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

[Patrick Scott <redpatrick1960-marxism@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If we followed argued a similar argument to the one
that Louis is proposing over Kosovar in relation to
Palestine today we would end up supporting the Israeli
state against the Palestinians. After all hasn't Hamas
sent out countless suicide bombers to blow up Iraeli
civilians and doesn't it favourably refer to the
Protocols of the Elders of Zion in its charter?

Sure, the Kosovar Albanians like the Palestinians have
at times been guilty of atrocities. But lets look at
the big picture to see who are the national oppressors
and who are the nationally oppressed.

--- Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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