Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 02:01:52 +0100
From: Mauro junior <mauro.jr-AT-iol.it>
Subject: Re: The working class and the war in Yugoslavia


At 11.23 17/11/95 -0500, you wrote:

>Second, the Bosnian experiment in multiethnic statism seems to me to have 
>been the most fruitful for class revolt.  Its success made a 
>nationalist-fascistic hijacking of workers' struggle less likely.  It was 
>- and is - hardly nationalist.  Third, as for what to do now - all I can 
>argue for is the usual massive international revolt against the elites 
>now in charge of the states of the West Balkans.
>	Thanks again for the intelligent post.  Hope we can talk again.

Mauro jr:
maybe you got wrong informations about Bosnian rulers. De facto, they are
not less reactionary and nationalists than the others. Every and any
newspaper and radio not aligned with the government has been shut down; the
"war-status" politics is dominating the civil life in Sarajevo and elsewhere. 
A question arise: why they are apparently not-nationalist and
pro-multiethnic? It's simple, for me: Itzbegovic, muslim, knows very well
that they are a minority, strong as you want, but minority and to be for a
mono-ethnic state would have worked very badly in the usual politics of such
rulers: to keep the power they had as communits (of the Federal League) in
the new forms they choosed. And perhaps he knows also that his "nation" is a
ideological crime made by Tito, and it would have hardly gained the support
of the "international concert".
The muslims are the Slaves of the South who embraced the religion of the
Turcs when they ruled Bosnia, Montenegro and Macedonia. Have the occupant
Turcs mantained in 4 centuries their ethnical presence in Bosnia? Don't
joke. The very few Turcs, with pure Turc ancestry are some hundreds families
in the most out-of-the way villages on the mountains; the other muslims are
South Slaves with one of the three religions poisoning that people. Nothing
more and nothing less. 
The orrible task of Tito was hard but just on the ideological, political
ground of the solid (at those moments) Federation. (BTW, what have some
subscribers to say about such progressive, market-socialist,
democratic-socialist move by Tito?)
The task of building an independent Nation-State of Muslims would have been
much more hard, and in any case, it would have been a three village state
(Sarajevo excluded).
Do you agree?
rev. greetings

Mauro Junior
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