The Bulgarian Social Democratic Union ( bg, Български социалдемократически съюз) was a Bulgarian leftist group founded in 1892.
History
In 1892 a group, led by
Yanko Sakazov
Yanko Ivanov Sakazov ( bg, Янко Иванов Сакъзов; 24 September 1860 – 2 February 1941Heumos, Peter. Europäischer Sozialismus im Kalten Krieg: Briefe und Berichte 1944 - 1948'. Frankfurt/Main .a. Campus-Verl, 2004. p. 55) was a ...
, founded a
reformist
Reformism is a political doctrine advocating the reform of an existing system or institution instead of its abolition and replacement.
Within the socialist movement, reformism is the view that gradual changes through existing institutions can eve ...
organization, the ''Bulgarian Social Democratic Union'' (hence their name, ''Unionists''). This group was opposed by another one,
marxist
Marxism is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a Materialism, materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand S ...
Bulgarian Socialdemocratic Party
The Bulgarian Social Democratic Party ( bg, Българска социалдемократическа партия, translit=Balgarska Socialdemokraticheska Partiya; ) was the first name of the party created by Dimitar Blagoev on the 1891 Buzlu ...
(later called ''Partists''), which was headed by
Dimitar Blagoev
Dimitar Blagoev Nikolov (, mk, Димитар Благоев Николов; 14 June 1856 – 7 May 1924) was a Bulgarian political leader and philosopher. He was the founder of the Bulgarian left-wing political movement and of the first social- ...
. In 1894, Blagoev’s supporters agreed to unite with the Unionists in the interests of working class unity and took the name ''
Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party''. The First Congress (July 1894), at which the Unionists were in the majority, adopted a program and statutes that were primarily reformist. They gained the majority in the leadership.
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Defunct political parties in Bulgaria
Political parties disestablished in 1894
Political parties established in 1892
Social democratic parties in Bulgaria
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