Hey @gsvigruha I started reading False Dawn. Is there more to the book's message beyond "Globalization and free trade are not a naturally occurring process and require a great deal of centralized int'l governmental support"? I ask because it's a pretty dense read...
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One last point: some of the trends are universal. The old left lost much of its worker/rural base partially due to globalist/neoliberal policies, so now they are unelectable. This happened pretty much in every european country + usa though usually to a lesser extent.
You mean workers that would've supported the old left have immigrated to richer european countries? Sorry, I'm unclear about whether democracy is an equilibrium in Hungary? You feel like eventually someone like Orban will break with democratic norms and eventually become Putin?
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No i mean the old left parties changed policies so workers etc vote for the right or dont vote. Orban already is breaking with the norms of liberal democracy. But he wont go quite as far as putin and if he tries there will be a backlash.
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What i meant is hungary usually oscillates back and forth between whats the western european norm and the russian norm at the time.
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