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The New Enemy at the Top Table

Last decade, the philosopher G. M. Tamás saw the new European far right as ‘post-fascist’: a movement that fights for no real change, raises national passions, humiliates the vulnerable, and is utterly comfortable with globalisation’s grim realities.

Gáspár Miklós Tamás in the Hungarian Parliament.

Gáspár Tamás' concept of post-fascism is essential for understanding the success of the contemporary far right. (Urbán Tamás / Fortepan)

Upon being asked to participate in a symposium about György Lukács’s The Destruction of Reason, the late Fredric Jameson observed: [F]ascism certainly seems to be making a comeback, and some of Lukács may no longer seem quite so annoyingly ‘orthodox’. I think Lukács must always be read in terms of his own historical situation, which […]

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