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Vol.132, No.7, 2025

WOKE: THE REBRANDED COMMUNISM

Date
2025-06-04
Authors
Rajmund Fekete
Keyword
Korean Peninsula, Foreign Policy
  • abstract

      When we shook the off the shackles of dictatorship in our anti-communist revolutions in Hungary in 1989 and 1990, we were finally able to enter the 21st century as victors. Victors, because we are free and independent. But we did not take note of William Faulkner's blessing in the euphoria of the regime change: "There is no such thing as was-only is." By the time the Soviet Union collapsed, the atheistic Marxism that underpinned communist ideology had found fertile soil in the Western world. Class struggle has been replaced by identity struggle what poisoned Western societies.