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 --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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