Macedonism

Thus, the Bulgarian "Macedonism" represented a crude dissimulation.

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The primordial "Macedonism" among the Bulgarians and Serbians of today´s FYROM was a spontaneous provincialism after the political separation of Bulgaria and the area of Povardarje via decisions of the Berlin Congress in 1878.

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Finally, the ideology of "Macedonism" appeared as an embrionic form and precursor to creation of the nominally "Macedonian" nation in Tito's Yugoslavia after 1944, although in the preceding decades it was nothing more than intellectual concept nurtured among few people, in opposition of the all-pervasive Bulgarian national feeling south of Skoplje and north and eastern of Pelagonia registered by great number of foreign visitors and recognized by scholars as such.

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Without searching first who actually was this V.K. Sugareff and his agenda, Mr. Stefov eagerly but unthinkingly enough hastened to label him as a pioneer of "Macedonism" and posted this article as an alleged irrefutable proof of the existence of considerable populations of self-proclaimed "ethnic Macedonians" who were fighting for their national emancipation 90 years ago.

American Chronicle 2009

Today VMRO-DPMNE consolidated itself a Demo-Christian party, with slight inartistic tendencies in economy, but with stronger points of consolidation regarding the imported and applied ideology of "Macedonism" in every aspect of individual and social life, with a strongly anti-individualistic, collectivist stance.

American Chronicle 2008

The lack of any success by exclusive Macedonism in late 19th century is flagrant as evidenced by foreign observes which considered the bulk of region´s Slavic population as Bulgarians.

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In retrospective, not only that Macedonism before 1913 wasn´t a form of self-identification separate from those of other Balkan´s Slavic and non-Slavic populations, which is evidenced by multitude of contemporary sources, but the earliest concrete manifestation of Macedonism was a case of a naïve artificial nativism, a construct without authentic foundation in that era´s ethnographic reality and without historical, deeper tradition.

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Then, due to Serbia’s policy in the region and the doctrine of Macedonism, changes in the mindset of the local population occurred, leading to the forming of the Macedonian nation.

Bulgaria, Macedonia: Blog Wars Over History 2008

The doctrine of Macedonism was supplementary to the doctrine of the Communist ideology and was imposed with the same means "

American Chronicle 2009