[PEN-L:6123] Re: partition?

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Devine wrote:

>In the current issue of LEFT BUSINESS OBSERVER, Doug Henwood interviews
>Robert Hayden, the director for Russian and East European Studies at the U
>of Pittsburgh. Hayden says as one point:
>
>"The political solution, I've been arguing, has been the partition of
>Kosovo, in which the Serbs would keep the northern 20%, which has most of
>their important religious and symbolic sites, and the [ethnic] Albanians
>would get the rest as a protectorate, and probably joining the rest of
>Albania after about five years. There would have to be some provision for
>redrawing the borders of Macedonia."
>
>In addition to pointing to the interesting phenomenon of this this
>anti-imperialist author advocating something very similar to what Max
>favors

Not sure whom you're referring to here, but if it's me, I didn't endorse my
interviewee's position. I'm very uncomfortable with promoting ethnically
defined states, which is why I asked him the earlier questions about Tito
(implicitly - how did they live in peace for 40 years?) and "tribalism."

Doug