László Bogár

László Bogár

László Bogár (* 22. April 1951 in Miskolc ), Secretary of State a. D. Hungarian -globalization philosopher and left / right national publicist .

Life

László Bogár attended a French-language grammar school in the northern Hungarian industrial city of Miskolc , where he graduated from high school in 1969. In the same year he enrolled at the Karl Marx University of Economics in Budapest . In 1973 he completed his studies with a master's degree. After graduating, he worked for a year as a research assistant at the University of Miskolc . From 1975 to 1986 he worked on the regional council of the Borsod-Abauj-Zemplén Committee (Northern Hungary). In 1986 he received his doctorate in economics. Before the fall of the Wall, he worked at the socio-political department of the Communist Popular Front ( Hazafias Népfront ). From 1989 to 1989 he was feuilleton -Ressortleiter in the national conservative literary journal " Hitel ". Although Bogár joined the communist state party MSZMP as early as 1978 , before the turnaround he was heavily involved in the founding of the first opposition party, the Hungarian Democratic Forum ( MDF ). In the first free elections in Hungary in 1990 he won a mandate in Northern Hungary and in the Hungarian Parliament he was responsible for economic policy issues. In the first freely elected government of Hungary, he held the post of State Secretary in the Ministry of International Economic Relations - as State Secretary he dealt with Hungarian-French relations and the European aid program " PHARE ". He was able to keep his mandate in the next elections in 1994, although his party, the MDF, suffered heavy losses. When the MDF split in 1996, he resigned with the right-wing liberal wing and helped found the conservative-free-thinking small party, the Hungarian Democratic People's Party (MDNP). He was the economic policy spokesman for the new liberal-conservative group. Since the MDNP failed at the five percent hurdle in 1998, even Bogár lost his mandate. In the center-right government of Viktor Orbán , however, he received several important posts: he was State Secretary in the Chancellery, he presided over the government-related "Center for Strategic Research", which was entrusted with the long-term planning of government policy, and he acted as a personal advisor of the Prime Minister Dr. Viktor Orbán. As director of the aforementioned institute, he began to deal with issues critical of globalization. At that time he was considered the main ideologist of the government. In 2002, however, the anti-communists narrowly lost the elections, so Bogár was supposed to return to his scientific activities. He teaches z. Currently at several universities: he is professor of communication science at the Calvinist University of Budapest, holder of the chair of statistics at the International Business School of Budapest ( IBS ), and is a regular guest at various conferences at home and abroad. He is married with two children and speaks French , English and Russian . He has a doctorate in economics and a qualified political scientist .

philosophy

As an economist, he wanted to position himself against the neoclassical school and develop his own economics and social theory, drawing on the ideas of Karl Marx , Martin Heidegger , Béla Hamvas , Mircea Eliade and Carl Schmitt , among others . In his main work, "Magyarország és globalizáció" (Hungary and globalization), he tried to work out his own interpretation of modern history by criticizing capitalist progress mania and postmodern desacralization of the environment. He dedicates several chapters in this book to the Hungarian system change of 1989, which he describes as a pure change of empire. According to these theses, a critical school is formed around Bogár, which intends to work out an ecological answer to capitalism. Bogár sees the world as a unit, where the individual subsystems (economy, law, culture, etc.) are subordinate to each other. His philosophy of history has certain metaphysical features in it.

Current political activity

Bogár revised his preference for the Hungarian bourgeoisie. In his later books he even criticized the Orbán government, and in his lively journalism in the daily newspaper " Magyar Hírlap " he draws attention to how deceptive the social and globalization-critical profile of the current opposition is. Some claim that he could appear with a green or globalization-critical, left-wing national party. For the young critics of globalization, it is also a reference point. He is a regular guest at various left-wing, system-critical organizations, his articles also appear in the left-wing radical Indymedia . He took part in this year's talks of the environmental organization "Védegylet" (German protection association), where the possibility of a green party was discussed.

Web links

• László Bogár's blog (Hungarian)
• His articles on the website of the Hungarian Indymedia (Hungarian)
• His argument with a Hungarian entrepreneur on the situation of the Hungarian capitalism (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.parlament.hu/kepviselo/elet/b233.htm
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ http://www.bruchlinien.at/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1165221926&archive=&start_from=&ucat=30&category=30