For the past fifteen years, most of these associations and the journals under their control—though it is said that a few are good—have, by and large (though not all), failed to implement the Party’s policies. They have become bureaucratic and autocratic, shunning contact with workers, peasants, and soldiers, and refraining from reflecting the socialist revolution and construction. In recent years, they have even teetered on the brink of revisionism. Unless they undergo serious reformation, it is inevitable that one day they will turn into organizations like Hungary’s Petőfi Club.