Goulash, anyone?

It's totally weird to see this one in the Daily Hatemail, but it's all correct. János Kádár was a very enlightened technocrat compared to all those pathologically arrogant and feeble-minded stalinist idiots like Brezhnev and Honecker, but even to our "democratic" politicians of today. If only he were alive and the Hungarian Socialist Party (aka MSZP) would nominate him, he would most certainly win with an epic landslide next year. The funny thing is that this "socialist" party - the successor of the regime's "communist" party - actually did win with an epic landslide in 1994, after four years of right-wing bullshit. As we may have expected from the greatest champions of technocratic reformism on the Wild East, these "reformed communists" almost immediately started enacting some very brutal policies of neoliberal austerity...

Enemy of the enemy

Metakrtitikus gondolatok egy Észak-Koreát védelmező íráshoz

Időnként nem egészen értem, hogy Észak-Korea "rendszerkritikus" barátainak konkrétan melyik rendszerrel van oly nagy bajuk. Nem mintha bárkitől is el akarnám vitatni a rendszerellenesség nemes bélyegét, hiszen magam is rohadtul utálom, mikor egyes ilyetén beállítottságú kritikusok "liberális demokratának" próbálnak beállítani, de azt azért látni kell, hogy a két hivatalosan szembenálló rendszer valójában nagyon is jól megvan egymással: Észak-Koreánál jobb ellenségképet keresve sem találhatna magának a nyugati jobboldal, míg ugyanez elmondható az amerikai neokonzervatívokra a Kedves Vezető szemszögéből. A két dudás egyelőre nagyon is jól megfér egy csárdában, sőt mi több: szükségük van egymásra! Kiegészítik egymást, mint a yin és a yang.

The witch is dead

"There's no such thing as society!" - Thatcher, 1987

"There's no such thing as Thatcher!" - society, 2013

Okay, I'm not happy in the strict sense for Maggie's death because I know it doesn't make our lives any better and I knew how the right wing was going to use the event the saturate the whole media landscape with dribbling hagiography - even from the "socialist" president Obama, which is really nauseating albeit not surprising - and they can also accuse the hard left of being insensitive or whatever.

They live

This picture tells it all! It's an artistic composition...

- On the background, we can see the monstrous abomination of Capitalism as it spreads and grows and consumes everything. ("Játékterem" means Gambling room!)

- At the center, the large white box is actually a commemorative plaque for anti-fascism which kind of looks like a piece of ruin from the late antiquity. Indeed it is a forsaken relic saved by chance from the all-consuming memory hole of right-wing idiotism.

- At the foreground, however, we can see the power of the people par excellence!

Feel it!!!

Protagoras pt 2

Scene 1: Socrates is rushed out of bed by Hippocrates

Hip: Socrates! Socrates! Wake up!

Soc: Hippocrates, what the holy fuck is wrong with you? My god, it's 4 AM!

Hip: Socrates, I need to talk to you! I have splendid news: Protagoras is in town!

Soc: What? Dude, he's been here since friday! How come you didn't know?

Hip: Oh God, I was pursuing my fugitive slave for five days and I just came home recently! Shit happens, you know. Well, at least I managed to take him back...

Soc: All right, now tell me what's the matter! Why aren't you sleeping now?

Did Protagoras rob you on the street or what the fuck?

Hip: Hell, yeah! He robbed me, that's for sure! Of all the wisdom he's keeping from me! You know, we were already finishing our diner when my brother started to talk about this guy and I just got so excited! Come on, he's staying with Callias! Why not go there right now?

Soc: Mother of mercy, relax! That son of a bitch is probably sleeping now after having spent the night with some hookers in town. I'm pretty sure you will find him getting his shit together in the afternoon. You can go pay him a visit and of course some very good money as well. If you do that, he will sure as hell become your super best friend!

Hip: Really? Man, I wish this were the case! He can take all the money I have! And I want you to speak with him on my behalf. You know, I'm young and I've never seen him, and he is said to be the most the most successful speaker in Greece!

Soc: All right, take it easy now! Let's go to the garden, pick up some fresh air and talk this through...

Protagoras pt 1

Intro: Socrates starts telling his story to some guy

Guy: So how's it going with that young and handsome Alcibiades? I just saw him yesterday, his beard is fully out. Still I say he's sexier than ever!

Soc: What? Of course he is! Young guys are the sexiest when their beard comes out! That's what the great Homer said too.

Guy: Sure, sure! So how are things going? Is he being nice to you?

Soc: Oh, yes, he is! Especially today. He just helped me out in an argument. But you know what happened? I just found a man who was so much sexier that sometimes I didn't even notice he was there!

Guy: You're kidding me, right? No one is sexier than... Hmm! I guess this guy is from another town, right?

Soc: Yep! He comes from Abdera.

Guy: And you tell me this stranger is really hotter than the son of Cleinias?

Soc: Yes! And you know why? It's the brains, man! That's what makes a man really sexy! I tell you, this guy was so just smart, it just blows your mind! Protagoras is the smartest man in the universe!

Guy: What? Protagoras is in town?

Soc: Yes, he's been here for two days.

Guy: Oh boy! Why didn't you just start with this one? Did you converse with him?

Soc: Yes, and I said many things.

Guy: Lucky bastard, you! Now you gonna sit down and tell me all that happened!

Soc: I'd be delighted! It all started out very early in the morning with that idiot Hippocrates, the son of Apollodorus and brother of Phason. It was not even dawning when I hear him banging on my door like shit...