Re: [Marxism] Quick note on: Milosevic '89 speech, etc.

["Michael Karadjis" <mkaradjis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "David Walters" wrote

>Written in 1922 while Trotsky was still Commissar of Military Affairs,
it presents one of the best Marxist works on self-determination "under
socialism".

What Trotsky may have written about this issue of self-determination 'under
socialism' would seem to me to have little to do with the question of
slef-determination in late 1980's Yugoslavia


>Interesting little factoid: I believe the speech was first translated
>into English by the US Dept. of Commerce. I don't know what to read
>into this except that it's curious.

How to read this into the debate seems straightforward enough to me -
Milosevic was precisley the kind of person that the US was looking for in
those 'secret sensitive' documents referred to in the gervasi piece and
quoted by Louis




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