August 6, 2022
Miklós Szánthó, Director General of the Center for Fundamental Rights at CPAC Texas. Short press release:
“Our fundamentally changing world will either be dominated by a new, confused Marxism (and it doesn’t much matter if it comes from the East or the West) or it will be led by us, conservatives,” said Miklós Szánthó at CPAC Texas in Dallas. The director general of the Center for Fundamental Rights spoke at the event a few days after Viktor Orban and a few hours before Donald Trump. The Director General of the Center, which organized the CPAC Hungary event in Budapest, stressed that the only way out of the current state of war is peace, but this requires victories for conservatives worldwide. “Only the Right can offer our nations strength, dignity, common sense, and realism in foreign policy. That is why we must work together to realize the liberals’ nightmare of the international cooperation of national forces,” Szánthó added.
Miklós Szánthó recalled that Hungarians know first-hand the crimes of communism. “Communism was the original cancel culture. On steroids,” he said, adding that “a communist never disappears, he just changes disguises. Therefore we must state clearly: what was once known as “progressive” is better called by its true name: Marxism.”
The Director General of the Centre for Fundamental Rights highlighted that three decades after the liberation of Central Europe from communist oppression, we are once again facing the threat of socialism. “30 years after the iron curtain was brought down, we had to realize that a new kind of Marxism was on the verge of subduing Western Civilization and plotting an assault on our liberty once again,” he warned.
Szánthó also emphasized that the social destruction wrought by the new Left has serious security consequences. The Left is seeking to rewrite history in the name of political correctness, to destroy national pride, the family and to tear Western societies from their cultural roots. “They would destroy our national morale and the West is left strategically weakened and essentially defenseless in the face of foreign threats” he said, stressing that this was particularly acute now given the military aggression against Ukraine.
The Center for Fundamental Rights and the American Conservative Union, which organizes CPAC, have a long-standing partnership. The first CPAC in the US was held in 1974, and the first one in Europe, CPAC Hungary, was held this year in Budapest, Hungary, co-organized by the Center and the ACU.