About the ‘unique working people’ and the place of national minorities within the ‘socialist nation’ Cover Image

Despre „poporul muncitor unic” și locul minorităţilor naţionale în cadrul „naţiunii socialiste”
About the ‘unique working people’ and the place of national minorities within the ‘socialist nation’

Author(s): Emanuel  COPILAȘ
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Fundaţia »Societatea Civilă« (FSC)
Keywords: Leninism; ethnic minorities; „socialist nation”; „unique working people”; paramodern identity; „revolutionary socialist patriotism”

Summary/Abstract: Nationalism represented a powerful semantic catalyst for romantic Leninism, by which I refer to the Romanian communist ideology during the „Ceausescu era”, a hybrid and unique combination of Leninism, German philosophical romanticism, extreme nationalism and also Fascism. Within romantic-Leninist ideology, the nation was an integrative and oppressively imposed „from above” concept used as an instrument to dissipate and identitary annihilate the ethnic minorities by forcibly circumscribing them to the „unique working people”.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 158
  • Page Range: 65-74
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Romanian