fasc-article-p65_1.pdf
The Iron Guard and the 'Modern State'. Iron Guard Leaders Vasile Marin and Ion I. Moţa, and the ‘New European Order’
by Mircea Platon
In a 1933 programmatic article, the Legionnaire leader, ideologue, and ‘martyr’ Vasile Marin wrote that political concepts such as ‘the Right,’ ‘the Left,’ and ‘extremism’ lost their relevance in Romania, as well as in Europe. They had been replaced by a ‘totalitarian view of the national life,’ which was common to Fascism, National-Socialism, and the Legion. The present article aims to consolidate the conceptual gains of new consensus historiography, which views the Iron Guard as part of a global revolutionary movement that was spurred by the practice of a political religion promising a ‘national rebirth’ or a complete cultural and anthropological renewal. Far from militating for national autarchy and populist-agrarian conservatism, the two Legionnaire leaders discussed in the article sought to align Romania with the modernizing, industrializing drive of European Fascism.
by Mircea Platon
In a 1933 programmatic article, the Legionnaire leader, ideologue, and ‘martyr’ Vasile Marin wrote that political concepts such as ‘the Right,’ ‘the Left,’ and ‘extremism’ lost their relevance in Romania, as well as in Europe. They had been replaced by a ‘totalitarian view of the national life,’ which was common to Fascism, National-Socialism, and the Legion. The present article aims to consolidate the conceptual gains of new consensus historiography, which views the Iron Guard as part of a global revolutionary movement that was spurred by the practice of a political religion promising a ‘national rebirth’ or a complete cultural and anthropological renewal. Far from militating for national autarchy and populist-agrarian conservatism, the two Legionnaire leaders discussed in the article sought to align Romania with the modernizing, industrializing drive of European Fascism.