![Cover for: A betrayal by the intellectuals](https://www.eurozine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/55a5e3379396170bcb334f290b493e98.jpg)
Hopes of a smooth transition from ‘goulash communism’ to market economies have long since been dashed by the ‘post-Soviet mafia-state’ in Hungary. But to what extent are liberal intellectuals themselves responsible, through their elitist disdain for the rest of the population, for the decline of democracy in Hungary?