Васил_Главинов
Животопис
The editorial The Parties and the Workers' in the newspaper Rabotnicheska Iskra refers to the 'People's Federal Party' and 'The Union of the Bulgarian Constitutional Clubs' as being Bulgarian parties in Macedonia and the region of Odrin, February 15th, 1909 ''... We shall not now discuss the other parties which are represented in Parliament. We would like now to say a few things about the Bulgarian parties which have been formed in Macedonia and in the Odrin region and which probably will play an important role in the future. Today, there are two main parties in Macedonia and in the Odrin region: one is the party of the Macedonian-Adrianople Constitutional Clubs; the other - that of Yane Sandanski and Hristo Chernopeev recently named the 'Bulgarian People's Federal Party.' For the workers in Macedonia and in the region of Odrin it is most important to know what is the nature of these parties and how to behave towards them, or, to put it another way, what their attitude towards them should be. And, indeed, what are these parties? Here we shall consider these two parties only in general lines, and another time, if necessary, we shall discuss them in detail. In essence, the two parties express the strivings of two different classes - the Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Constitutional Party represents the interests of the merchants and industrialists, of the factory owners, and rich craftsmen who tomorrow will turn into industrialists and wholesale merchants, of the contractors, the rich peasants and pawnbrokers, in brief, of the class which is called the urban or bourgeois class. As a party of a class, which is nationalistic, which wants to un­ite with its 'brothers' in Bulgaria, the Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Constitutional Party is equally nationalistic and all its strivings and ideals are those of the Bulgarian bourgeoisie in Macedonia and the region of Odrin. In contrast, the Bulgarian Federal Party is the representative of the petty merchants, artisans and peasants, of the grocers and innkeepers, in short, of what is called the petty bourgeoisie. Thus, if the first is a bourgeois party, the second is a petty bourgeois party. The fact that the latter sides with the farm workers and with the poor peasants in general and stresses as a special point on its programm a demand for social reform, in the sense that the government should give land to these peasants - this fact does not in itself make it any better than a petty bourgeois party, which it is in essence. Because, first of all, it regards the problem of the social reform as a means of creating more petty owners, i.e. a more numerous petty bourgeois class, as a solution to what is today called a 'social problem'; secondly, 'this same social reform is the aim of the Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Constitutional Party, except that for this party, the reform has a different, a purely bourgeois meaning. On the other hand, the Bulgarian Federal Party is also as nationalistic as the first party. The difference lies in the fact that the first party wants the Bulgarians to be united with Bulgaria under any conditions, while the second party wants this only providing that there is no monarchism,-etc., in Bulgaria. At least, this is what their words give one to understand. But it is precisely this that suits a class which itself has hazy, ill-defined aspirations as do the petty bourgeoisie and the mass of the peasants. At any rate, the declining petty bourgeois class also is for joining with its 'brothers,' since it sees its salvation in this. And the more it declines with the development of capitalism in Turkey, the more it will lean towards Bulgaria, the stronger Bulgarian nationalism will become, and that is why the Bulgarian People's Federal Party will become more nationalistic ... В-к. "Работническа искра", Битоля, бр. 4, 5.II.1909 г., (Newspaper Rabotnicheska Iskra), No. 4, Febr. 15, 1909; the original is in Bulgarian.''