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Against this background, our work has shown that the new accumulation regime that has emerged in Hungary since the 2008 world economic crisis is largely based on an authoritarian management of the contradiction between subsidizing capital and pushing the costs of social reproduction on the working masses. The management of the politically most active middle classes included an unstable mix of capitalizing the upper middle class (and using their savings for stabilizing oligarchic capital circuits), and the ideological targeting and selective subsidizing of downwardly mobile middle-class segments.
Beyond the use of administrative and redistributive tools, these efforts included repressive ideological and political means, which pulled the regime close to far right ideology, and political alliances with far right groups throughout Europe and beyond (most recently, engagement in Turkey’s war on the Kurds). Despite all coercive efforts, contradictions have grown so great even during economic upswings, that Orbán seems to lose some control over the political-ideological base upon which his regime was built.
full: http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/2019-hungarian-election-crisis-and-hegemonic-struggle/
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