Gábor Horn, former secretary of state of the Gyurcsány government and former SZDSZ politician, is simply upset because Austrians and people from other neighboring countries cannot benefit from the domestic gasoline price freeze. In other words, he strongly disagrees with the fact that the Hungarian state represents the interests of Hungarian motorists and not those of foreigners.
We already know this free democratic, left-liberal, cosmopolitan thinking of the national economy, which disregards the interests of Hungarian citizens, from the past decades, from the practice of the Horn and then Gyurcsány governments (because there were two of the latter) which were enriched with SZDSZ ministers.
We have suffered properly, from the Bokros package to Bálint Magyar's PPP constructions to the speech of the liberal Minister of Health Ágnes Horváth, according to which everything in health care is about profit (we, the unfortunate ones, thought until then that it was about curing the sick ).
So we know the way of thinking of the Ballibeks, which hasn't changed a bit, and the philosophical essence of which was once again formulated by Gábor Horn: he considers himself a market fundamentalist, and therefore considers any kind of price cap measures and state intervention unacceptable, since they contradict the free flow of goods and services.
The Democratic Coalition, including representative Ferenc Dávid, who - like Horn - rejects the government's practice, also thinks the same way, but of course the current and other liberal politicians also have the same opinion.
Gábor Horn therefore says that there is nothing better in the world than the market. And the state should not interfere in the economy, because it only confuses economic processes, is unfair and causes damage.
After all, the market does justice between economic actors, it rewards the talented and punishes the untalented, balances are created based on the principle of supply and demand, everything changes hands according to its true value, and this ultimately increases prosperity.
The only problem with Gábor Horn's market fundamentalism is that even those who still promote it no longer believe in it.
Because today the market has shown a hundredfold that it is not an "invisible hand" (Adam Smith) that solves everything as an independent mechanism, but rather the market consists of people who are trying to get bigger and bigger profits, unscrupulously and shamelessly.
Perhaps it is worth looking at the distribution of the world's income, which has been showing for quite some time that the majority of the world's wealth is concentrated in the hands of ever narrower circles, the one percent of the one percent. According to all data, this process is getting stronger every year, and wealth inequality is taking on brutal proportions around the globe.
Everyone realized a long time ago that the trickle down theory promoted by the neoliberals, according to which it is good if a rich layer is selected, because then they will reinvest their extra profit, invest, create jobs and thus the people at the bottom will also do well ("the money trickles down to them") - simply not true. The facts show that the extra profit does not trickle down, but continues to grow in the pockets of the same people through financial speculation.
Or should I refer to Karl Marx, who is so dear to the leftists, who already in the XIX. In the 19th century, he wrote that the nature of capital – based on market effects! – is it centralized and concentrated, since the big fish eats the small fish, or does it become globalized and crush national economic interests?
It has been known for a long time: the dominant players of the market - especially the market that has become global - strive to eliminate the good effects of the market. In other words, the global market elite wants to eliminate the market the most.
Well, that's why we need the state, the nation-state, which can counterbalance the anti-market economic elite, for example in the world market of energy, oil and gas, where vultures and shells determine and manipulate prices - mostly skyrocketing in the middle of war. The state alone can protect the citizens of a country from impoverishment.
But this is too "practical" thinking for a market fundamentalist. Long live the principle! Long live the theory! Long live the unbreakable idea!
And the "worm" - the population - should perish, as it stands in the way of the idea's success.
Source: Hungarian Nation
Cover photo: Gábor Horn (Photo: MTI/Attila Kovács)
