Demeter Szilárd, director general of the Petőfi Literary Museum, reacted to a recently published opposition campaign clip. The politician-writer predicted a dark future for the left-liberal elite threatened by its own.

Demokrata journalist Demeter Szilárd talked about culture war, elite change, neo-Marxist intention to conquer space.

According to Demeter, there is actually not a culture war going on in Hungary, but a battle for the positions of the elites. The participants in the campaign clip were the servants of the circle of power whose return they hope for. The MSZP-SZDSZ coalition brought it to a dominant position and endowed this layer of culture with almost omnipotent decision-making powers. All of this changed in 2010, but they are now hoping for a return to normalcy. However, this will not be the case, as the director-general drew attention to earlier. Even if the opposition wins by chance in 2022, they will not return to power, that is, to their old positions, because a new left-liberal elite will come and sweep them aside.

The so-called stable logic kept this elite together, which at the end of the 1970s was already the beneficiary of the waning cultural policy in Kádár at the time. The same names return who did well in the past and are doing well now.

In the last ten years, the country has spent much more money on culture than ever before. The Petőfi Literary Museum (PIM) alone pays out nearly HUF 500 million annually to contemporary writers in the form of various scholarships. And then we didn't even talk about the grants provided by the National Cultural Fund or the Hungarian Academy of Arts. Meanwhile, we never think of limiting creative freedom. Moreover, the conservative course is the only potential guardian of freedom of thought and speech, Demeter explains.

To the suggestion that perhaps they are not driven by material things, but by principles and ideas, the Director General replied:

I would be happy if there were principles and loyalty to principles in the left-liberal space. Because if that were the case, today's rainbow coalition would not have been created. People and forces entered into an alliance here, whose supposed principles would otherwise not allow them to enter into an alliance. The SZDSZ's principles have already broken, as they have declared that they will never fall out with socialists. Then of course! Since then, you can't talk about ideas on the other side of space."

The full interview HERE .

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