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From: "George Pennefather" <poseidon-AT-tinet.ie> Subject: AUT: Serbia and imperialism Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 15:29:55 +0100 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. It is important that communists seek to understand the character of developments in the Balkans with reference to Sebia and its Kosovan province of Kosova. Western imperialism led by the US has engaged in the bombing of Serbia as a means of ensuring that in future Belgrade conducts itself in a way that generally represents the interests of American imperialism in particular and imperialism in general. In that way its policy of ensuring that Central and Eastern Europe conducts itself in a way that is consistent with the class interests of imperialism. US imperialism can consequently, with greater ease and freedom, enhance the conditions necessary for profit maximisation. The NATO invasion of Serbia serves also as a warning to any other potentially truculent countries both in Eastern Europe and elsewhere to behave themselves. The invasion of Iraq by western imperialism was launched for essentially similar reasons. In this way this foreign policy of Washington is intended to impose imperialist stability and conditions conducive towards the accumulation of capital. Tied in with the above analysis Western imperialism was sought to prevent the Kosovan conflict developing into a much wider and deeper conflict leading to the destabilisation of the entire region including the destabilisation of Turkey, a member of NATO. Such a development would be of enormous strategic significance for imperialism. Furthermore had the Belgrade regime been left free to thoroughly subjugate the Kosovan ethnic Albanians further instability would have been introduced into the region. This would not have been conducive to promoting the conditions for imperialist capital accumulation. The cause of the NATO bombing is as straight forward as this. NATO's bombing of Serbia had nothing to do with humanitarian or democratic considerations. The latter are of merely ideological significance and are designed to serve to distract attention from the real source of the savage bombing --the accumulation of capital. Warm regards George Pennefather Be free to check out our Communist Think-Tank Website: http://homepage.tinet.ie/~beprepared Be free to check out our Communist Think-Tank Website: http://homepage.tinet.ie/~beprepared

It is important that communists seek to understand the character of developments in the Balkans with reference to Sebia and its Kosovan province of Kosova.

Western imperialism led by the US has engaged in the bombing of Serbia as a means of ensuring that in future Belgrade conducts itself in a way that generally represents the interests of American imperialism in particular and imperialism in general. In that way its policy of ensuring that Central and Eastern Europe conducts itself in a way that is consistent with the class interests of imperialism. US imperialism can consequently, with greater ease and freedom, enhance the conditions necessary for profit maximisation.

The NATO invasion of Serbia serves also as a warning to any other potentially truculent countries both in Eastern Europe and elsewhere to behave themselves. The invasion of Iraq by western imperialism was launched for essentially similar reasons.

In this way this foreign policy of Washington is intended to impose imperialist stability and conditions conducive towards the accumulation of capital.

Tied in with the above analysis Western imperialism was sought to prevent the Kosovan conflict developing into a much wider and deeper conflict leading to the destabilisation of the entire region including the destabilisation of Turkey, a member of NATO. Such a development would be of enormous strategic significance for imperialism.

Furthermore had the Belgrade regime been left free to thoroughly subjugate the Kosovan ethnic Albanians further instability would have been introduced into the region. This would not have been conducive to promoting the conditions for imperialist capital accumulation.

The cause of the NATO bombing is as straight forward as this. NATO's bombing of Serbia had nothing to do with humanitarian or democratic considerations. The latter are of merely ideological significance and are designed to serve to distract attention from the real source of the savage bombing --the accumulation of capital.

Warm regards

George Pennefather

Be free to check out our Communist Think-Tank Website:
http://homepage.tinet.ie/~beprepared

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