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

["Michael Karadjis" <mkaradjis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Louis Proyect wrote:

> John, Ernest Mandel said that the DSP was adapting to Croatian
> nationalism. That is the most striking feature of Karadjis's last post
> here. It was cut from the same cloth as the GLW article I cited. >

When I first started sending stuff to the list, I was pleasantly surprised
that Louis actually responded in civilised fashion, however strong his
disagreements with me. I was surprised because of the amount of froth and
bluster I'd seen on the list on this particular issue. Now he seems to have
decided the best way to refute my arguments is to slander me as an apologist
for Croatian chauvinism. I'm sure it will not matter how many times I repeat
the same things, that i cobndemn Croatian chauvinism, that I consioder
Tudjman and the HDZ a right-wing nationalist party representing the
degenerated bureaucracy reforming itslef into capitlaism, that I condemn
massacres of serbs as surely as massacres of anyone else, it will all be to
no avail, he will still attempt this silly frame-up. Sp judge by what I say,
not what someone other than myself may have thought 12 years ago or what
Mandel may have said 20 years ago long before the Yugoslav events we are
talking about.

> The main issue is the class character of Yugoslavia as far as I am
> concerned. So far I have yet to see a substantive defense of the
> proposition that Yugoslavia was capitalist.

It's coming. This is not my full time job, and to write a subsantive, well
backed up piece, which I intend to (along with another substantive piece
refuting the idea that the west, least of all the US, "broke up"
Yugoslavia), may take time and you will have to wait.
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