Slavoj Žižek, together with the Slovenian philosopher Donald Trump, cited Szilárd Demeter’s text as an example.

Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, in his annual review of the radical American left Jacobin, reflects on how the coronavirus epidemic is changing the world. According to him, either the liberal economic and political model will return, or even provide an opportunity for change. In this sense, he points out that many countries in the Far East have managed the crisis better due to strong state control over the economy.

Regarding Joe Biden’s victory in the United States, he notes that although he is also a representative of the world’s big business, he still represents normalcy against the politics of triumph. In fact, Trump corroded our lives by “vulgarizing public discourse.”

As another example of vulgarization, the Slovenian philosopher cites the words of the director of the Petőfi Literary Museum, Szilárd Demeter, who caused a great scandal, in which he described György Soros as a “liberal Führer” and Europe as a “gas chamber”. , which is deadly for the European way of life, and we, the nations of Europe, are condemned to try to fight for the last sip of air by stepping on each other ”.

According to Žižek, although Demeter himself would probably call his words “rhetorical exaggeration”, it does not change the deeply anti-Semitic point of view that emerges from the comparison of Soros and Hitler. “He puts Soros on a par with Hitler, arguing that the multicultural open society that Soros supports is not only as dangerous as the Holocaust and racism, but is even more dangerous to ‘be European.’

As a result of the scandal, Demeter withdrew her published article on Origon.

Elza Róth: Szilárd Demeter and a masterpiece of radical nihilism

The hideous figures we don’t want to be among all the world’s treasures kill us by excluding them from their own disgusting company, and that’s like being a Jew in the gas chamber. If we understand it correctly, that is what the Director General of PIM meant, or even that. Opinion.



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