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| '''Ante Starčević''' (]-]) was a ]n ] in the times of the ]. | '''Ante Starčević''' (]-]) was a ]n ] and ] in the times of the ]. | ||
| Starčević co-founded the ] in the ] in ]. His and ]'s "Party of Rights" was named after the ] national and ethnic rights that they vowed to protect, calling for greater Croatian autonomy and self-rule at a time when Croatia was divided into several ]s within the ]. | Starčević co-founded the ] in the ] in ]. His and ]'s "Party of Rights" was named after the ] national and ethnic rights that they vowed to protect, calling for greater Croatian autonomy and self-rule at a time when Croatia was divided into several ]s within the ]. | ||
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| The picture of Ante Starčević appears on the 1000 ] banknote. At his deathbed, he requested that no monuments be raised to his honor, but this wish was eventually ignored in ] when a statue of him was put up in ]. | The picture of Ante Starčević appears on the 1000 ] banknote. At his deathbed, he requested that no monuments be raised to his honor, but this wish was eventually ignored in ] when a statue of him was put up in ]. | ||
| As per findings made by the Croatian historians M.Gross and I. Goldstein, Starčević was a racist and an anti-semite. | |||
| His understanding of the basic human rights and linking them to the civil liberties is extremely primitive and selective. For example, Starčević criticized the socialism as "unshaped" and he was delighted by the colonialism and claimed that "Algeria should be densely populated by a few million of happy Frenchmen and not to allow to have one hundred fifty thousand of them against two and half million of Arabs". | |||
| Starčević had based his racism upon writings of those ancient Greek writers who thought that some people, by their very nature, are slaves, for they had "just half of the human mind" and, for that reason, they "shall be governed by people of the human nature". About the people and nations which he saw as cursed and lower ranked races - he spoke as of the animal breeds and uses the "breed" word to mark them. | |||
| He wrote a whole tractate about the Jews that could be summarized this way: - »Jews ... are the breed, except a few, without any morality and without any homeland, the breed of which every unit strives to its personal gain, or to its relatives' gain«. To let the Jews to participate in public life is dangerous: »throw a piece of mud in a glass of the clearest water - then all the water will be puddled«. That way the Jews »spoiled and poisoned the French people too much«. | |||
| But, there are the worse ones than the Jews! For Starčević, the »Slavoserb« notion was firstly of a political nature: the »Slavoserbs« are his political opponents who "sold themselves to a foreign rule«. Then all those who favorably look on the South Slavs unity not regarding them (the South Slavs) as the Croats. Later, and with years, Starčević more and more marks the »Slavoserbs« as a separate etnic group, or - as he used to say the "breed", ranked, as humans, lower than the Jews: | |||
| »The Jews are less harmful than the Slavoserbs. For the Jews care for themselves and their people ... but the Slavoserbs are always for the evil: if they cannot gain a benefit, then they tend to harm the good or just affair, or to harm those who are for the affair.« - he wrote. Further, he claims that the injustice was done to different »cursed breeds« what spoiled those breeds even more and made them »to be vengeful against their opressors«. As a convinced racist, he stresses that to the »cursed breeds«, i.e. to the lower races should not be given any role in the public life. | |||
| As an aged man, he makes the Serbs identical to the »Slavoserb breed« and mocks them for their defeats they suffered long ago - which provoked negative reactions even in his "Party of Rights". On that ocassion, the Party member Erazmo Barčić (1894.) described Starčević's mockery and racism as »throwing mud at people and primitive cheeky invectives«. | |||
| ==References== | |||
| Mirjana Gross, Izvorno pravaštvo – ideologija, agitacija, pokret, Golden marketing, Zagreb, 2000. | |||
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| Barišić, Pavo, Ante Starčević (1823-1896) // Liberalna misao u Hrvatskoj / Feldman, Andrea ; Stipetić, Vladimir ; Zenko, Franjo (ur.).Zagreb : Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, 2000. | |||
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Ante Starčević (1823-1896) was a Croatian politician and statesman in the times of the Kingdom of Hungary.
Starčević co-founded the Croatian Party of Rights in the Croatian Parliament in 1861. His and Kvaternik's "Party of Rights" was named after the Croatian national and ethnic rights that they vowed to protect, calling for greater Croatian autonomy and self-rule at a time when Croatia was divided into several crown lands within the Habsburg Monarchy.
Starčević was a deputy in the Croatian Parliament for over thirty years. His fervent patriotism would subsequently earn him the title of Father of the Nation.
The picture of Ante Starčević appears on the 1000 kuna banknote. At his deathbed, he requested that no monuments be raised to his honor, but this wish was eventually ignored in 1998 when a statue of him was put up in Zagreb.
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