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Orbán’s Ordonationalism as Post-Neoliberal Hegemony
Title / Series / Name
Theory, Culture & Society
Publication Volume
38
Publication Issue
6
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Authoritarianism
Hegemony
Hungary
Neoliberalism
Post-neoliberalism
Social reproduction
State power
Hegemony
Hungary
Neoliberalism
Post-neoliberalism
Social reproduction
State power
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/13774
Abstract
This essay examines Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, and his cultivation of a new form of authoritarian and hyper-nationalist neoliberalism, which I call ordonationalist. With particular emphasis placed on tracing resurgence of the national state, ordonationalism points to the neoliberal intensifications, but also the ruptures to neoliberalism through post-neoliberal advances, exemplified by the Hungarian state. Ordonationalism combines: (1) a newly empowered nationalist state invested in flexibilizing domestic labour and controlling access to domestic capitalist accumulation; (2) a national state captured by political actors as a means towards controlling access to domestic capital accumulation; (3) a novel regime of social reproduction, linking financialization, flexibilization of labour, steep decline in supporting social reproduction, and supporting consumption as a source of social reproduction. This project is hegemonic. However, the contradictions between radical neoliberalization and radical nationalism generate ever-more instances where an authoritarian state steps in to solve crises generated by its contradictions.
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Journal article
Date
2021
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Identifiers
10.1177/0263276421999435