Video of a talk on Sima Marković, the first secretary of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and the party’s representative on the Executive Committee of the Communist International, in which I trace the intellectual roots of Marković’s politics. Contrary to the views of the Comintern which described him as an Austro-Marxist, and contemporary misinterpretations which attempt to place him in the Serbian nationalist pantheon, I claim that Marković’s views on the national question should be understood through his earlier adherence to revolutionary syndicalism, as well as the intellectual influences of Rosa Luxemburg and Anton Pannekoek.
The talk was delivered in Vienna on May 30th, 2021, at a conference called “Socialism in Central and Eastern Europe and Austro-Marxism.”
