influenced birth_place era school_tradition influences main_interests birth_date article_title name region
andrew arato budapest 20th-century philosophy continental philosophy györgy lukács political theory 1935 györgy mihály vajda
 mihály andrás vajda western philosophy
györgy mihály vajda

mihály andrás vajda is a hungarian leftist intellectual who took part in the debates surrounding the development of national socialism , marxism -- leninism , and the state of capitalism in the latter half of the 20th century .
involved in politics in his home country of hungary , vajda was expelled along with several other scholars from the hungarian socialist workers party in 1973 due to allegedly representing views that were `` opposed to marxism -- leninism and to the policy of the hungarian socialist workers ' party . ''
vajda was one of the original members of georg lukács 's `` budapest school '' , hungarian theorists who began as neo-marxists but moved on to what they called post-marxist and also post-modern perspectives .
writing primarily in hungarian , but with many works translated into english , vajda 's works treat such themes as the past and future of state socialism in europe and fascism as a mass phenomenon .
vajda continues to draw , like other members of the original budapest school , from a marxist legacy in seeking to examine the state of contemporary liberal society .
recently , he has been involved in a controversy concerning critical remarks made respecting the hungarian government , and specifically government policies that challenged free media .
in a notable show of support for vajda and his colleague fellow hungarian theorist Ágnes heller , jürgen habermas and julian nida-rümelin wrote a public appeal in defense of vajda and heller , insisting that `` we are concerned about the political and professional fate of our hungarian colleagues ... under the nationalist government , which has used its two-thirds majority to erode the hungarian constitution , they are again exposed to political persecution . ''
