ABSTRACT
Critics said that, in addition to holding the CC responsible for Hungary's situation, the statement should also have mentioned the Politburo. While approving of the self-critical tone in which the CC's draft had evaluated the situation in Hungary, party members said that the evaluation had not gone deep enough or been sufficiently thorough or sincere. Under Janos Kadar, Hungary gained experience in implementing economic reforms by replacing the Stalinist system of a strictly centralized, planned economy with one based on planning according to economic indicators and on the stimulation of market forces. The National Assembly should enact legislation and oversee the government, but Karoly Grosz said that parliamentary rule was infeasible in Hungary. Kadar s best-known achievement was the gradual, cautious reform of Hungary's economic management system, launched in January 1968. Kadarism was essentially a working compromise between the party and society that arose out of the national trauma of 1956 and was reinforced by Kadar's own values.
