1688: Mykhailo Pavlyk on Secular Socialism, Anticlericalism, Education, and Ukrainian Radicalism
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2026/05/09
“All such conduct of our Galician gentry toward the working ‘beasts’ pained me, deeply pained me; for who can endure it when his father and mother are dragged through the mud!”
“I began to think about whether it ought to be so.”
“School did not tell me a single word about it; only my own thought tormented itself, now bending down, now rising upward…”
“All my efforts ended in irreconcilable hostility toward me from everyone with whom I spoke openly and without mercy.”
“Everything will pass into the hands of the priests, whose trade will not allow them to speak about the peasant, and from all priestly enlightenment there will come only the pure demoralization of the peasants.”
“Here I saw that education was absolutely necessary for all peasants, that all of them had to press into school.”
“All your thoughts have so taken hold of my heart that I will no longer give up what I have thought over and suffered for.”
“The youth must now do, as quickly as possible, what the intelligentsia has not done until now.”
“Churchdom hangs over our people like a terrible fate.”
“If they give support even for Narod, I will take it, but I will do my own work for the people.”
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