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ANDREA PETŐ not made in Hungary, the “patriarchal bargain” the loyalty to men as a key to self fulfilment was replaced by “party bargain”: the loyalty to the MSZP which the women were unable neither to modernize nor to transform. As it is often the case with simulacrums. Returning the issue of simulacrum which frames my contribution to this volume honoring Professor Karoly Bard, we cannot expect a popular impact of social democracy in the future if the internationalism and universalism, the two key corner stones of social democratic movement will not be reconceptualised This new start should lead to the formation of a new language and a new self-definition. I would not go as far as Tony Judt claiming that “social democracy” as a term has not relevance (everybody is a democrat nowadays and social is a too wide concept to attract anybody). Therefore, what remained for him is the “fear” from worst to come as a mobilization force. In that case we can only hope that parties claiming social democracy as a heritage will learn from the past mistakes and reconsider its position to difference. Otherwise social democracy together with progressive politics really becomes a vanishing simulacrum in a land “inhabited by animals and beggars”. BIBLIOGRAPHY Aranyossl, Magda, Lázadó asszonyok. A magyar nőmunkásmozgalom története 1867-1919, Budapest, Kossuth, 1963. JupT, Tony, What is Living and What is Dead in Social Democracy?, The New York Review of Books 56 (2009), No. 20. https://www.nybooks.com/ articles/2009/12/17/what-is-living-and-what-is-dead-in-social-democrac/ last accessed on 1 December, 2021 Kovács, M. Mária, A magyar feminizmus korszakfordulója, Café Bábel 4 (1994), 179-184. NIKOLCHINA, Miglena, The Seminar: Mode d’emploi Impure Spaces in the Light of Late Totalitarianism, Differences — a Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 13 (2002), 96-127. PETÖ Andrea - SZAPOR Judit, Women and the Alternative Public Sphere: toward a Redefinition of Women's Activism and the Separate Spheres in East Central Europe, NORA, Nordic Journal of Women's Studies 12 (2004), 172-182. PETO, Andrea, À Missing Piece? How Women in the Communist Nomeclature are not Remembering, East European Politics and Society 16 (2003), 948-958. PETÖ, Andrea, Anti-Modernist Political Thoughts on Motherhood in Europe in a Historical Perspective, in Heike Kahlert — Ernst Waltraud (eds.), Reframing Demographic Change in Europe. Perspectives on Gender and Welfare State Transformations (Focus Gender), Band 11. Berlin, Lit Verlag, 2010, 189-201. + 418 *
