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Memorandum Addressed by The Jugoslav Socialists to The International Socialist Peace Conference in Stockholm

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We are publishing our Memorandum for the information of Socialist and bourgeois public opinion in Europe on the subject of the Jugoslav Question which is so little known and so much misunderstood abroad. As will be seen from this Memorandum, we Southern Slavs, or Jugoslavs (Serbs, Croats and Slovenes) are one single people which has been politically, nationally and economically subjugated. ISTow, every people which is oppressed by another is by that very fact debarred from evolving normally in any direction. All its forces are wasted in the struggle against the intolerable foreign yoke. Our Memorandum illustrates this fact with sufficient clearness.

Under these circumstances it is, of course, equally impossible for the Socialist movement to develop among the Southern Slavs, since all conditions favourable to a class struggle are lacking. The Jugoslav nation is cut up between Serbia &nd Montenegro, and a whole mass of units in the AustroHungaxiau Monarchy, which are politically, economically and administratively distinct from one another. For this reason, and so long as this State of dispersion shall continue, all progress of any kind is out of the question for this nation, whose national, political and economic aims arc nil common and identical.

No class of the Jugoslav population has suffered more front this than the proletariat. That is why our Socialists were the first to recognise the source of all the ills from which the whole nation is suffering and to understand the need for union. Instead of taking the direction of a separatist nationalism, as reflected in the various national designations among ihe Jugoslavs, they have put forward the collective national designation of Jugoslavs. This division of the Southern Slavs according to three national designations (Serb, Croat, Slovene) often played off one against the other by their oppressors, has done as much harm to the progress of each of them, and consequently also to the common progress of tall, as their politico-administrative dispersion. It was detrimental to the Socialist ideal — -so essentially one and indivisible— and particularly so within the heart of a single people, to have to submit to this forcible fnacture into Serb, Croat, Bosnian, Dalmatian, Slovene, etc., Socialist parties.

All these parties are compelled to assert themselves under differing conditions of life, to spend their principal efforts in divergent directions, and thus to dissipate the common strength in action, which is more often than not unfruitful and almost always insufficient. This situation, and the consciousness of the root of the evil, have urged the Jugoslav Socialists to come in touch with each other through a congress

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320.531

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California : University of California Libraries., 2024

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English

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Firli

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