[PEN-L:6229] Why Nato needs to destroy Serbia

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

>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

Or, alternatively to this "Wag the Dog" sort of interpretation, there is
that moldy fig Marxist analysis that the war is about expansionism, making
Eastern Europe, Russia and China safe for capitalist investment. One of the
things that should be factored into a global analysis is the Chinese
government's retreat from privatizing the state firms, which surprised me
more than anybody. I suspect that the furor over "spying" has a lot to do
with this. If China had behaved more pliantly in recent WTO discussions, I
suspect that this would be a non-issue. This, by the way, is one of the
reasons I am somewhat leery of Republican opposition to the Balkans war,
since they are "interventionist" when it comes to China. The other thing to
keep in mind is that Yeltsin won't live forever. There has to be some
concern about Russia's political identification with the Serbs. I suspect
that what is driving this is residual "Stalinist" animosity toward western
imperialism. The goal of Nato and western imperialism is to remove every
last vestige of crypto-Stalinist or nationalist opposition to its global
designs. That is why so much is at stake in this Kosovo adventure.

Louis Proyect

(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)