“End of the Orban Era in Hungary: Peter Magyar Won the Elections with a Strong Parliamentary Majority”.
History does not take revenge; it confirms.
Every era that moves away from the human being as the measure ultimately returns to it through its own collapse.
Intellectualism is not a luxury of civilization; it is its very defense against barbarism.
The far-right lunatic class is a large, organized segment of the population in countries with bourgeois democracy, whose main characteristic is the abandonment of fundamental, primordial and unshakable anthropocentric values. According to the ancient Greek principle, “man is the measure”, however, here this is replaced by artificial and therefore false, unnatural doctrines dictated by leaders, most of which converge on the well-known but radicalized triptych of the Right: “nation, religion, family” (nationalism-racism, fanaticism, individualism-conservatism).
Orbán, Le Pen, Farage, Meloni in Europe, and Trump, Bolsonaro, Milley in America, Brazil and Argentina are among the most prominent representatives of this lumpen far-right class, possessing a remarkable ability to mobilize masses around a central slogan: hatred of the “other” in any form. From skin color and race to different ideologies, the “different” is inherently seen as an enemy that must be eliminated physically and ideologically, in order to “save” their own version of humanity.
For all these reasons, the intellectual cannot flourish within the far-right sphere, as the very concept of intellectualism is in direct opposition to these destructive ideologies. Without a belief in anthropocentric values, intellectualism cannot exist – and vice versa. They are parallel lines that will never meet.
The defeat of Orbán, one of the most brutal representatives of the European far right, who for 16 years openly violated the principles of anthropocentrism, seems to mark the beginning of the end. We hope that the United States will soon follow, for one simple reason: the Trump phenomenon has proven that no system of power can endure without placing man at its center. Trump is not only dangerous for America. He is a mortal threat to the very concept of “Man”, as he drags societies back to barbarism and primitivism.
History itself confirms that regimes that ignore Protagoras’ principle “man is the measure of all things” and replace it with ideologies and substitutes of all kinds—except anthropocentrism—are doomed, sooner or later, to decay and collapse.
Diotima
Intellectualism and Anthropocentrism: An Ontological Relationship
Intellectualism is not a neutral construct. From Protagoras to Immanuel Kant, it is founded upon a fundamental principle: the human being is not a means, but an end.
Remove this principle, and you do not merely strip thought of its moral dimension—you dismantle its very foundation. Intellectual activity presupposes critical thinking; critical thinking presupposes freedom; and freedom presupposes the intrinsic value of the human being.
Far-right ideological systems—such as those associated with Viktor Orbán and Donald Trump—operate on a fundamentally different anthropological model. Here, the human being is not a universal value but a member of a defined group, whose worth is determined by identity rather than humanity itself.
Such systems replace truth with dogma, subordinate thought to authority, and transform the “other” into an enemy. In this framework, the intellectual becomes not merely unnecessary but dangerous, as they represent the possibility of truth beyond power.
History provides undeniable confirmation: wherever the human ceases to be the measure, thought ceases to be free. Intellectualism without anthropocentrism is not intellectualism at all—it is technique, propaganda, or mechanism.
Thus, the coexistence of intellectualism with anti-anthropocentric ideology is not simply difficult. It is ontologically impossible.