Re: [Marxism] Greek revolutionaries criticize pseudo-independence, call for real independence for Kosova Albanians

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Fred Feldman quoted Greek Trotskyists:
>The full annexation of Kosovo to Serbia took place in 1989 after the violent
>abolition of the Kosovar autonomy and the military coup d'état imposed by
>Milosevic. Kosovo was condemned to "apartheid", where the use of Albanian
>language was forbidden, schools and universities were shut down, all
>Albanian employees in public sector were fired and a lot of Albanians were
>sent to jail as political prisoners (some of them are still there).

Note how these Marxists omit any reference to the causes of a 
crack-down in Kosovo. This kind of "cherry-picking" of history is an 
affront to everything that Marx stood for:

Portions of southern Yugoslavia have reached such a state of ethnic 
friction that Yugoslavs have begun to talk of the horrifying 
possibility of ''civil war'' in a land that lost one-tenth of its 
population, or 1.7 million people, in World War II.

The current hostilities pit separatist-minded ethnic Albanians 
against the various Slavic populations of Yugoslavia and occur at all 
levels of society, from the highest officials to the humblest peasants.

A young Army conscript of ethnic Albanian origin shot up his 
barracks, killing four sleeping Slavic bunkmates and wounding six others.

The army says it has uncovered hundreds of subversive ethnic Albanian 
cells in its ranks. Some arsenals have been raided.

Ethnic Albanians in the Government have manipulated public funds and 
regulations to take over land belonging to Serbs. And politicians 
have exchanged vicious insults.

Slavic Orthodox churches have been attacked, and flags have been torn 
down. Wells have been poisoned and crops burned. Slavic boys have 
been knifed, and some young ethnic Albanians have been told by their 
elders to rape Serbian girls.

(NY Times, Nov. 1, 1987)


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