Platonova Država u Nezavisnoj Državi Hrvatskoj. Ideja, stvarnost i cenzura
Plato’s Republic in the Independent State of Croatia (1941–1945) Ideas, Reality and Censorship

Summary/Abstract: This analysis of works on Plato’s Republic written by Croatian intelectuals of right political wing in the Independent State of Croatia (1941–1945) is trying to represent the political thought of rights in contemporary Croatia. Analisys is concentrated on the ways by which those intelectuals used Plato and his vision of perfect state to legitimize totalitarian state such as the Independent State of Croatia, and totalitarian political movements such as the Ustashe movement, but also to criticise them. Both legitimization and critique that can derive from the Plato’s work should not be a surprise: organicism and monistic totalitarianism (State as the One) coincided with the goal of right wing movements in contemporary Europe, but at the same time the failure to reach such an ideal could easily provide a source for the critique.

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