Blindness, foolishness, or what?

[Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky <nestor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bernie Wool has forwarded to the Marxism list an appeal to
international solidarity by the (if I understood well)
leaders of the Albanian miners in Trepca, claiming that
against all that they had dreamt of, the KFOR does not give
away the mine to the workers. Can you believe such a
mischievous behaviour from the imperialists?

Well, well, well. Sorry to be crude, but what did these
Albanian leaders of the Kossovo miners in Trepca expect?

Did they really suppose that the NATO was a better option
than Milosevic? From the communique it perspirates that
they blamed Milosevic, the arch-nationalist Yugoslavian
beast, for "organized violence",  NATO was some kind of
necessary evil to end with Milosevic.

No complaining, then. They got it. Now they have NATO in,
Milosevic out. These leaders expected liberation, and even
drafted plans -oh, can't believe that a union leader can be
THAT naive- for the "good times to come" where, under NATO
umbrella, their rights (partly obtained through decades of
terror against their non-Albanian fellow countrymen) would
be not only recognized but also supported. OK, now they
have got it, I repeat. NATO is showing not only not better,
but even worse than Milosevic _even for Albanians in
Kossovo_, a claim many on this list (me included) tended to
make. But let's go back to the leaders of the Trepca
complex Albanian miners.

Of course, they resort to international solidarity. But
"international solidarity" has already acted on their
behalf. It supported NATO intervention "from the Left".
What they should be asking now is for an "intergalactic
solidarity" to expel NATO from planet Earth. A hard bet.

A bourgeois leader may be more knowledgeable than a
thousand roaring "leftists".  Here is Peron:  "El que no
tenga cabeza para pensar, debera tener espalda para
aguantar" (He who lacks the head to think [the causes],
better get a gook back to stand [the consequences]). And
please do not suppose I am glad at the tragedy of the Tepca
miners, that is not a line I would accept as an answer, OK?

This reminds me so much of the conflicts in my own country
where the ultra-left got the lead, against the "bourgeois
and treacherous" Peronist leadership (who were certainly
bourgeois, but not as treacherous, not on most cases at
least), and finally the whole mess ended up with plant
closures and massive layoffs. People, sometimes, learn the
hard way. Same appeals to solidarity, same parading of
workers (or communiques at least) along University faculties
(a kind of parade of misery to exploit the good feelings
of the students), same fake appeals made by unions that
basically represent themselves not the workers that pay the
affiliation quota (I know well, I am unionized in ATE, a
union that has been taken over by a group of "progressive"
leftists and has consequently developed an innocuous
"leftish" style that puts words where they cannot put
action), same leftist verbiage. Same anti-bourgeois rant.

Same final defeat.

These stupids make me sick.

Nestor.