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Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 17:10:40 -0800
From: Michael Pugliese <debsian-AT-pacbell.net>
Subject: AUT: Re: Re: General Strike in Serbia


   Heh, Mac you never give up do 'ya! ;-) The upper ranks of the SPS and
esp. the JUL were full of what Polish workers in 1968 and 1970 (see an
article in New Left Review at the time by a member of the Mandelite USFI, if
I recall correctly), called the Red Bourgeoisie. Massive corruption.
   One day you'll get the balance right between the more than justified
crotique of the IMF and WB and read up on the devastation brought to the
former Yugoslavia by Milosevicite war and repression, aided and abetted by
the far rightists, V. Seslj, who Milosevic called his favorite "opposition"
politician. Try any of these books, "The Break Up of Yugoslavia, " by Branka
Magas, Verso Books. "The Politics of Serbia in the 90's, " Robert Thomas,
Columbia Univ. Press. "The Road To War In Serbia, " edited by Nebojsa Popov,
CEU Press, 2000, translated from Serbo-Croatian edition of 1996. "Kosovo:
War and Revenge, " by Tim Judah, Yale Univ. Press. Milosevic and Markovic: A
Lust for Power
Slavoljub Djukic,Alex Dubinsky (Translator) / Hardcover / McGill-Queens
University Press / July 2001
Serpent in the Bosom: The Rise and Fall of the Slobodan Milosevic
Lenard J. Cohen / Hardcover / Westview Press / November 2000
Balkan Babel: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia from the Death of Tito to the
Fall of Milosevic (4th Edition)
Not Yet Released.
Sabrina P. Ramet / Paperback / Westview
Slobodan Milosevic and the Destruction of Yugoslavia
Not Yet Released.
L. Sell / Hardcover / Duke University Press / February 2002
Our Price: $27.96
http://csf.colorado.edu/pen-l/2001II/msg04114.html
Michael Pugliese
Click the URL's esp. for the great aufheben piece> etnicizing NATOsevic by
Harald Beyer-Arneson, I think.
Michael Pugliese

>funny how one can easily disconnect nationalism from economy.

jc helary

http://www.ainfos.ca/99/may/ainfos00083.html
(en) The BALKAN WAR and leftist apologetics for the Milosovic regime
>From Harald Beyer-Arnesen <haraldba-AT-online.no>
Date Tue, 11 May 1999 15:05:43 -0400
http://www.idea.org.uk/cfront/texts/other/kosovo-subjectivities-en.html
(Kosov-AT- - Contradictions and Subjectivities
(Ethnicizing Social Conflicts - The Example of Yugoslavia - With an Updated
Annex). Available online at
<http://www.nadir.org/nadir/archiv/Internationalismus/jugoslawien/materialie
n_06/>, updated annex at
<http://www.humanrights.de/antikrieg/texte/antii_d.htm>.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Ethnicizing+and+Natosevic+&btnG=Google+Search

http://csf.colorado.edu/pen-l/apr99/msg02975.html
http://www.webcom.com/wildcat/Yugoslavia.html
http://www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/guest/radical/ESBOSNIA.HTM
Bosnia and the poison of nationalism
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/Aut_html/Auf1edit.htm
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/aut_html/Aufheben/yugo.html
Class Decomposition In The New World Order:

Yugoslavia Unravelled

(1) Introduction

Whilst there have been numerous wars around the globe over the last
forty-eight years, Europe has seen only the mundane brutality of everyday
capitalist social relations. But once again the spectre of war haunts the
proletarians of the continent. The former republics of Yugoslavia have
lurched into a bitter cycle of war, and the images of the suffering provide
a terrifying reminder of the capacity of the working class to carve itself
up along national lines. Are we heading for a major European war? Will the
events of the past couple of years in Yugoslavia be repeated throughout
Eastern Europe? An analysis of the conflict is clearly imperative.

Such an analysis is made more difficult however both by our separation from
the events, leading to a lack of information from 'below', and by the
endless stream of depressing details on the conflict in the media making any
attempt to keep abreast of events into a desensitising test of endurance. So
this article will be limited to an attempt to simplify the conflict by
grasping the material roots of the nationalist tensions.

The first problem lies with deciding where to start. A possible starting
point would be the formation of the first (monarchist) Yugoslavia after WW1,
as the internal migration of Serbs under the Serb-dominated regime (to be
followed by a similar migratory flow after WW2) helped produce the ethnic
mish-mash with which we are now familiar. Another possibility is WW2 and the
genocide perpetrated by the Ustashe which helps explain the fear of
persecution so characteristic of current Serbian nationalist ideology.

Neither of these starting points seem to provide the best means of
unravelling the conflict however, as the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia
did hold together for well over forty years despite its ethnic diversity and
the experiences of WW2. Instead, the focus of the analysis has to be the
1974 Constitution, which appears to be a pivotal moment in the shaping of
Socialist Yugoslavia; so, to begin with, we have to examine the factors
which gave rise to it.

(2) Class Recomposition.
<snip>


----- Original Message -----
From: "Macdonald Stainsby" <mstainsby-AT-tao.ca>
To: <aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 3:56 PM
Subject: AUT: Re: General Strike in Serbia


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Jovanovic" <peterzoran-AT-hotmail.com>
> To: <aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 10:01 PM
> Subject: AUT: General Strike in Serbia
>
>
> > Wednesday, 17 October, 2001, 15:01 GMT 16:01 UK
> >
> > Serbs protest against labour law
> >
> > Several thousand people across Serbia have taken
> > part in demonstrations against a draft labour law that
> > would freeze pay in state-owned companies.
> > In the capital, Belgrade, up to 5,000 people attended a
> > rally at the main government building.
> *snip*
>
> you mean they are protesting the austerity brought about by the overthrow
of the
> Socialist Party of Serbia? Hmmm...
>
> Macdonald
>
>
>
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