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De la internaţionalismul socialist la naţional-comunism
From socialist internationalism to national-communism

Author(s): Mihai Ghiţulescu
Subject(s): Political history, Nationalism Studies, History of Communism
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: socialism; communism; nationalism; internationalism; history;

Summary/Abstract: Twenty years after the fall of the communist regime we still feel working its ideological mechanisms. The main reason is our incapacity to understand what happened in society during the four decades of communist rule. We thought that it is enough to know the facts and to blame the perpetrators (although we never actually did that). But this is only the first step. Furthermore, we must take an analytic approach. That is why, in this article I aim to analyze the way in which communism mixed with nationalism in Romania. I have a look at the principles of socialist internationalism, at the practice of the so-called „nationalcomunism” in several socialist/communist countries and, finally, I focus on the Romanian pattern, showing its ideas and its functioning. My conclusion is that the „national-communism” is not a specific type of nationalism, but a simple rhetoric, ignoring any sense and mixing demagogically coloured elements from both ideologies.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 21+22
  • Page Range: 41-58
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Romanian