The Ideological Identity of the Romanian Communist Party as Reflected in the Dialogues with the Left Belgian Political Formations
The Ideological Identity of the Romanian Communist Party as Reflected in the Dialogues with the Left Belgian Political Formations

Summary/Abstract: In the process of building socialism, like the other communist parties in Eastern Europe, PCR was based on a set of values and principles with origins in the Marxist-Leninist ideology. However, the dissident attitude of the Romanian communism towards Moscow in the sixties would imprint some peculiarities of a doctrinal identity. In PCR’s case, an expression of this identity has constantly manifested in the international relations engaged by the Romanian state, a domain in which Ceaușescu used to consider himself as a spokesman of the socialist doctrine. In its definition and argumentation, the concept of democracy was vital, both for the discourse of the socialist or communist parties in Western Europe and for that of the parties in the Eastern Block. But amid the historical demarcation between socialism and capitalism, the communist would use the concept of democracy in their own terms and acceptations, because, as compared to the political regimes with single party, the West-European communist/socialist parties had developed and functioned within multiparty democracies, sharing a different vision of the construction of socialism. The goal of the present article is to analyse the ideological identity of the Romanian communism, having as documentary source the content of the dialogues between PCR and the Belgian Left parties. The research identifies Ceaușescu’s vision on multiparty systems and regimes and on the ones with single party, as well as the concept of democracy in its particular acceptations.

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