File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1998/marxism-thaxis.9803, message 261


Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 14:47:22 -0500
From: Yoshie Furuhashi <Furuhashi.1-AT-osu.edu>
Subject: Re: M-TH: I smell sulphur!! Kosova, Chile, Indonesia...


Hugh wrote:
>And this is pre-revolutionary stuff! No revolutionary crisis in sight, just
>the usual world pre-revolutionary timebomb situation but with the cracks
>opening up so we can see some of the magma boiling underneath the surface.
>
>We saw the biggest demos for decades in Kosova, media savvy demonstrators
>with placards in English, a commentator on CNN (James Hooper of the Balkan
>Institute) saying Milosevic' is gearing up for a Bosnian genocide drive and
>ethnic cleansing of the 98% Albanian population and that he's now been
>given a green light by the imperialists in London.
>
>So how about it everybody? No revolutionary mileage in the national
>question in Kosova? No popular demands that need to be met for democratic
>representation and national rights? No great majority of the population
>ready to rise up and solve these questions? No scope for an application of
>the Permanent Revolution and transitional demands explaining that only by
>making a combined political revolution (getting rid of the Milosevic'
>bureaucracy and instituting workers' democracy in rump Yugoslavia including
>Kosova), international & social revolution (overthrowing the
>restorationists in all of the republics of ex-Yugoslavia) and national
>revolution (for the autonomy of Kosova) will it be possible to end the
>repression and the grinding and worsening poverty?

Are those Albanians with their placards in English making demands for
workers' democracy now? (I am asking a question about their consciousness
as revealed in *their expressed demands*, not about their objective need
for socialism.)

It is my understanding that "post-socialist" secessions, wars, conflicts,
nationalisms, etc. in the Balkans have been used mainly to increase the
American/NATO/UN military presence in the area.

Yoshie




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