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cerned generations of young people which found themselves in a chasm between socialist ideals, which society implanted in them, and reality, where only children of affluent parents can be educated, while the problem of massive unemployment is solved by stimulating people to search for work in the capitalist west. Beside, that, we must not forget that the time our press was discussing the possibilities of creat-ing shareholder’s enterprises, in which citizens would be able to invest their savings with much morę enthusiasm and confidence than in banks. When to all of this is added the unsettied situation at many universities, then it is no wonder that students openly asked questions about the perspectives of our country as a socialist society. That this was, before anything else, a spontaneous revolt against existing de-formations and not a pro-eastern or pro-centralisticly inspired and oriented political adventure is confirmed by the circumstances in which this same student group supported the oppressed Polish and Czechoslovakian students and professors, for which they also came into conflict with our government.

That this analysis is superficial is a totally justified observation because it is not based on observing the changes of the material/pro-ductive foundations of life without which it is difficult to discern what is haopening in the cultural and political sphere. That is exactly what we had in mind when we said that the subject of our entire ob-servations must be put in the context of the whole of our social dev-elopment. Namely, it is unąuestionable that many of the above menti-oned deformations are closely related with the changes in economic policy. Therefore it would be necessary to tracę these relations and research to what degree the dynamics of our economic growth has caused certain effects by its objective current. Is the transition to an intensive economy, which was dictated by the need for modernization in industry but which is being realized in our country in the frame-work of self-managing decentralization on the basis of money/goods relationship, such that it, by its intrinsic character, causes all the deformations in question or do many of these problems become compre-hensible only after we have taken into consideration the interests and contradictions of those forces that act in its framework? This is an important question because until we answer it we will not understand whether and to what degree the student revolt is aimed against the economic program, or do the students fundamentally accept the program but attack the forces that are deforming the program. This is one of the points around which many arguments arose during the confrontation.

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So that the above mentioned questions could be meaningfully posed a stratified framework is necessary to enable us to put the basie forces of our society into functionning relationships so that we can study them. The viewpoint that the category »working people« is useful when it would include all people who work in the socialist sector (enterprises which are not privately owned) from the worker to the director and administrator, has proved illusory after many work-

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