The democratic political life in Bulgaria has been marked by a long series of deep and painful convulsions…The Session of the 47th Congress of BSP held in October 2009 was marked by the deep crisis of the party’s leadership. Will the party’s current ideological and organizational crisis become still an­other case in the series of fatal political convulsions in democratic Bulgaria? Bulgarians are very much dissatisfied with the quality of the political life in the country. They have good reasons to be skeptical and critical since cases of corruption have been identified in all political parties… As seen from another point of view, Bulgarians are strikingly inactive in socially relevant voluntary activities in the same time. Thus, BSP and all other Bulgarian political parties and coalitions have to cope with threatening local effects of the global crisis and with a series of specific local problems. Some of them have long history while others have been mostly caused and reproduced by the badly conceived and implemented reforms after 1989. One should see the heated discussions just as an indicator for the pro­found problems facing BSP, the social democratic ideology and politics in Bul­garia and, first of all, the development of Bulgarian society. The problems con­cern the desirable and possible political agenda of social democracy under the new conditions of global insecurity, the difficulties in the European integration and the shaky grounds of economy, politics and culture in a country which belongs to the global semi-periphery and the European periphery. There should be political will for moving the party leadership together with the party’s rank and file away from factional and interpersonal struggles towards clarifying priorities for the development of Bulgarian society and Bul­garian state in the dynamic domestic, regional and global environment. This is the precondition for the meaningful specification of the social democratic visions of freedom, solidarity and justice into aims and means of social demo­cratic politics. The task is not new at all in this general formulation but perma­nently new in its specific local implementation. June 2010