Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 10:43:16 +0200 (MET DST)
To: marxism-general-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
From: rolf.martens-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se (Rolf Martens)
Subject: Re: M-G: Alice's "Albanian revolution" (MG-digest 325)


Luciano wrote, on 29.05, the below (mainly snipped here).

Luciano, you're obviously a "Kronstadt adherent", so you
and I have some basic disagreements.

But thank you for this posting anyway, and I say again,
your information on Albania is valuable.

You're no doubt quite right about the basic situation there,
which was judged to be as you write by Vladimir Bilenkin too,
in March, and I later wrote to concur in that assessment.

Please give some of us on this list credit for trying to
be realistic at least.

Rolf M.

(Luciano to Rob L.:)
>Dear comrade,
>
>in Albania there is no "dual power". In different parts of the country
>various armed groups battle it out. In the North some of them are supporters
>of Berisha, hardly "socialists" you would agree, would you not?
>
>In the South, where the revolt started and where one could still pin some
>hope for interesting developments in a revolutionary direction, most of the
>armed groups in existence don't have the faintest idea of what to do with
>whatever little power they are in a position to use.
>
>Some of the groups are in fact variously associated with criminal gangs both
>in Albania and in Italia (the mafia). Please note, only "some". Not the
>whole lot as the Italian bourgeois press is fond of saying.
>
>However, what certainly these groups are not is some kind of arm of
>"soviets". I don't know where you would find "soviets" in Albania. If you
>could point this out to me, I'd be very glad to check them out.
.......



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