Hungarian Marxist philosopher, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Sussex. He held the Chair of Philosophy at Sussex for fifteen years and was earlier Professor of Philosophy and Social Science for four years at York University.
Background
Coming from a working-class family, raised by his mother. He started working in the factory at the age of twelve, having forged his birth certificate (minimum age for admission to employment was sixteen years old). The young worker was first exposed to international labor exploitation and inequality in pay between men and women - his friends, adult workers, working in the company of a foreign owner (Radio Factory Standard), received more than his mother, who worked at the Hungarian employer.
Career
Meszaros was able to do his studies only after the Second World War and the introduction of free education. Was a member of the Budapest school - Gyorgy Lukacs, an assistant at the Institute of Aesthetics, University of Budapest, where in 1954 he defended his doctoral thesis. In 1956, he became managing editor of the journal "Thinking» («Eszmélet»), who had Marxist and anti-Stalinist orientation. After the defeat of the Hungarian uprising in 1956 and the Soviet invasion was forced to leave the country. In exile, he lived first in Italy, where he taught at the University of Turin, and later in the UK, where he worked at the University of St. Andrews (Scotland) and the University of Sussex (England).