anon_bidu said in #3447 2w ago:
https://www.jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/budapest-revisited
>My first thought reading Marx was that, when I establish the Christian Democratic natural law commonwealth, my first order of business will be to set about creating a large, precarious class of artisans feeling the pinch of market forces and reliant on my patronage via lavish public works projects. Thus it delighted me when, arriving in Budapest, I discovered that Viktor Orbán had diligently set to work husbanding precisely such a development.
Pokorny is a breath of flowery fresh air, despite this piece in reality being an indictment of Orbán's blip-on-the-historical-radar regime's aesthetics of 'kitsch atop concrete'. Is it in fact possible to build works of great splendor anew, with strange and interesting aesthetic ideas?
>My first thought reading Marx was that, when I establish the Christian Democratic natural law commonwealth, my first order of business will be to set about creating a large, precarious class of artisans feeling the pinch of market forces and reliant on my patronage via lavish public works projects. Thus it delighted me when, arriving in Budapest, I discovered that Viktor Orbán had diligently set to work husbanding precisely such a development.
Pokorny is a breath of flowery fresh air, despite this piece in reality being an indictment of Orbán's blip-on-the-historical-radar regime's aesthetics of 'kitsch atop concrete'. Is it in fact possible to build works of great splendor anew, with strange and interesting aesthetic ideas?
Pokorny is a breath