Born 1904 - Kilifarevo, Bulgaria, died May 28th 1925 - Belovo, Bulgaria.
Born in Kilifarevo, Bulgaria on 14th August 1904, the student-actress Mariola Sirakova belonged to a well-off family. She revolted from an early age against her social background and became an anarchist communist when she went to the Girls High School at Tarnovo in 1919.
She regularly took part in secret anarchist meetings.
She began a relationship with another Bulgarian anarchist, Gueorgui Cheitanov. She associated with other important anarchists like Petar Maznev, Georgi Simeonov Popov, and others. In her frre time, she acted in the Orpheus Theatre Company in Kilifarevo. In 1922-23 she studied in Pleven. She often hid wanted anarchists like Vassil Popov and Valko Shankov
In 1923 a military coup led to the butchery of 35,000 workers and peasants. The armed resistance that followed ended with the bomb attack by the Communist Party on Sofia cathedral which was aimed at the country's elite. A massive campaign of repression was then unleashed by the fascists and military against the revolutionary movement.
Mariola was arrested by the police, and brutally beaten. In June 1924 she returned to Kilifarevo. She was arrested again, but soon released. She gave support to the Kilifarevo cheta (armed guerilla unit), bringing them food, medicine and clothes and caring for the wounded.
Special police detachments were set up to hunt Cheitanov down. All the guerrillas united into a single detachment, being forced to disperse towards the end of May. Cheitanov and Mariola Sirakova, were caught in an ambush and arrested. They were taken to Belovo railway station and shot with 12 other prisoners on May 28th June 1925.
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Obviously not coming from this at a racist angle but
Why did the United States end slavery? I dont buy that they did it to be good people, was it international pressure and capitalists competing with eachother? What am I missing?
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Word. A lot of revisionism tries to downplay the moral outrage, but it's literally in the battle hymn of the republic. I think a lot of it is Southern propaganda; It's easier for them to justify themselves if they can convince people that the North was just bullying them and no one actually cared about slavery.
But then you look at the Battle Hymn of the Republic and it's literally calling for a righteous holy crusade to crush "The Serpent" and free the slaves. When someone equates your entire way of life with Satan and says they're coming to free your slaves from bondage they definitely have moral concerns.
Plus the sheer number of people who jumped to volunteer to fight. I'm sure a lot of them were nationalism brained, but there are few causes more righteous than ending slavery and I'm sure that must of fired up some hearts.
And to the tune of John Brown's Body, which everyone would have known and also sends a clear message.
The traditional explanation is it was a contradiction between the bourgeois of the north and "free labour" and the landed gentry of the south - the areas in the south that were super pro slavery were also some of the most fertile, there were plenty of rougher terrain and less fertile areas in the south that had like a permanent counter confederacy struggle. Free labour knew they were in danger if slaves were allowed, instead of wages they'd be paid nothing and capitalists would eventually have to pick paying labour nothing over wages.
But there really were ideologically committed abolitionists, people who really did think slavery was a moral evil and couldn't accept the status quo of appeasement - and not just John Brown, lots of abolitionists fought in Bleeding Kansas, people really did belive and put their bodies on the line. On the southern side, they knew (correcrly) that if they couldn't keep getting more and more slave states and disallow escaped slaves from being captured and forcibly returned to the south then slavery would eventually be ground out and they wanted a final confrontation instead.
Lincoln didn't start with the emancipation proclamation as well, that came during the Civil War. Lincoln would've allowed slavery if it meant keeping the union together, it was the freaks in the south that insisted on the conflict.
Why racial chattle slavery came down to the fact that they couldn't keep white slaves or indigenous slaves, the white ones could just skip out of town to the next one over and take a new name. The indigenous ones could just leave to the woods and live off the land. African slaves were marked by their literal skin colour as slaves and they didn't know how to live off the land like the indigenous when they arrived. There were plenty of African-Ameircan former slave heroes who emancipated themselves and their families/people, it was just easier for the system as a whole to have this racial caste system.
Also! Marx and Engels both wrote about the Civil war as it was happening if you want their point of views
Maybe later, I should be reading two other things atm. Thank you for the write up
DuBois is really informative on this subject as well