To this day, the left has not been able to get off the cosmopolitan, internationalist train. He continues to sit on a moving train to nothing, he has no vision for the future - Katalin Szili responded in an interview to Pesti Srácok to the question of why it is possible that while the neighboring states established nationalist-communist governments even under Soviet oppression, the Hungarian communists across the border they were internationalists who abhorred even the idea of being Hungarians.
In the interview, Katalin Szili also talked about, among other things, the fact that today parties can no longer be classified according to left-wing or right-wing, but according to which are the national and which are the political representatives of the cosmopolitan, neoliberal trend.
After the Second World War, communist-based governments were established in Hungary as well as in the neighboring successor states, but at the same time, the duality can be felt that while in our country the communists professed internationalist principles, in the surrounding countries the ideology of the same socialist governments was strongly determined by nationalism, not sparing the Hungarian minority. . The PS employee asked Katalin Szili, the prime minister's representative responsible for cross-border autonomy matters, about what could be the reason for this duality.
In the introduction, Katalin Szili talked about: forty of the more than a hundred years that have passed since Trianon fell during the Kádár era, when it was forbidden to talk about Hungarians across the border in Hungary. He added: this is precisely why Hungarian society could be less sensitive to national issues, since this issue did not appear in education or in other areas of culture. At the same time, Katalin Szili noted: despite the silence of the topic, the national feeling was still dormant in society, and it was the civil network that channeled the cultural achievements of Hungarians across the border into our country through the remaining connections. The ministerial commissioner highlighted: Hungary has split into two sides, along the lines of the official approach that ignores official national aspects and the unofficial approach with national sentiments, and these two branches have only partially come together after the regime change.
In socialist politics, after the regime change, internationalism was replaced by cosmopolitanism, which, with its neoliberal thinking and the complete annulment of national feelings and national issues, tried to influence Hungarian society and bring it to its side, but it failed, he said, adding : today, the parties can no longer be classified according to left-wing or right-wing, but according to which are the national conservative and which are the political representatives of the cosmopolitan, neoliberal trend.
the full article from Pesti Srácok here.
Author: Mátyás Susánszky
Photo: Petra László
