What doesn't really work in Romania: political thinking or political practice?

In Romania social criticism has been focused for more than two decades on the political class, claimed to be corrupt, unable to reform itself and define its own policies. The political theory, defined ideologically or not, has somehow been assumed as existing and thus easily applicable. It has been assumed that political action is grounded on the ideological key concepts of privatization, limiting the role of state in the economy, democratization, human rights, restructuring of the administrative system, reform of justice, etc. The theoretical models that justify such actions have been usually imported, and imposed by Romania's accession to international organizations and political systems. The theoretical content of how Romania should have developed has been a key element in the criticism of the political system, which seems incapable of such performance. In this article I will show that in reality this theoretical approach to political action is not an issue for politicians, but for the social thinkers, and the failure to develop a strategic policy is, first of all, a problem of the Romanian social thinking not of politicians. One of Romania's problems is precisely that in Romania politicians aim to do social theory and political thinkers aim to do politics.