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Critica comunismului românesc. O lectură teologico-politică
The Critique of Romanian Communism. A Theological-Political Reading

Author(s): Daniel Barbu
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti
Keywords: Communism; totalitarianism; political theology; politics of retribution; guilt

Summary/Abstract: Communism has been sometimes described as a political religion. Marxism-Leninism, as the official ideology of state socialism was also qualified as a perverse form of political theology, if not as a counter-theology. The paper explores the theological-political assumptions that seem to underlie the various critiques, official, institutional and scholarly, addressed to the Romanian brand of communism after its downfall.

  • Issue Year: 10/2010
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 625-655
  • Page Count: 31
  • Language: Romanian
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