Tablet reports that the city council of Budapest will follow through on plans to remove what the magazine reverentially calls a statue of "the renowned Jewish literary critic and Marxist theoretician György Lukács." The action is described as part of a "reinvigorated assault by the pro-Trump, right-wing government of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, against what it perceives to be its liberal opposition."

Lukács was one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century and one of the founders of Western Marxism. Tablet praises his work as being "devoid of the dreariness of much doctrinaire Marxist literary criticism" and says "his complex legacy does not fit at all with in the framework envisioned by with the new Hungarian nationalism."

"The philosopher’s melancholy statue," Tablet continues, will reportedly will be replaced by one of Saint Stephen, who founded the Hungarian state a thousand years ago.

The removal of Lukács' statue is, Tablet writes, "symptomatic of the crisis of liberalism that much of Europe currently finds itself facing." It also "constitutes the latest salvo in the decades-long 'Lukács debate' over the place of the brilliant philosopher within the pantheon of Hungarian history." [Emphasis added]

In addition, complains Tablet, the removal "dovetails with the government’s campaign to shutter a major university founded by the Hungarian-American financier and philanthropist George Soros. In this way, the astringent anti-Soros agenda of the American Trump right and the European populists have converged."

The magazine refers to "the American Trump right's" "anti-Soros agenda," but there is no mention of the anti-American agenda of the vastly influential and subversive Soros, who is described neutrally, perhaps even admiringly, by Tablet as merely a "financier and philanthropist."

For more about Soros, check out the profile of him here at the Freedom Center's resource database called Discover the Networks.