starčević was a racist and an anti-semite. his understanding of the basic human rights and the way he linked them to the civil liberties were 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"".