He translated several products of Marxist literature, including several works by Marx, Engels, and August Bebel, into Hungarian.
During the period of the Soviet Republic, he served as the People's Commissioner for Labor and Welfare of the Revolutionary Governing Council.
The leadership of the united party and at the same time the Budapest Central Revolutionary Workers' and Military Council.
His social policy proposals included workers' insurance, the nationalization of pension associations, state benefits for orphans and widows, but also the expropriation of the homes of the rich for the benefit of families with many children and, as an atheist, the abolition of religious teachings in schools.
[3] In December 1920, Bokányi was sentenced to death in the case of the Hungarian People's Commissars after the fall of the Soviet Republic.