Anarchism in Bulgaria 3
Anarchism in Bulgaria
The Anarchist-Communist Mass Line: Bulgarian Anarchism Armed
In the early 20th Century, anarchism entrenched itself as a mass
organisational movement in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland -
anarchists having already been active in the 1873 uprisings in Bosnia
and Herzegovina against Austro-Hungarian control. But it was primarily
in Bulgaria and its neighbour Macedonia that a remarkable case of
anarchist organising arose, in the midst of the power-play between the
great powers.
This poorly-studied movement not only blooded itself in national
liberation struggles and armed opposition to both fascism and Stalinism,
but developed a notably diverse and resilient mass movement, the first
to adopt the controversial 1926 Platform of the Ukrainian Makhnovist
exiles in Paris 2 as its lodestone. For these reasons it is vital that
the revived anarchist-communist movement in the new millennium
re-examine the legacy of the Balkans. This article, which begins
mid-stream in 1919, is a version of an extract from the two-volume work
on anarchism & syndicalism, Counter-Power, co-written by Lucien van
der Walt, a global history and theory of the movement, which is due to
be published in book form by AK Press in the USA in 2008.
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