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Democracy in Hungary – The Alliance of State Autocracy and Neoliberal Capitalism (2019) Attila Antal. A welcomed analysis of the contemporary Hungarian (political) condition. The text identifies German big-business and EU economics as a factors in the rise of Hungarian autocracy. Centers of political power benefit from disruptions in the fringe.

Democracy in Hungary is being undermined not just by the authoritarian state, but by authoritarian neoliberal capitalism. In my view, the most important challenge of our time is that of preserving democracy under the pressure of this multi-faceted (state and market) autocracy.

Experimenting with tt-rss. Inoreader has changed its policy and using it for my +500 feeds would require a yearly 20€ payment. This is a bad blow for many small scale organizations and non-facebook users who are relying on rss-feeds for news. tt-rss seems to work ok and it even has an android front-end. There is also an option for multiple users which could prove convenient  in the future. OPML import/export seems to work well but I can’t yet confirm that it finds the feeds from the backup Inoreader generated. Some of the feeds are dead and managing the data might proof difficult. So far, so good.

Mineral water compositions around the world mineralwaters.geo.uu.nl. Service maintained by Dr. Marcel van der Perk.

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