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Gáspár Miklós Tamás speaking at the Hungarian parliament in 1990 (Photo: Fortepan / Urbán Tamás)

Gáspár Miklós Tamás — A real Hungarian leftist

After the 1989 transition from state socialism to market economy, Hungarians were told — just like the working classes in Western democracies — that there was no alternative to the combination of free market capitalism and liberal democratic institutional politics. But one man, who passed away last month, painted a different path.

Many who had opposed the socialist regimes of Eastern Europe were hopeful that a new free society would arise that could remedy the social and political ills...

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Nóra Schultz currently works as an editor at the Budapest-based media project Partizán, she is also a founding member of Szikra, a new left-wing political organisation in Hungary.

Gáspár Miklós Tamás speaking at the Hungarian parliament in 1990 (Photo: Fortepan / Urbán Tamás)

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Nóra Schultz currently works as an editor at the Budapest-based media project Partizán, she is also a founding member of Szikra, a new left-wing political organisation in Hungary.

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