From Hard Communism to Soft Populism. Some Remarks on the Romanian Cultures of Nationhood
One of the topics shared indiscriminately both by the communist ideology and by its critics is collectivism. More precisely, it is the idea - of illustrious Hegelian descent - according to which under socialism in general and, particularly in Soviet-type societies, the individual is organically and hierarchically committed to the social sphere embodied by the state. The individual destiny is melt, programmatically and practically, in the greatness of the global project of the communist society, and the bright future of humanity must have pre-eminence in the face of the concreteness of every day life.
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