DRAGOŠ KALAJIĆ KAO PRENOSILAC IDEJA ĐULIJA EVOLE
DRAGOŠ KALAJIĆ AS TRANSMITTER OF JULIUS EVOLA’S IDEAS

Summary/Abstract: 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.

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