„CINE NU-I GATA…”: SOCIALISMUL ȘI TEMA AUTENTICITĂȚII SOCIALISMULUI CA MIZE ALE MODERNIZĂRII ROMÂNEȘTI LA ÎNCEPUTUL SECOLULUI XX
”READY OR NOT…”: SOCIALISM AND THE THEME OF SOCIALIST AUTHENTICITY AS STAKES OF ROMANIAN MODERNIZATION AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: Romanian modernization meant for the Romanian left, as well, a search among the European forms, for the selection of the most offering ones, in terms of country’s development and progress. During the first part of the 20th century, socialism was a promising European political form: the idea that the unavoidable finalities of history and modern politics are the socialist development, socialist consciousness and the socialist regime were an essential part of the newest trends expressing the transforming spirit of the epoch and this idea passed as indisputable truth for a sizable and heterogeneous mass of what we would call now “disenfranchised”. Idealism was combined with the pragmatic socialist drive for change. A powerful socialist feeling animating change and political struggle was idealist and indicated that “ideas are immortal and cannot be deterred as a water that cannot be stopped by dams and water stops” and, “as a struggling water force it could not have been impeded by armies, calumnies or jail”, “passing through forward and transforming society” (I. C. Frimu). This emphasizes the aspects of transformation and struggle were both present in the socialist trend and they have evolved as well together, in socialism, and separately in social-democracy and, respectively, in syndicalism. The socialist ideas grow and mature in the same rhythm as the socialist consciousness and a Romanian political and economic environment to which the socialist actions and opinions answer specifically both by relating to the internationalism of the socialist ideas and to the problems of development and modernization that are characteristic to the Romanian national state. Within the political discourse of the left, the theme of the authenticity of Romanian socialism stands out as a stake of national modernity.

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