Re: [Marxism] Milosevic's/socialists and the radical party poised to win the election...

["Nestor Gorojovsky" <nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It is only reasonable that news on Serbian elections generate 
provocations.  Our New Orleans correspondent believes that anti-
imperialist struggle is a Mardi Gras where a man can choose a partner 
by throwing diamond (even false diamond) necklaces to the streets 
while females march on parade.

Not at all. You need people who can and will, first of all, pull the 
trigger against an imperialist stooge or an imperialist soldier. And, 
believe me, it is not at Mardi Gras parades that you can find such 
people.  It is, usually, among patriots.

Now, patriots in an oppressed country come in all shapes and 
fashions. But, curiously enough, their leaders usually admire such 
people as Ernesto Guevara or Salvador Allende (this is true for the 
Serbian Socialist Party, at the very least). And they receive a 
silent backing from the Cuban Embassy.

The presence of Milosevic (and, yes, of Seselj) on the ballot tickets 
is the result of a long resistence by the Serbian people, who have 
consistently delegitimized four (four!) elections to Parliament and 
will now -remember this prediction, either to my blame or to my 
praise- flock to the polling booths in order to vote Milosevic to 
Parliament.

Maybe our New Orleans resident is right, and Milosevic is a "Serbian 
Nationalist" with no socialist credentials. I know that Louisiana is 
a haven for socialism and it is completely reasonable that a hard 
liner in that State should blast Milosevic for not being socialist, 
or socialist enough.  But (also) maybe our correspondent accepts that 
Mr. Trotsky was a socialist, wasn't he.

Then, he should keep a clean and open ear for his clear message:  "In 
a war between Fascist Brazil and Democratic England, every socialist 
must support Fascist Brazil against Democratic England, because this 
will be a war between a semicolonial country and an imperialist 
nation".  Belgrade and Brasilia are quite different and widely 
appart. However, it would be silly to suppose that Belgrade is 
_stornger_ than Brasilia.  And both belong to planet Earth, and on 
planet Earth the main contradiction is still the contradiction 
between oppressing and oppressed peoples.

The oppressed Serbians chose to support Milosevic. The oppressor 
imperialists chose to demonize him. Maybe in Louisiana this is not as 
clear as elsewhere. But well, such is life.

Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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"Sí, una sola debe ser la patria de los sudamericanos".
Simón Bolívar al gobierno secesionista y disgregador de 
Buenos Aires, 1822
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