Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Narrow Socialists)
Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers Party Българска работническа социалдемократическа партия | |
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| Founded | 1903 |
| Ideology | Marxism |
Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Narrow Socialists) (Bulgarian: Българска работническа социалдемократическа партия (тесни социалисти), Balgarska rabotnicheska sotsialdemokraticheska partia (tesni sotsialisti)) was a marxist socialist political party in Bulgaria. The party's origins lays in in 1903 after a split in the 10th Congress of the Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party.[1] The other faction formed the Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers Party (Broad Socialists). The party's leader was Dimitar Blagoev was the driving force behind the formation of the BSDWP in 1894. It comprised most of the hardline Marxists in the Social Democratic Workers' Party, which followed the doctrine of class struggle. In 1909 the Social Democratic Union 'Proletarian' that had been expelled from the Narrow Socialists, merged into the Broad Socialist party. On the Zimmerwald Conference, where the unraveling of the coalition between revolutionary socialists and reformist socialists in the Second International began, the party supported the so-called Zimmerwald Left. It opposed World War I and was sympathetic to the October Revolution in Russia. Under the influence of the Bolsheviks the narrow socialists accepted the ideas of Leninism. Under Blagoev's leadership, the party applied to join the Communist International in 1919. Upon joining the Comintern the party was reorganised as the Bulgarian Communist Party.