[PEN-L:6841] Gregor Gysi letter to Slobodan Milosevic

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Barkley wrote:
>Louis,
>    OK, so what's your solution?  Partition?
>Domination and discrimination by minority
>Serbs of majority Albanians?  Removal of
>majority Albanians by minority Serbs by force?

I come at this from a somewhat different angle than most people. I don't
think there can be peace, justice or social equality as long as the
criminals in Washington, London and Bonn are in power. I believe that we
are entering a period of profound social and economic crisis that will lead
to wars, civil war and revolutions. Russia is entering a dangerous new
period as Yeltsin and his imperialist backers will use violence to remain
in power. A restoration of socialism in the East would be impermissible. A
day does not go by when the rift between China and the west does not deepen.

The root cause of all these conflicts is the failure of the capitalist
system worldwide. Indeed, the "success" of the American stock market is
inversely proportional to the failure of the rest of the world. Indonesia,
Colombia, Venezuela and a host of other countries are already in the center
of massive class struggles.

The problems of the Balkans are intractable so long as the fundamental
structural problems in the world economy persist. What I have been urging
for the past year or so is a reorientation in our way of thinking. Although
I realize it is difficult for many of us to make such a shift, I reserve
for myself the right to be an irksome reminder of the imperative to
reorient our thinking.

Louis Proyect

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