Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Economic revolutions

[JKSCHW@xxxxxxx]

The US and the USSR are indeed both intolerant of dissident views, but the Yugoslav model--which I, as market socialist defend and Louis has savaged for years as antisocialist, essentially capitalist, a betrayal, etc, ad nauseum--as been dead in the Yugoslav rump republic for almosta  decade. Louis ought to have defended it against Milosovic eight or so years back. Now defending what he made of the model he ruined in its name, given his murders and brutalities, is an obscenity--very much like defending the Red Army in Afghanistan. I am not only amazed, as a partisan of the Titoist _economic_ model (though not its antidemocratic politics), I am insulted. Louis, with his anti-market socialsit attitudes, hasa  lot of nerve to come out as a defender of the Yugoslav model. That goes for Charles and the rest of you who have attacked _this same model_ as no better than capitalism when _I_ advocated it.  --jks

In a message dated Fri, 6 Oct 2000  4:58:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

<< Louis has joined the "Hail the Red Army in Afghanistan" brigade. It took 10
years for the CIA to bring out the population of Serbia against Slobo, but
they did it, though good socialists should have offered the Milosovic
regime critical support. I am amazed. --jks

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Actually I have made my objection to the Afghan attempt to shove
"socialism" down the throats of traditional village society many, many
times. If you go to my website, you will see a defense of Miskito rights
that makes many of the same points. In Yugoslavia, however, the people
democratically opted for a continuation of Titoist type economics and
politics. The United States could not tolerate this and tortured them into
submission. The US and the USSR both were intolerant of dissident views.

Louis Proyect
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