Re: [Marxism] re: Milosevic's '89 speech

["Michael Karadjis" <mkaradjis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'll look at the whole article when I've got time, but of course Louis was a
bit sneaky here, as John Cox said he agreed with most of my analysis but you
show him an article from 1991 not written by me. Green left is nt a party
paper, and in any case whoever wrote that article 12 years ago could have
been mistake. This bit just tells me that there were people to the right of
Tudjman, which is correct

----- Original Message -----
From: "Louis Proyect" <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition"
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Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: [Marxism] re: Milosevic's '89 speech


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




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