Virgil Gheorghiu on Communism, Capitalism and National Socialism
"Iuliu-Marius Morariu succeeds in opening the door of our curious gaze on memorialism, letting us get acquainted with the ideas promoted by Virgil Gheorghiu – an interwar diplomat, journalist, poet, novelist and Romanian Orthodox priest, who had to choose the path of exile (moving to France) once with the establishment of the Communist Regime in Romania." (Iulia Medveschi, in Astra Salvensis, X (2022), no. 19).
Virgil Gheorghiu, an important but controversial figure in Romanian exile literature, remains one of his country’s best-known writers today. Based on his works and their reception, but also on the existing secondary literature, this study examines his reflection on three important ideologies, namely communism, national socialism and capitalism, in order to highlight the specificities of Virgil Gheorghiu’s thought and to see what aspects of topicality and contemporary relevance can be found in it.
Iuliu-Marius Morariu holds a PhD in Theology from the Faculty of Orthodox Theology
“Babes,-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania and a PhD. in Social Sciences from
Angelicum Pontifical University, Rome, Italy. He published, edited, coordinated or
translated a couple of books, realizes several radio magazines and is part of the editorial
or scientific board of 12 journals. He is a researcher at the “Ioan Lupas,” Centre of
“Babes,-Bolyai” University in Cluj-Napoca and associate researcher at the Faculty of
Theology and Religion at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.