The life of Georgi  Konstantinov in short sounds like this: \
rebellion … explosion … prison ... anarchy
The last one is the ideology that marks the entire 
 conscious life of the 81 years old man
Meet the oldest anarchist in Bulgaria!
When he was 15, Georgi Konstantinov got 
 his first accusationof being an anarchist.
 I was made to look like a true villain.
Terrorist! I hadn’t done anything.
When I was 15, someone told the authorities 
I had claimed to fill the Maritza river with corpses.
At 18 he was already an accomplished anarchist.
All his searches found an answer in the doctrine of anarchism - 
the abolition of all forms of hierarchy
Including the state. By all means.
What does it mean to be an anarchist? What do you believe in?
Love of freedom and not my own freedom but the freedom of others.
Can this love have a crosspoint with explosions?
In certain moments- yes, it can. 
Out of love for his homeland Georgi and 8 like-minded individuals
decided to blow up the huge statue of Stalin in Borisova Garden in Sofia 
on March 3rd. The year was 1953.
One of our friends was in the engineering corps of the army.
While he was conscripted, he was able to get explosives.
People who had been in the army knew how the bombs were made.
The other part was a matter of discovery. 
The discovery aimed to conceal  the smoke coming from the safety fuse 
before the explosion.
The fuse had to be hidden. 
We did that in a soldier canteen
with a cork  plug and rubber seals and so on so the fuse can burn in the canteen.
Between the bomb and the canteen there was a 15 centimeter gap. 
The fuse burns with a centimeter per second so there are 
15 seconds to the explosion
time that can’t be used to disarm the bomb.
How did you plant the bomb? Were there celebrations? 
Were there people around?
A huge rally of 200,000 people
on the occasion of the 75th anniversary 
of the so-called liberation of Bulgaria.
It was in the evening, around 7:30 pm,
when we put the bomb in a bag with all the attributes that I described and put it 
between the feet of Joseph Vissarionovich who, standing tall,
looked into the future with a scroll in his hand like a theorist and scientist.
The people saw a powerful explosion with smoke and flames coming out.
There were policemen around who ran to warn.
The whole statue was destroyed, I guess?
It was toppled on the ground. It was made out of brass,
which couldn’t be destroyed so easily.
At the same time they blew up part of a British military legation on Oborishte Str.  
They communicated through post cards the whole time. 
Georgi suspected treachery so he ran away to Blagoevgrad. 
From there, he intended to escape to Yugoslavia but he got caught.
In those days the police didn’t have handcuffs. 
They tied me up with a rope.
I was wearing a black coat. 
My arms where tied through the coat on my back and around my body
and they walked me trough the city. 
It was Palm Sunday
 and some women stopped and made the sign of the cross
upon themselves when they saw that view.
After that I was taken to the ministry of internal affairs,
which at that time was the headquarters of the secret police
where they started the so-called investigations with all the inquisitions
they usually employ.
What were the inquisitions? 
Well, mixed. First, I was made to stand for days
without water, food and sleep and all this mixed in with beatings.
Two days after they blew up the statue of Stalin, he died. 
This saved the nine anarchists from a death sentence.
What if Stalin had been alive? 
If Stalin had stayed alive, none of us was going to stay alive.
He did ten years in prison. 
Most of his comrades passed away there.
After he got out, Georgy  Konstantinov ran away to France. 
After the democratic changes, he came back to Bulgaria.
He says he is a programmer by trade
but he doesn’t stop developing anarchist theses.
A portrait of one of the theorists of anarchism - Mikhail Bakunin 
keeps a vigil over his home.
The lady of his hart is also an anarchist.
Together they stick up pictures of Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 
as a symbol of what they struggle against.
It’s a joke.
He doesn’t see many successors in today’s protests. 
He also doesn’t see the crosspoint between anarchism and terrorism.
But he is sure that if he could bring back his youth,
he wouldn’t take back anything he’s done.
If you had the opportunity, would you have blown up Stalin himself? 
I would do it even in my old age.
My uncle Georgi Konstantinov spent 10 years in prisons and camps,
6 of them in strict solitary confinement.
They tortured him and ruined his sleep.
He had enough time to think over and rediscover 
 the meaning of anarchist principles
 for the future of a globalized world.
We, anarchists, are a history but we are also a future
because the sum of factors that determines the stride of history
will put humankind, in the next 20 or 30 years, in front of the choice:
anarchy or death.
The only possible exit from the social and international crisis,
... an exit from it all,
is to create a society without state and without capital.
So, the most important factor for the systemic contradiction of capital 
is that it cannot solve any of humanity's big problems?
