Parazitismul social. Reguli și norme pentru societatea omului nou
Social parasitism. Rules and norms for the New Man society

Summary/Abstract: At the beginning of the 70s, Romania’s young generations came to the attention of party officials. The years of liberalizations (1965-1968) had led to the „contamination“of youth with Western cultural productions which entered into contradiction with the rigid norms of the socialist system. From Ceausescu’s perspective, the young were tempted by anarchist ideas which required an increase in political education.Consequently, the party decided to intervene to impose discipline and educate the young generation according to the objectives of socialist society, which meant an interruption of the liberalization course. Press campaigns, TV programmes, legislative measures, and public conferences were intended to bring the youth back onto the right path of building the communist society. The ideal young communist imagined by the regime, devoted to the party and country, fully social integrated, was endangered by the avalanche of cultural models imported from the West. Jeans, colorful shirts, fashion of the long hair,both for women and men, and strong colours of everyday clothing shocked in a conservative socialist society. On the contrary, the regime wanted to promote the exemplary young citizen whose interests, aspirations and ideals were the same with those of socialist society.The Securitate (secret police) was deeply involved in the surveillance and correction of the youths’ behaviour. State control was directed at leisure, student club activities, the limitation of distribution of Western music and movies or listening to foreign radio stations, especially Radio Free Europe. But despite the all restrictions and political pressure, the young generation did not give up to individualizing itself within socialist society.

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