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...
So today it is most ironically the right wingers who are the happiest to evoke these pleasant memories in order to justify the hard-ass authoritarianism of the Orbán government and it's the so-called "left wing" (i.e. the conservative liberal opposition) which keeps saying that the spirit of "Kádárism" is back, thereby proving them right. Of course this latter statement is utter nonsense which proves that the super enlightened thinkers of the opposition who love to accuse the Hungarian people of historical amnesia are suffering from a very hard case of just that. Everyone with a tiny bit of historical education should know that the ideology making a comeback today is that of Hungary's previous dictator: Miklos Horthy. I wouldn't even call it "neo-horthyism" because we really ain't seeing nothing new under the sun. Horthy was the de facto ruler of Hungary between 1920 and 1944 who turned an unfair and unjust society even more unfair and unjust, into the nation of three million beggars. He was a complete moron with the brains and wisdom of a teenager while the better part of his policies were directly copied from the success story of Bismarck's "state socialism". Today, however, our government is not ruled by assholes copying some parts of a successful model but by pathologically narcissistic shamanist loonies without any long-term vision except for a right-wing nanny state which takes everything from the working class and gives it to the drinking buddies from college (and occasionally to the faithful vassals).
These facts notwithstanding, many Hungarians are willing to attribute all those good things of the Kádár regime to its authoritarian discipline and not to the enlightened humanistic ideology of its leader. They don't care to remember that the other nations of the Eastern Block were not even close to this scale of welfare, maybe except for the non-aligned Yugoslavia.
So today it is most ironically the right wingers who are the happiest to evoke these pleasant memories in order to justify the hard-ass authoritarianism of the Orbán government and it's the so-called "left wing" (i.e. the conservative liberal opposition) which keeps saying that the spirit of "Kádárism" is back, thereby proving them right. Of course this latter statement is utter nonsense which proves that the super enlightened thinkers of the opposition who love to accuse the Hungarian people of historical amnesia are suffering from a very hard case of just that. Everyone with a tiny bit of historical education should know that the ideology making a comeback today is that of Hungary's previous dictator: Miklos Horthy. I wouldn't even call it "neo-horthyism" because we really ain't seeing nothing new under the sun. Horthy was the de facto ruler of Hungary between 1920 and 1944 who turned an unfair and unjust society even more unfair and unjust, into the nation of three million beggars. He was a complete moron with the brains and wisdom of a teenager while the better part of his policies were directly copied from the success story of Bismarck's "state socialism". Today, however, our government is not ruled by assholes copying some parts of a successful model but by pathologically narcissistic shamanist loonies without any long-term vision except for a right-wing nanny state which takes everything from the working class and gives it to the drinking buddies from college (and occasionally to the faithful vassals).
These facts notwithstanding, many Hungarians are willing to attribute all those good things of the Kádár regime to its authoritarian discipline and not to the enlightened humanistic ideology of its leader. They don't care to remember that the other nations of the Eastern Block were not even close to this scale of welfare, maybe except for the non-aligned Yugoslavia.
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