(en) Turkey, DAF, Meydan #24 - "Anarchists in Bulgaria during
the Ottoman Period" - Zlatko F. (tr) [machine translation]
The origins of the opinion anarchists in Bulgaria there are many evidence linking the
early medieval Slavic commune. This is so egalitarian communes, some Byzantine historians
this order " anarchy "as they call it. ---- Once government power is well established in
this land, the struggle of the oppressed has been mostly in the form of religious orders.
The most powerful of Bogomilism; laws, taxes, state and falls close to anarchist thought
his refusal to religious authority. ---- In the Ottoman Empire, hajduk social struggles of
the oppressed (rogue) groups has taken the form. Most of them, the bandits if they are
poor people and they were followed correlated well appreciated. ---- Haji Age, justice,
and that they have gained so much fame as freedom fighters, Bulgarian "renaissance" period
(the second half of the 19th century), a model for the movement of nationalist freedom
fighters trained and have become examples. All the pressure of the Empire in one way or
another, this time carried out by hand, to destroy the Empire, Bulgaria understands the
difference between the establishment of an independent national state on behalf of the
people did not have a lot of people. Nevertheless, in the movement of freedom fighters for
the Federation of Balkan folk, even for the establishment of a stateless society, there
was a strong trend.
First contact with revolutionaries and international organized anarchism in Bulgaria was
in April 1869. "Young Bulgaria" organization of two representatives met Mikhail Bakunin
and Sergey Neçhaev'l in Geneva. The same year, Bakunin, the magazine "to the Bulgarian
Revolution a draft," he wrote; Nechaev also "Kolokol" magazine, said that Turkish and
Bulgarian support freedom case against the Romanian state; The Bulgarian revolutionary in
Romania and in particular, Nechaev's "Handbook of Revolutionary" held captive for several
months because the Hristo Botev'l to deploy a lasting relationship founded. Other
anarchists in Russia like Nicholas Mele is not foreign to you and Nikolai Sudzilovsky
revolutionary in Bulgaria, but they are ignored to a large extent on the official Bulgarian.
Independent Bulgarian kingdom (1880s) immediately after the establishment of ideological
anarchism as a modern, very close "Pauperlikers called" a free social movement has
emerged. Mostly they do their translation into Bulgarian of the current text. The move was
eroded in the past 15 years, won the witch of capitalist society and local Marxist party
leaders.
World's most popular political issue for the Bulgarian people before the War is the rescue
of the Ottoman Empire. Therefore (end of 1890), consisting of the first anarchist circles
have focused much more on this issue.
Today, they are best known for "The crew" is. Bulgarian anarchist texts published and
distributed in Geneva with a small group of students "Geneva Workshop" which began;
Creating a larger group with their return to Bulgaria "Sailors" gave the name. Most of the
activities of the Group have been against the Ottoman Empire. The biggest action II.
Assassination attempt against Abdul Hamid, the Ottoman Bank in Istanbul bombing attempt
and succeed is the bombing of the Ottoman Bank in Thessaloniki (May 1, 1903). This action
is directed to the western capital of the empire, that the Empire itself.
"Sailors" in the selfless and courageous actions, especially in Bulgaria, ensure the
effectiveness of the organized anarchist ideas on freedom of movement. But in the process
of preparing the actual Ilinden Uprising at the end of the same year-Preobrazhenie are
hundreds of other anarchists. Uprising with a social revolution that occurred in public
organizations Stranca Mikhail Gerdzhikov, an important anarchist and (the predecessor
organization) fakb'n one of the founders. The organizers of the uprising, the participants
are the most well-known anarchist who referred to them in the famous song, but later, when
the people's knowledge of their history of state propaganda started to get completely rule
is easily forgotten.
After the Balkan wars of liberation of cases of Bulgarian citizens outside the borders of
Bulgaria was completely transformed into movement in the state propaganda and state-led.
The anarchist movement was also a struggle within the limits and directs the activities
against the Bulgarian state. These years, increasingly spread that come naturally to many
people go into action against the state, the most powerful in the movement. But that's
another story.
Zlatko F.
This text Square was published in the Journal of Number 24.
http://meydangazetesi.org/gundem/2015/02/osmanli-doneminde-bulgaristandaki-anarsistler-zlatko-f/
