[Marxism] Michael Parenti on demonizing Milosevic,

[David Walters <dwalters@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Karadjis has an interesting perspective on the Balkan crisis.
Almost refreshing, albeit seemingly one sided. Not to stir the pot to
much, but Michael throws around the world "Chetnik" an awful lot, with
regards to the military forces of the Serb Radicals in Bosnia.
Generally, on this list for all this time, and elsewhere, I very rarely
see anyone with evidence to challenge this. Seeing enough
Serbo-American reproductions/translations of the allies of these
Chetniks, I formulated my own view that Karadjis view is generally
correct, especially as these forces often referred to themselves as
Chetnick, wore Chetniki style hats, as opposed to Serb Partisan ones,
etc etc. And of course Bosnian Serbs were fighting for anything BUT the
all-ethnic Yugloslavia they championed, sort of, during and after WWII,
at best they were fighting for a sort of Serbo-Slavia. At least this is
what appeared to me as I watched Bonsian events that unfolded and went
to Serbo-American union meetings here in California (I actually live in
a little Serbian community of a few hundred families here in
California).

I suspect this above interpretation will be torn apart, but this aspect
of the war in the Balkans hasn't been particularly dissected yet as the
Kosovo(a) war has been. I look forward to seeing me mind changed on
this.

What is peculiar to Michael's assessment of the events during the
initial formal break up of Yugoslavia and his denunciation of all
things Serb in Bosnia as *Chetnik* is his most glaring admission of the
term *USTASHI* to describe the Croatian ethnic counterparts of their
fellow Yugolsavs in Bosnia who functioned in seemingly the EXACT same
way as the Chetniks did. Why is this Michael? Here in the US and
especially in Western Europe, dozens of neo-Nazi groups both raised
money, men and *supplies* for such Ustashi in Bosnia...yet you fail to
mentioned this, concentrating, it seems to me, only on well documented
abuse of Croatians at the hands of Serbs...yet Moslem (and Serbian)
victims of Croatian / Ustashi power are not mentioned. Care to balance
out your view?

David Walters


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