{"id":747,"date":"2007-06-30T04:53:47","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T18:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=747"},"modified":"2007-06-30T19:41:25","modified_gmt":"2007-06-30T09:41:25","slug":"gavrilo-princip-serbian-national-anarchist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=747","title":{"rendered":"Gavrilo Princip: Serbian national-anarchist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Gavrilo Princip<\/em> (1894&#8211;1918) is the man widely blamed for starting WWI (and thereby kickstarting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.ac.uk\/reviews\/paper\/eric.html\">the short twentieth century<\/a>). How? Apparently, by shooting dead  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.franzferdinand.co.uk\/\">an Austrian aristocrat<\/a> (and his missus) in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914.<\/p>\n<p>Long story.<\/p>\n<p>Odd thing is, for some, Princip has gone down in history as an anarchist. For example, successful white filmmaker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelmoore.com\/\">Michael Moore<\/a> writes in <em>Stupid White Men<\/em> (HarperCollins, 2001, p.188) of the former Yugoslavia:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This godforsaken corner of the world has been the source of much of our collective misery for the last century. Its residents&#8217; inability to get along &#8212; with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/news\/National\/Tennis-Open-marred-by-ethnic-violence\/2007\/01\/15\/1168709659874.html\">Serbs fighting Croats<\/a> fighting Muslims fighting Macedonians fighting Albanians fighting Kosovars fighting Serbs &#8212; can be traced to the following single event: in 1914 a Serb anarchist by the name of Gavrilo Princip assassinated the Archduke Ferdinand. This incident kicked off World War I. Which led to World War II. Over fifty million people died from both wars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More recently, an observant Peter Sain ley Berry comments (<a href=\"http:\/\/euobserver.com\/9\/24382\">The criminal heirs of 28 June 1914<\/a>, <strong>EUobserver.com<\/strong>, June 29, 2007) that &#8220;The popular myth is that a young anarchist, Gavrilo Princip, fired the shots that triggered the First World War. As with all such myths, the truth is more complex.&#8221; An interesting version of which may be found in John Zerzan&#8217;s essay &#8216;Origins and Meaning of World War I&#8217;, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telospress.com\/\">Telos<\/a><\/em>, No.49 (Fall 1981); as it happens, the first essay of his I ever read (also available in <em>Elements of Refusal<\/em>).<\/p>\n<ul>&#8220;I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.&#8221; ~ Gavrilo Princip, reply when interviewed in court (October, 1914)<\/p>\n<p><em>See also<\/em> : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/books\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9401607\">Museums in Sarajevo: Princip&#8217;s footsteps<\/a>, <em>The Economist<\/em>, June 28 2007<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gavrilo Princip (1894&#8211;1918) is the man widely blamed for starting WWI (and thereby kickstarting the short twentieth century). How? Apparently, by shooting dead an Austrian aristocrat (and his missus) in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. Long story. 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