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4 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
László Bogár on the global growth craze
The imperative of constant economic growth is a chimaera, the left-nationalist philosopher László Bogár writes in the right-wing conservative daily Magyar Hírlap: "Anyone who today dares to question or - God forbid - criticise the necessity and benefit of permanent economic growth is treated with ridicule and malice. Nevertheless there are things we should consider. Firstly, the question of quantity and quality. Is it really sensible to have growth at all costs, regardless of how it comes about? When for example the volume of an activity increases that brings about more ecological, social or cultural damage than it produces material goods, then such growth makes society distinctly poorer. ... When a country registers economic growth of one or two percent today, the word stagnation is on everyone's lips. But let's project this indefensibly 'low' growth far into the future. ... If the global economy were to grow by one percent per year for 500 years, it would grow 143-fold. And over 1,000 years it would grow 21,000-fold!"
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László Bogár on the insidious dictatorship named democracy
A growing number of people, particularly in Eastern Europe, are questioning democracy as a state form, writes the economist László Bogár in the right-wing conservative daily Magyar Hírlap. That's because democracy is basically a dictatorship that concentrates power in the hands of a small elite ruling over the unsuspecting masses, Bogár comments: "The idea of social equality is exclusively a characteristic of Western modernity. The proclamation 'all men are created equal' hides nothing more than the goal of giving dictatorial power to a small elite with the help of infinitely manipulable masses. With egalitarian democracy the transparency of state power was abrogated. ... Today decisions are taken in the name of a society where 'everyone is equal'. However this social equality is also manifested in the fact that the people are completely uninformed - and thus infinitely manipulable. The so-called democratic counterweights change nothing in this, as the institutions that are supposed to function as counterweights and controls are in the hands of the the cynical and unscrupulous elite, and consequently part of the manipulative system. Ever since its inception, Western democracy has been one of the most insidious and refined dictatorships in world history."
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László Bogár on people as nature's great affliction
The oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico testifies to mankind's destructive power, writes economist László Bogár in the conservative daily Magyar Hírlap: "What we are describing as an environmental disaster is really a profound moral and spiritual crisis for mankind. ... The Earth got along fine without mankind for billions of years and will continue to do so once mankind has disappeared. ... True, it will remember us for some time. According to a recently published study after mankind has died out it will take three thousand years for all the poisonous chemical residues we 'presented' it with to disappear. Its most lasting memory of us will without doubt be the nuclear waste that will continue to emit radiation for millions of years. ... Mankind's greed for profit is insatiable and makes it capable of anything. ... The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is only receiving such intense media coverage because it affects the world's most powerful and richest nation. ... But unfortunately it is only too clear that the gigantic machinery that governs the world's oil reserves is far more powerful than any government."
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Private pension schemes won't solve demographic problems
Private pension schemes are a risky solution to the demographic crisis in the West, the conservative daily Magyar Hírlap writes: "The private pension system appears to offer a way out of the predicament, but this is deceptive because private pension funds invest the payments made by future pensioners in the shares of transnational companies that make extra profits in regions of the world where on the one hand the birth rate is high while on the other wage costs are extremely low. ... The problem with this is that you can also lose in this pyramid game because those regions are increasingly rebelling against this strange 'division of labour'. Last year at a global level ... around a third of all savings in private pension funds simply 'disappeared'. The loss amounts to around five billion US dollars. ... Considering that in the long-term there will be many pensioners and fewer active people (because fewer children are being born), private pension funds also threaten to collapse."
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