Polish Social-Revolutionary Society
Towarzystwo Polskie Socjalno-Rewolucyjne | |
| Formation | May 20, 1872 |
|---|---|
| Founded at | Zürich |
| Dissolved | August 14, 1872 |
| Purpose | Anarchism, national liberation, revolutionary socialism |
| Affiliations | IWA |
Formerly called | Polish Social-Democratic Society |
The Polish Social-Revolutionary Society was the first Polish anarchist organization, founded in 1872 in Zürich by Polish emigrants.
Program[edit]
The program spoke of a social revolution aimed at workers' control the means of production and replacing the state and capitalism with a system based on workers' associations and independent communes. The program, recognizing the "right to independence and national development", proclaimed the slogan "Long live a free, socialist and democratic Poland!" It also emphasized that "Poland exists only where the people recognize and want to be Polish, and it ends where this people, not wanting to belong to the Polish union, joins a free union of another nationality."[1]
References[edit]
Bibliography[edit]
- Tych, Feliks (1975). Polskie programy socjalistyczne 1878–1918 (in Polish). Książka i Wiedza. pp. 555–558.
- Bakunin, Mikhail; Tokarzewicz, Józef (1872). "Programy Towarzystwa Polskiego Socjalno-Demokratycznego w Zurychu" (in Polish).