https://m2.mtmt.hu/ hun 2026-05-01 14:28 BookChapter 36879475 APPROVED true 0 false 2026-02-13T14:05:26.689+0000 2026-02-13T13:59:52.881+0000 2026-01-19T10:38:58.276+0000 true 10012385 Mester Béla /api/author/10012385 Author true 10012385 2026-02-13T14:00:56.315+0000 2026-02-13T14:00:56.315+0000 true true true 25 25 /api/publicationtype/25 PublicationType 2 true 25 BookChapter true 10000303 Study true 25 25 /api/publicationtype/25 PublicationType 2 true 25 BookChapter /api/subtype/10000303 Szaktanulmány SubType 219 true 10000303 true 1 /api/category/1 Category true 1 Mester, Béla Az ázsiai termelési mód gondolatának jelentősége a magyar marxista gondolkodásban – túl a sinológián 17 33 17 17 2025 Béla Mester Significance of the Idea of the Asiatic Mode of Production in the Thought of Hungarian Marxists – Beyond Sinology Asiatic mode of production was always a so-called essentially contested concept in the internal debates of the Marxist philosophy of history. It had a significant impact out of the Marxism, as well, mainly within the circle of the historians whose fields are the early civilisations described by this term, by several Marxists. This concept wanted to confirm both the historical plausibility and actual political significance of the Marxian theory of social forms, putting a new one between the tribal and antique forms. By the upholders of this idea, the new term help us in the understanding of the early civilisations and usable in the strategic thinking of the Marxist movements out of the European culture. Within the Hungarian Marxism, the term of Asiatic mode of production was used mainly in the context of the Chinese history and culture, by sinologists (e.g. Ferenc Tőkei based significant conclusions in the literary history and theory of genres, based on this term). On the one hand, the hard-core Stalinists attacked the concept of the Asiatic mode of production, but they had not intellectually interesting arguments. On the other hand, historians who were out of the frames of Marxism, however, formulated critiques of this term (in Hungary, we should mention the name of Géza Komoróczy), the core of their critique was not the concept of the Asiatic mode of production in itself, but the whole of the Marxian theory of social forms. The internal controversy amongst the non-orthodox Marxists logically offered a possibility of the better understanding of present and future, beyond the understanding of the past of the humanity. By the introduction of the Asiatic mode of production shows the transition from the tribal to the antique form as a long, difficult process with despotic regimes. Continuation of the concept within the scheme of the Hegelian-Marxian helix of progress means that the transition from the class societies to communism, what is the actually existing socialism will be a similarly long, difficult process with despotic political tendencies. The idea of the Asiatic mode of production became able for a systematic critique within the frames of the Marxism, with this background. Keywords: actually existing socialism, Asiatic mode of production, early civilisations, Ferenc Tőkei, Géza Komoróczy, Karl Marx, Marxian theory of social forms Funding 2062193 /api/funding/2062193 false true true true 2026 true false true false true false GOLD 2026-02-13 true http://real.mtak.hu/234072 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 false false false false 2026-04-19T09:38:58.715+0000 Filozófiai Kutatóintézet (ELTE / HTK) 1 13 1 1 0 true 176 true 10001 Hungarian /api/language/10001 Magyar Language true 1 false true 10618 true 10016 /api/country/10016 Country true 12 /api/city/10618 City true 1141025 /api/publication/36879448 true true 23 23 /api/publicationtype/23 PublicationType 3 true 23 Book Filozófiai hatástörténet és kritika II. 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