[Marxism] re: Milosevic '89 speech, etc.

[John M Cox <coxj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

original post from Louis:
John M Cox wrote:
> Just a short note on Milosevic's speech on the 600th anniversary of the
> Kosovo battle: I agree with Michael's comments on this speech, as with
> almost all of his analysis on Yugoslavia

Really? Do you agree with this:

But as one Zagreb politician told the press: Tudjman may have made
mistakes with regard to his republic's Serb minority, while Milosevic
wants to destroy Croatia; there is no comparison between the two.

Zagreb academic Rada Ivekovic told Green Left Weekly, Up to and during
the election campaign, Tudjman was more pronounced in his right-wing
[nationalist] claims than now because, after he came to power, he had to
play the moderate within his party ... There are people in the HDZ more
to the right than he is, including the defence minister [Sime Djodan],
and there are other rightist parties.

Tudjman's moderation in dealing with Serbia's aggression produced open
tension within the ruling party and the postponement of a session of the
Sabor early this month as HDZ hardliners increased pressure for
returning sacked cabinet ministers to their posts, for a general
mobilisation and for the declaration of a state of war in Croatia.

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1991/23/23p17.htm

my reply: really, Lou, that's unworthy of you; I wrote that I agree with
'almost all' of what Michael Karadjis had posted to this listserv, and you
reply with an excerpt from an article written by SOMEONE ELSE in the Green
Left Review. (and for the record, i don't agree with this article's
analysis of Tudjman.)

This has been a feature of the periodic debates on
yugoslavia on the listserv, and of the replies to Michael's contributions:
taking one or two things, sometimes out of context, rather than dealing
with many of the more substantive arguments. But it's only through this
sort of slipperiness that the "Parenti School of Yugoslav Studies" can be
defended.




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