Re: Auschwitz in Bulgaria

[Dennis R Redmond <dredmond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky wrote:

> can each system sustain. In Russia, and now elsewhere in Eastern
> Europe, it is demography that decries you. I would like to know how
> would you call a policy that takes down in 20 years the life
> expectancy of males if not as a "devastation"

Russia isn't part of Eastern Europe, it has its own historical, social
geography, traditions, and a raw materials economy, as opposed to E-Eur's
semi-processed goods economy (a division of labor handed down by COMECON).
Eastern Europe has experienced a generalized stagnation, not outright
social collapse. As good Marxists, we should ask why this is, and analyze
those relations of production and class struggles in detail; how *is* the
Polish workingclass resisting the IMF? What are the possibilities of
E-Eur/CIS labor activism? What kind of socialism(s) can be built when the
EU is your friendly neighborhood superpower? I don't know, but we've got
to start asking these kinds of questions.

-- Dennis