Bulgarian Workers' Social Democratic Party
Bulgarian Workers' Social Democratic Party Българска работническа социалдемократическа партия | |
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Founded | July 1894 |
Dissolved | 1907 |
Merger of | BSP BSDU |
Succeeded by | BSDWP (NS) BSDWP (BS) |
Ideology | Marxist socialism Social democracy |
Political position | Left-wing |
Colours | red |
The Bulgarian Workers' Social Democratic Party (Bulgarian: Българска работническа социалдемократическа партия, romanized: Balgarska rabotnicheska sotsialdemokraticheska partiya; BRSDP) was a Bulgarian leftist group founded in 1894.[1]
History
In July 1891, on the initiative of
The struggle of the Marxist wing against the reformists brought its first significant results at the Fourth Congress (July 1897). Congress changed the statutes and decided to publish the newspaper Rabotnicheski vestnik for agitation and propaganda among the workers. Blagoev became the editor of the theoretical organ, the magazine Novo vreme, which was published beginning in January 1897. In 1900, in the context of extensive peasant unrest in Bulgaria, the reformist elements grouped themselves around the magazine Obshto delo, edited by Sakyzov, which propagandized the idea of class cooperation. The Eighth Congress of the party (July 1901) rejected this idea. A split was unavoidable due to deep ideological and tactical differences within the party. At the Tenth Party Congress in 1903, the Marxists formed a separate Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Narrow Socialists). The reformists, so-called Broad Socialists, who wanted to transform the party into a broad organization of all “productive strata”, formed their reformist party, the Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers Party (Broad Socialists).