Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 26 No. 3, 2006.
Original scientific paper
Plato’s "Republic" in the Independent State of Croatia (1941–1945). Ideas, Reality and Censorship
Višeslav Aralica
Abstract
This analysis of works on Plato’s "Republic" written by Croatian intelectuals of right political wing in the Independent State of Croatia (1941–1945) is trying to represent the political thought of rights in contemporary Croatia. Analisys is concentrated on the ways by which those intelectuals used Plato and his vision of perfect state to legitimize totalitarian state such as the Independent State of Croatia, and totalitarian political movements such as the Ustashe movement,
but also to criticise them. Both legitimization and critique that can derive from the Plato’s work should not be a surprise: organicism and monistic totalitarianism (State as the One) coincided with the goal of right wing movements in contemporary Europe, but at the same time the failure to reach such an ideal could easily provide a source for the critique.
Keywords
Plato; state; totalitarianism; Independent State of Croatia
Hrčak ID:
11177
URI
Publication date:
5.10.2006.
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