Fețele leninismului: o analiză ideologică a totalitarismului sovietic în Romănia socialistă (1948-1989)
The Facets of Leninism: An Ideological Analysis of Soviet Totalitarianism in Socialist Romania (1948-1989)

Summary/Abstract: The following article deals with Emanuel Copilaș’s interpretation of Leninism as a key concept in explaining altogether the foreign policies, the roots of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s nationalism in the 1970-1980’s and the social effects of the economic and social policies of the communist regime after 1965 in Romania. Since Emanuel Copilaș focuses largely on the factual concreteness of ideological thinking inasmuch as ideology itself is posited as outside reality, but capable of altering the same reality from within, our analysis draws on the Marxist criticism that could be made to any ideology, including the varieties of Leninism identified or just utilized by Emanuel Copilaș. Hence, we will attempt to subvert and negate the very possibility of any ideological construct to be separable from the social praxis it pretends to radically change. Finally, the place of real social relations will be referred to as the nexus of all fetishistic ideological viewpoints, which may carry a high degree of truth, as long as this truth has been already present in the fabric of social exchange, private consumption and material production.

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