%0 Book
%A Domonkos Sik
%D 2016
%C Berlin, Germany
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 9783653067767
%T Radicalism and indifference
%B Memory transmission, political formation and modernization in Hungary and Europe
%R 10.3726/978-3-653-06776-7
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1050272
%X Most theories of radicalization focus on the birth of antidemocratic ideas, semantics, behavior patterns and organizations. However, such focus is one-sided: radicalization is as much about the forgetting of historical lessons and the weakening of a democratic consensus, as the spreading of populist ideas. A case study of public and private processes of memory transmission in Hungary reveals how the ambiguous relation to modernization affects political formation: the failures provoke populist reactions, while the successes result in political indifference. The combination of these two political cultures creates a dangerous compound including both the opportunity for the birth of antidemocratic semantics and their ignorance. The author analyzes the potential of such «incubation of radicalism» on a European survey.
%K critical theory, political socialization, collective memory, radicalization
%G English