Utopia and Socialism in Romanian Historiography and Exegesis
Utopia and Socialism in Romanian Historiography and Exegesis

Summary/Abstract: The leading trend in Romanian historiography is the denunciation of the socialist utopia, as a predecessor of the 20th century totalitarian regimes. Any type of utopian thought has devastating effects because of the total engineering used in order to act upon the society. Utopian thought is set in a causal chain leading unavoidably to dictatorship via a violent revolution. I call this perspective the judicial history of utopia. A second paradigm of the historiography approach to utopia is the explanatory one, less present in the Romanian intellectual arena after 1989. This study aims to examine the articulations between utopia and socialism in an explanatory paradigm.

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