László Molnárfi once believed in the purity of revolutionary struggle.
That was until he met Pearse Street gurriers.
The prolific Trinity College socialist has been sent to political Coventry by his former comrades for daring to air the bleak realities of an otherwise buoyant Irish left on the topic of proletariat-crushing levels of mass migration into Ireland.
A TCDSU President and contributing writer for the left-leaning Trinity News, Molnárfi has long been on the radar of many Trotskyist fellow travellers for his slightly more machismo approach to overthrowing bourgeois society—even broaching the shortcomings of the Irish left through a carefully worded op-ed on the need for a dirtbag (i.e. anti-woke) left.
It was thus no surprise when it was revealed this week that Molnárfi had been axed from the PBP-adjacent writing collective Red Network, with his profile duly scrubbed.
A man known to reply in 10,000 words when only ten normally suffice, Molnárfi returned fire in what can only be described as a ChatGPT-inspired rejoinder, accusing the Network of indulging in “subjective libidinal factors” as he expressed sympathies for recent upheaval in Citywest.
In plain terms, László attempted in vain to rein in the left on the question of mass-migration—knowing too well that the nationalist right, however dysfunctional for now, is destined to steal the left’s thunder not just in working-class estates but in the counter-cultural arena.
A son of privilege by way of Hungarian Eurocrats, László has been known to test the waters with his Irish comrades within and without the Byzantine world of Arts Bloc socialism.
Readers may recall with fondness the revolutionary leader being escorted by the Public Order Unit when a misguided TCD trot ventured to counter nativist locals during the Battle of Sandwith Street in 2023.
Years of reading Žižek and Mark Fisher left TCD trots ill-prepared to deal with Pearse Street Fenians—and locals aggrieved at Kurdish down-and-outs setting up camp beside where their daughters walked to school.
This Pearse Street foray did much to damage PBP—not only within antifascist circles in Dublin, but among locals—and perhaps got the Hungarian thinking on the topic of mass migration.
Having stared too long into the dialectic, the dialectic finally stared back at the TCD reds from a flat window on Pearse Street, shouting: “Go back to Trinity, ya muppets!”
In the end, László’s greatest mistake wasn’t his flirtation with the dirtbag left—it was assuming the Irish working-class would read Žižek before throwing a punch at the gormless trots pushing replacement migration on their doorstep.
For all his synonymous manifestos and mega-threads, Molnárfi’s true education began the moment he crossed Pearse Street and learned that, in the twenty-first century—whether in Budapest or Ballymun—the actual working-class is more likely to slit the throat of communists once they reveal their true designs with regard to migration.
As neoliberal open-border ideology loses its moral monopoly, the Irish left faces the same question as the right once did: can it speak for a people, or only about them?
It takes a special kind of courage to tell Ireland’s left what it already knows but dares not admit—that the working class no longer believes them. For his trouble, László Molnárfi has been rewarded with excommunication.
Every so often, Ireland’s radical left discovers reality—and promptly tries to expel whoever noticed it first. László Molnárfi is merely the latest to learn that class analysis is all well and good, until it points in the wrong direction.
Back to the Arts Bloc re-education camp with him, we think!
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