Sursele intelectuale ale populismului suveranist din România contemporană, de la comunism la postcomunism
Intellectual sources of sovereign populism in contemporary Romania, from communism to postcommunism

Summary/Abstract: As an ideological element integrated into the national-communist dogma that survives in the populist discourse of Romanian post-communism, protochronism has an ancestry in the ethnonationalist intellectual and ideological discourse of the interwar period. More specifically, I consider protochronism to be a collective form of elitism that places the cultural and civilizational creations and achievements of the Romanian people (in its ethnicist, tribalist, "nation" sense) in the vanguard of everything that exists at the world level. Fully in line with the new nationalist policy of the party-state of the Ceaușescu regime, especially in the eighth decade of the last century, protochronism still survives today in the Romanian collective mentality, feeding populist sovereignty.

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