IDEOLOGISTS AND DOCTRINAIRES OF INTER-WAR RIGHT-WING INDEOLOGY

• Main Author: ALINA COSTEA DORLE
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Nicolae Titulescu University Publishing House 2012-05-01
• Series: Challenges of the Knowledge Society
• Subjects: Right-wing ideology; Nationalism; Orthodox spirituality; Anti-democracy
• Online Access: http://cks.univnt.ro/uploads/cks_2012_articles/index.php?dir=03_social_sciences%2F&download=cks_2012_social_sciences_art_010.pdf

In the socio-political context of inter-war Romania, an ample dynamic of proliferating right-wing ideology ideas was noted, emphasized by the radicalization of the intellectuals’ attitude and especially of the young generation’s attitude, having clear nationalist feelings. In this sense, a nationalist ideological, militant, and uncompromising direction is being set, focused on several definitive aspects, that mainly targets the promoting and preserving of the endemic characteristic. Thus, in his statements in the ‘30s, Mircea Eliade shapes a nationalistic ideology from philosophical positions, based on the sentiment of a historical spiritual mission of the generation, Vasile Marin expresses himself in offensive radical terms, specific to a repudiation campaign of the existing political models and to promoting of a new form of political expression, and Nichifor Crainic elaborates a nationalist doctrine from Orthodox-theological point of view. All these ideological attitudes, in spite of the inevitable limitations and traps of the political-ideologist scene of the 4th decade in the 20th century, remain, even though in time they have become repudiated and abandoned by even their authors, exciting milestones of a moment having an intense spiritual feeling.