He maintained that the notion simply implied "a juster distribution of the national income", and the "collective" but peaceful "redemption of an entire class." Ralea's time at "Dreptatea" overlapped with the emergence of fascism, whose leading Romanian representatives were members of the Iron Guard. This violent movement had been temporarily banned in 1931, by order of a PNȚ Interior Minister, Ion Mihalache. Mihalache's ban followed repeated requests by the party's left-wingers, Ralea included. Ralea had his own brush with the Guard in late 1932, when he was presiding upon symposiums on French literature at "Criterion Society". One of the sessions, focusing on André Gide, was interrupted, on Crainic's instigation, by Guardsmen under Mihai Stelescu, who assaulted "Criterion" activists and created a bustle. By 1933, Ralea had quarreled with the "Criterion" cell, which had since adopted "new generation" idealism and sympathy for the Iron Guard. In private, he also dismissed the Guard's new convert and ideologue, Nae Ionescu, as a "trickster" and a "barber". The issue of Romanian fascism became stringent after the Guard assassinated Romanian Premier Ion G. Duca. In his articles, Ralea described the National Liberal administration as "insane and degenerate" for continuing to tolerate the Guard's existence, instead of jailing its leaders. At "Dreptatea", protesting against the Guard's assault of the leftist intellectual Alexandru Graur, Ralea decried fascism in Romania as an "island of Doctor Moreau", an experiment in the growth of "blind and absurd mysticism". In 1935, 161 of Ralea's essays were collected and published at Editura Fundațiilor Regale as "Valori" ("Values"). They predicted the emergence of a stable civilization, conformist and collectivist, whose great merit was the elimination of careerism. Ralea synthesized his critique of fascism in the 1935 essays on "The Right's Doctrine", taken up by "Dreptatea" and "Viața Românească". These texts described the far-right and fascism as parasitical phenomena, feeding on democracy's errors, with an ignorant mindset, incapable of subtlety. His assessments were countercriticized by Guardist intellectual Toma Vlădescu, in the newspaper "Porunca Vremii".