[lbo-talk] post-Communism, Hungarian-style

dredmond at efn.org dredmond at efn.org
Tue Apr 13 13:47:55 PDT 2010


On Tue, April 13, 2010 1:20 pm, Doug Henwood forwarded:


> <http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,688710,00.html>
> 04/13/2010
>
> The Socialist government, led by technocrat Gordon Bajnai since April
> 2009, was punished for making painful budget cuts to rein in the
> deficit under a bailout led by the International Monetary Fund.
>
> The Jobbik party got some 17 percent after campaigning on a
> deeply xenophobic platform.

In short, the transnational monster of Euroliberalism (that slightly more solvent version of Wall Street neoliberalism) spawned the micro-monsters of ethno-fundamentalism. The Euroleft will have to fight them both.

-- DRR



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