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Prof. Jovo Bakić, PhD
University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia

 

DRAGOŠ KALAJIĆ AS TRANSMITTER OF JULIUS EVOLA’S IDEAS

Vol. XLIII, 1/2025, pp. 163-178
https://doi.org/10.29362/ist20veka.2025.1.bak.163-178

 

ABSTRACT/RESUME:

Pa­per answers the que­sti­ons whet­her, when, who and how spre­ad far-right ide­as of Gu­i­lio ’Ju­li­us’ Evo­la in so­ci­a­list Yugo­sla­via. This re­se­arch shows that Evo­la’s idea penetrated Yugo­slav so­ci­a­list so­ci­ety by me­ans of pu­bli­cist ac­ti­vity of Dra­goš Ka­la­jić in the 1970s. In­de­ed, pa­in­ter and pu­bli­cist Dra­goš Ka­la­jić be­ca­me decisively in­tel­lec­tu­ally for­med un­der Evo­la’s in­flu­en­ce. He met his ro­le-mo­del, re­ad his works, and bo­oks writ­ten by ot­hers that Evo­la recommended to him. Ka­la­jić transferred Evo­la’s far-right re­ac­ti­o­nary ide­as, encompassed by the con­cept of “Tradition”, and expo­sed in the Re­volt aga­inst the mo­dern world, in his three bo­oks pu­blis­hed in so­ci­a­list Yugo­sla­via in the 1970s. If the far-right bo­oks, tho­ugh an­ti-ca­pi­ta­list, an­ti-Chri­sti­an and writ­ten in a so­mewhat her­me­tic form, were to­le­ra­ted in a so­ci­a­list co­untry even af­ter 1971, when Ti­to’s aut­ho­ri­ta­ri­an one-party so­ci­a­list re­gi­me beca­me mo­re ri­gid aga­inst ide­o­lo­gi­cal ene­mi­es, one can­not talk abo­ut to­ta­li­ta­ri­a­nism. However, it go­es wit­ho­ut saying that the­se ide­as were not ac­cep­ta­ble in a so­ci­a­list system. Rat­her, they were so pe­cu­li­ar at the ti­me, that Le­a­gue of Com­mu­nist of Yugo­sla­via and its cen­sors did not pay se­ri­o­us at­ten­ti­on to the­se pse­u­do-phi­lo­sop­hi­cal and re­ac­ti­o­nary ide­as, which co­uld be tre­a­ted as har­mless for the system.

 

KEYWORDS: Evo­la, Ka­la­jić, far-right, “Tra­di­ti­on”, so­ci­a­lism, Yugo­sla­via

 

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