Technological development with robotization and automation
makes the existence of capitalism meaningless.
When everything is produced automatically and there are no workers or wages
the capitalists will be forced
to give their production away in different ways and forms,
which liquidates the point of capitalism, 
whose main purpose is profit.
But how can we speak of a free and just society?
The term "communism" was tainted by the Soviet experience.
The word "anarchism" evokes mainly negative associations in most people.
 All words have been tainted by demagogues,
 by people striving for power and wealth.
We see, even with the French Revolution and its motto:
"Freedom, equality, fraternity", we see what's left of it.
The Bolsheviks tainted all other words
but we haven't found more precise concepts
to express the social and economic organization of society
than anarchy and communism:
communism as economic organization,
anarchy as social organization.
 Because of the new technological changes we have discussed,
the classes of capitalist society will transform and disappear
as we know them today.
The automation of labor processes eliminates workers
and their functions in many spheres:
production, services, even intellectual work,
are taken up by robots and machines.
Can something unprecedented happen?  
Bakunin says that а civilization dies only when all objective and subjective
conditions for its funeral have become present.
So, if capitalism and statehood have not perished, 
we can explain “Why?” that is the case
with Bakunin’s reply: not all the conditions have become present.
Great scientists like Norbert  Wiener have stated that
the automation will close the cycle in human activity,
displacing it and replacing its functions largely by machines.
If this axiom is true, we can make several conclusions:
first, about the two classes of capitalist society - proletarians and capitalists,
and second, about the role and the need for a state in a fully automated society. 
If it is true that capitalists and workers are sentenced to extinction,
because in a system where private property and the state are still there  
but there are no hired workers, there will be no capital, either - 
some ruling class could be preserved, but it couldn’t be classified as capitalist.
It will be able to maintain its dominant position only by 
extra-economic coercion and violence. 
If this happens, next on the agenda will be the fate of the the proletariat,
who will have become a déclassé mass of “disposables”, 
from the point of view of the ruling class,
and this ruling class can opt for the "final solution", 
as the Führer once did
with respect to Jews, Gypsies 
and many other "categories" of people.
If society goes in this direction,
it is obvious that not only the “disposable”
but all of humankind will face the dilemma -
to struggle for its emancipation from domination or to be exterminated.
Why extermination? 
If only the “disposable” are exterminated, property and authority will still 
concentrate and centralize in smaller and smaller 
circles of people, as they typically do,
until whole sectors and strata of the ruling class will become “disposable”, too.
This, ultimately, means the physical and moral extinction of humankind. 
The solution of the problems in this situation is a classless and stateless society.
The likelihood of this outcome is hard to predict.
I am a historical optimist but my disposition is not a proof. 
My thesis is  that in perspective, we will have 
either anarchist-communism or the end of humankind, 
its extinction from the fauna like many other species have gone extinct before. 
The heart of the matter will boil down to the following: 
whether the “masters” will decide to retreat and give up their privileges - 
- and mind you, their status is no longer of exploiters
because there are no exploited when there is full automation - 
or will they (the ruling class) decide to preserve at all costs
their position of privilege and domination.  
However, for the system to function, there will be a need for
scientists, highly qualified specialists, inventors and so on, who
if the form of property is preserved, will also be hired workers, paid well. 
The question then will be if these people can be won over for the cause of emancipation, or
will they remain well-paid servants to their masters.
History knows examples of  individuals form the ruling class who joined the exploited.
It has happened among anarchists, too. 
Princes, noblemen, the sons and daughters of army generals
have joined the side of the revolution. 
Here, too, we have no evidence that it will happen again.
The population of the earth is about 8 billion, 
of whom about 1 billion live relatively well.
 Even among that top group, there are colossal differences in the standard of living, wealth and privilege.
Over 7 billion don’t live well and
have been able to feed themselves 
because they do some kind of paid work.
But if tomorrow they get severed from their existence as laborers, 
they will have to rely on the mercy of their masters alone to survive. 
The reaction of the masters is not known.
Also not known is if the mass of 7 billion will accept to live as beggars 
who wait for the mercy of their masters every month to give them sustenance. 
There is a precedent – the proletarian stratum in the Roman Empire
but they were 150, 000 people. 
150 thousand is not 7 billion. 
So there are two unknowns: 
the reaction and the decision that the masters will make and 
the rebellion and struggles of the billions that have become "disposable".
Is there a future for anarchism?
What I am about to say may not sound relevant to you.
We are both a history and a future.
To support this argument I’d need more time.
In short, the world is headed in a direction that will lead to
Hamlet's dilemma – to be or not to be?
The only way to be, I believe, 
 is the anarchist-communist revolution. 
