If overdue propagandist Marga Calorifer is what the Kremlin can manufacture as a trumpet in Romania, we really have no reason to worry too much. Bold as a milestone, heavy as a millstone, a person like rancid margarine. I have known him since the 70s, he combined academic and political ascension. He was an erudite, had a scientific internship in the West. Head of the Student University Center of Cluj. Paid position. He was a reliable activist of the “ideological front”. Not sharp, but thorough, persistent, thoughtful. Was he a Marxist by conviction, like, say, Jon Alois and Kalina Mare? I doubt. Rather, he became a Marxist-Leninist-Czeusist through opportunism, and also through opportunism he became an anti-communist.

After 1990, I was one of those who advised him to establish the Faculty of Political Sciences in Cluj. I remember a lecture I gave in the Aula Magna. To my delight, Adrian Marino and Mircea Zacu were in the room. I wrote a letter of recommendation for a fellowship he received at the Woodrow Wilson International Science Center. Together with his wife Delia, Andriy Marga visited my home in Washington several times. Once, I remember, for dinner, where I invited the teacher Gail Kligman. I was also their guest in Cluj.

The situation definitely worsened in 2012, when Marga became the ideological headwind of uselism. He has caught up with the world’s most loathsome online publisher. He surrendered with his arms and baggage to Ponti, Antonescu, and Felix. It fell headlong into the nationalistic hotbed of the landlocked country, extremely shamefully. He has created a court of sycophants that he can count on anytime, anywhere, any way.

Ten years have passed. I do not know whether Andriy Marga was an informer, we know that he informed. Including about an anthropology teacher from the West, whom he diligently nurtured. I do not know now, when I write these lines, whether Marga is a paid agent of Russia, but I can see that she behaves that way. And if he does it out of conviction, it is an aggravating circumstance. The article is published on Contributors.ro