Problem is that in the specific Hungarian case (and all cases are
specific) is that it raises the spectre/ skeletton in the cupboard
called 'Trianon', the evil treaty that dismembered the
Austrian-Hungarian empire after WWI punishing it far more than it did
punish imperial Germany. Etnicity in
dear janos
from your perspective of hungary suffering from fragmenting ethinicism,
could parallels be drawn with situations in north africa where nation
states are purposely being divided along ethnic lines by outside powers to
enable access to former nationally controlled resources eg: libya,
folks,
what in hungary is going on is not nationalism, but ethinicism,
big difference.
Gáspár Miklós Tamás:
/.../
To get as far as they possibly could from
democratic nationalism-which is a variant of
classical republicanism: political equality and
self-determination-they engaged in
nationalism is a good thing? I certainly misunderstood your email, sorry,
as nationalism leads to wars and global destruction, cf. WW1, WW2 - and WW3?
what we need is, as north-american poet Gizzi says, an outernationalism
best,
frederic n.
2017-04-04 8:16 GMT-05:00 heath bunting
dear janos
long time no see
it appears to me that like many other countries, hungary is disengaging
from imperial vassal statehood and returning to nationalism
this is potentially a good thing, as the rule of international law is
incompatible with imperialism and nationalism at least has the
