Populist Radical Right Opposition to an Illiberal Regime

Just as Hungary had a Marxian opposition to its Communist regime, it presently has an active opposition to its rising illiberal regime from the political right.  This paper explores both the ideological significance of an anti-bourgeois political movement that challenges the immediately pragmatic politics of Orban's illiberal regime, as well as the identity politics of an explicitly chauvinist movement that eschews tolerance in the absence of liberal human rights protections for Roma, immigrants, Jewish and ethnic minority communities.  The a theoretical lens of the writings of Georges Sorel, it also examines the broader significance for Europe of the expansion of politics beyond formal institutions into the street, and the roles of direction action groups in furthering a politics that attacks abstraction and embraces action, even if that action may entail violence. In the face of a potential end of liberal politics within the European project, the paper explores a future where an increasingly illiberal and intolerant political right it further challenged and opposed by a culturally strident radical right.