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Mapping the Hungarian Left: parties and movements

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Post date September 30, 2015

source: Paprikapolitik.Com

By 2010, after eight years in government the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) had eroded the popularity to such an extent that MSZP lost 60% of its former voters (1.4 million people) and its traditional coalition partner, the liberal Alliance of Free Democrats (SZDSZ) disappeared from the political map of Hungary. In parallel with the weakening […]

Tags capitalism, elections, electoral politics, Fidesz, green, Hungary, left, Left politics, liberalism, MSZP, neoliberalism, politics, social movements, socialist

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“We should recognize that there are other imperialisms”: A Marxist dissident explains what the left gets wrong about Russia. An interview with Ilya Budraitskis.

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Post date April 7, 2015

Vladimir Putin (Credit: Reuters/Yves Herman)

Charles Davis talks to Ilya Budraitkis on Salon.Com . Here we present the interview. The whole lengthy material can be accessed on the Salon website. Obviously the biggest story in Russia and here in the United State is the recent assassination of Boris Nemstov. Here in the West, Russia right now is portrayed as sort of a police […]

Tags campism, imperialism, liberalism, Maidan, new Cold War, protests, Russia, socialist, Ukraine