[PEN-L:8686] RE: Serb dictatorship?

["Max B. Sawicky" <sawicky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>The kind in the throes of collapse?
>
>The kind that acts one way towards the national majority,
>and quite another w/respect to others?
>
>mbs
>
>[was that repetitious?]

Max, perhaps we have different definitions of dictatorship. . . .
>>

I take your point that Serbia and Nicaragua are and were more
open than Greece and a bunch of other us-backed regimes.  But
it is less open than the bourgeois democracies.  If it had a
kick-ass socialist economy, one might be more indulgent of its
democratic shortcomings.  But it doesn't, and never did, so I'm
not.  Of course, I wouldn't have been paying much attention but
for the Kosova events, which make the Greek dictatorship sound
inviting by contrast.

Good thing I'm not a muslim; by current criteria I could
accuse you of . . . you know.

In a related vein, if the Kosovars are a "retrograde current"
whose suppression is in some way explicable in a socialist
context, why doesn't the same critical judgement attach to
the indigenous people in Nicaragua?

mbs