405797 2025-07-30T07:27:34.044491 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 385556 2025-07-30T07:27:29.852538 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 244166 2025-07-30T07:27:21.479577 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 224250 2025-06-13T12:39:07 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 13736 2025-07-30T07:27:34.217479 application/rdf+xml 17335 2025-07-30T07:27:25.001534 image/jpeg 3875 2025-07-30T07:27:24.747541 image/jpeg 192508 2025-07-30T07:27:22.151598 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog eo.wikipedia