[PEN-L:6228] Re: Why Nato needs to destroy Serbia

[Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol@xxxxxxx>]

At 10:37 AM 4/30/99 -0400, Lou Proyect wrote:
>You have to read between the lines and you also have to read the entire
>article. It makes these basic points, which are interconnected:



Lou, thanks for the clarification.  I tend to agree with the point claiming
the inability of the existing parties to reverse the economic stangnation
and the popular discontent it may produce (I think Juergen Habermas made a
similar point some 20 or so years ago in is essay _Legitimation Crisis_).

In fact, in one of my posting to lbo-talk  I hypothesized that the Euro
social democrats willingness to go to a war on "human rights" issue was an
effort to divert the public attention from their inability to deliver on
their electoral promises of changing the neo-liberal policies.  Afraid that
the the history or Mitterand socialists may repeat itself, the decided to
"change the subject" and score what they mistakenly thought to be some easy
points on "defending human rights."

Wojtek>