RE: [Marxism] Six questions for Zivko from truly yours

["Zivko Vukolaj" <zivko_vukolaj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

As I suspected, your concern is over things that bear no relevance to the
original discussion. Nonetheless, here are some simple answers.

> Tell me, Zivko, would you say that the Yugoslav population,
> particularly the toiling classes, was (a) for break up of the country
> during the late 80s - early 90s,

That's debatable. Great majority of the Croatian and Slovenian population,
for example, voted for secession. The background to this was, of course,
hyperinflation.

> (b) for NATO intervention and
> invasion in the late 1990s,

No.

and (c) for the illegal abduction and
> judgement in a kangaroo court of their President Slobodan Milosevic
> as well as of many officials whose single sin had been to resist the
> invasion?

No. I think it quite obvious that this was an alienated maneuver by the DOS
government. Even the majority of the 'popular' anti-Milosevic opposition was
against the abduction.

> [Of course, I am begging you to be schematic.  I would feel quite
> disappointed if your answer were "ah, things were very complex".
> This is taken for granted.  What I want to know is what do you think
> the general balance was.]

Things were in deed very complex, and, in fact, if one doesn't understand
this very complexity of things, one fails to understand the Balkans all
together.

> And (d) would you (you, Zivko, you yourself) deem that population
> "guilty"  for the fate that fell upon Yugoslavia because they kept
> Milosevic in power

No.

, or (e) fools who were duped into voting a
> Quisling,

More or less, yes, but I only answer with a sort of straight "yes" to keep
you happy. "Things were very complex."

or (f) define the electoral system that kept Milosevic in
> power as essetially treacherous, corrupt and undemocratic?

No.

Yours,
Zivko V.

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