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Lenin speaking in Moscow on 5 May 1920 to motivate troops to fight Poland.

A US Student in Budapest: An American Perspective on Socialism and Freedom

‘The American left is seeking what they call ‘Social democracy’ and claim it is not ‘democratic socialism’, but everyone knows it is indeed the same ideology. This socialist ideology reflects that of Rousseau’s, who had an abstract idea of society’s…
Gyula Horn (L), Chairman of the Hungarian Socialist Party, the sitting prime minister at the time, and Viktor Orbán during their 20 May, pre-election debate at the University of Economics (today Corvinus University) in 1998.

A Quarter-Century of a Civic Hungary

This new generation renewed Hungarian politics not only in the use of language but also in the nature of governance. It was open about its value choices and did not accept that politics was merely the dispassionate administration of affairs….
The Li-2 passenger plane of the Hungarian-Soviet Civil Aviation Corporation (MASZOVLET) with the registration number HA-LIA at Budaörs airport.

Criminals or Defectors? — The Story of a Hijacking in 1956

A short story of a group of desperate young Hungarians who in 1956, disillusioned with socialism, overpowered the passengers and the secret agent on a plane, successfully flew it to Germany, and the leaders of whom eventually became members of…

Conservative Cultural Superiority — The Age of the National Maximum

In the third and fourth decades of the 21st century, national–conservative forces will have a chance to end the left-liberal cultural hegemony that has been dominating for a hundred years now. This is where the natural alliance between right-wing party…

The Age of Thunder

According to Thomas Molnar, intellectualism is only a brief flash between the religious and technological society. More dangerous than its waning light is its ‘thunder’, i.e. the unspoken problem of the Century, which is revealed unmistakably only after the lightning….

László Németh: A Conservative Utopian?

Although we clearly cannot consider László Németh a conservative thinker in the ‘classical’ sense, we can still regard him as an interesting writer. He is worthy of our attention especially with regard to his critique of technocracy. In fact, he…

The Woke Revolution Is Still Far from Over

‘Those who oppose the Woke tide must recognize that the revolution they face is a many-headed hydra, driven and enabled by a multitude of factors beyond the political. Ultimately its deepest roots are in the social atomization, cultural breakdown, and…

Recollections of the Past — How Hungarians Remember Communism

While Hungarian national memory of communism is far from being consolidated, the tendency among young people to view their ancestors’ actions under a totalitarian regime with empathy while at the same time to strongly reject communism as a political ideology…

Preserving the Powers that Be – Theodore Herzl on Socialism, Democracy and Revolution

During this period, both sides tried to quote the writings of the Budapest-born founder of political Zionism, Theodore Herzl, and both sides seemed to find their own version of Herzl that fit their arguments….
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Elevating the Unworthy? – Part I: Communist Leaders

Poorly educated people with disgusting habits, yet still the wealthiest in the societies that suffered under and because of their rule – how can the most unworthy be elevated to such positions of power under state socialism or communism?…

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