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Subject: [C-I] Threshold of Lies Part 1


Comrade "khlopusha"

Another article for you to consider.  Although a very scathing criticism, we 
remain in contact.

I am not sure who Stalin was quoting but he said, "Pursue the liar to the 
threshold of the lie."  I am utterly amazed at the demagoguery of Partija 
rada in about everything they say.  In your post on 8/9/01 Re:  Partija Rada, 
you state that, "At the very beginning of their existence, KLA was a 
progressive force which fought against Aparthied system imposed to the 
Albanians on Kosovo by Milosevic and his nationalistic policy."

Your propaganda is exactly that of NATO and the US imperialists!

First of all, the KLA were never a progressive force but were and remain 
nothing but mafia thugs, fascists and drug runners supported by the CIA and 
drug money.  They have no interest in the Albanian proletariat and its 
struggles, only their own desire to emerge as the new puppets of imperialism 
as profiteers and fascist elitists serving the interests of US imperialism.
    
Some of the evidence of bourgeois nationalism and its ties to US capital and 
the KLA is Florin Krasniqi who is a major New York industrialist and one of 
the KLA's largest financial supporters. He supplied arms to the KLA by 
circumventing US law by sending sniper rifles and armor-piercing Barratt 
rifles to KLA fronts established as "hunting clubs" in Albania!!!
    
Shaban Shala, a KLA commander responsible for "destabilizing" Albanian 
villages in Serbia admitted to meeting British and Swiss, as well as US 
agents in northern Albania in 1996.
    
Agim Ceku established CIA contacts through MPRI while in the Croatian Army.  
He is a commander in the KLA and yet you say you do not support the Tudjman 
regime which Ceku was a military commander in before being recruited by the 
CIA and THEN becoming a KLA commander.  He was in fact one of Tudjman's 
fascists and now one of the CIA's fascists in what you and other demagog's 
would have us believe is a legitimate "self-determination" movement.
    
The KLA also admitted that, "We do not have an ideology, we do not have time 
for such things."  This is their own condemnation as being fascist frauds as 
it goes completely against the very essence of Marxist-Leninist proletarian 
revolutionary theory which is precisely the core of Marxism-Leninism.

As Marxist-Leninists we must oppose all forms of national chauvinism which 
includes the nationalism of Milosevic but it's a flagrant falsification of 
political reality to attribute the Balkan crisis to Milosevic and the 
Serbs...not to mention highly racist!  The present crisis really began in 
1941 which is evidenced by the Second Prizren League address to Hitler by the 
Main Committee which was nothing more than Albanian fascists and is the 
foundation of which the KLA is built on, therefore, it never was a 
"progressive force" which demagogues and idealists wish it were because of 
their false understanding of reality and the national question.  In fact, the 
KLA and their fascist predecessors are the ones responsible for the 
"Aparthied" system you so jingoistically attribute to the Serbs.  It was 
Ferat-beg Draga, one of the most influential Albanian leaders in 1943 that 
stated, "there will be no more Serbs under the sun of Kosovo."  Here is the 
real fascist beginnings of genocide and ethnic cleansing in Kosovo - the 
ethnic cleansing of Serbs by ethnic Albanians and carried on by the KLA.  The 
KLA with the help of MPRI and the CIA are doing nothing more than carrying on 
a program of genocide and ethnic cleansing of anyone who opposes them to 
create a "Greater Albania" in which the KLA hope to be the inheritors of 
rewards heaped on them based on their faithful collusion with the US 
imperialists.  This in no way comes close to meeting Stalin and Lenin's 
criteria for being a legitimate movement of self-determination in which 
Marxist-Leninists should support!!!
    
The KLA financed by the US capitalists, drug money, mafia and the CIA is 
responsible for ethnic cleansing and terrorism against Albanians who do not 
support the KLA and their bourgeois nationalism.  The KLA is also responsible 
for the terrorism against Serbs and other nationalities all because of their 
nationalism disguised as "self-determination" which is loudly bleated about 
by demagog's and opportunists who so desperately want to hope in the KLA and 
refuse to acknowledge the political reality of these fascists and the 
criteria set forth by Lenin and Stalin as to what in fact characterizes a 
revolutionary movement and what characterizes a reactionary movement.
    
One of the very few things you are correct about is that in the 1980's 
Milosevic was a favored friend of the US capitalists and he initiated market 
policies and dismantled state industry but in the 1990's he changed his 
policies which brought him into conflict with US capital interests.  He was 
now placed side by side with Sadam Hussein on US imperialism's list of the 
"Most Wanted."  The judgement of who is a favored friend of US imperialism 
can and does change abruptly.  Prime Minister Palmerston said it most 
eloquently, "the British Empire, it has neither permanent friends, nor 
permanent enemies, only permanent interests."!!
    
The right of self-determination has two sides which must be decided by the 
proletariat, not a self-appointed terrorist mob.  It can remain as it is or 
secede.  The decision is completely up to the proletariat and must not be a 
forced decision by external nations.  The Albanian secessionists have their 
roots in fascist nationalism which is traced from WW II and the Skanderbeg 
connections.  The issue of recent events has been a forced issue of secession 
by German and US imperialism.
    
As Hitler said in Mein Kampf, "The Big Lie is a major untruth uttered 
frequently by leaders as a means of duping and controlling the constituency." 
 This is so true and is very much a propaganda tactic by the bourgeoisie and 
their demagogic opportunists.
    
The US media has only featured relatively small and selective "terrorist" 
acts of the Serbs - all of which now have been shown to be propaganda 
fabrications such as your continued bleating about "mass graves."  The media 
has dramatized and personalized them with details and gave slight and 
anti-septic attention to the horrendous criminal actions of the KLA and US 
imperialism as defensive and retaliatory.
    
The political selectivity, dramatization and complete distortion of truth has 
made for very effective propaganda that has paralyzed the masses as well as 
many on the "left."  In fact, most on the left, especially self-proclaimed 
Marxist-Leninists have lapsed into silence, some have condemned both sides, 
calling feably for restraint and compromise, believing that these are "times 
when imperialism has the same interests as the people"!!!!  These politically 
bankrupt apologists in return arrogantly label those who are willing to call 
the aggression of US imperialism and the KLA by its right name as 
"extremeists", "revisionists", and "opportunists", how backwards they are!!
    
It is the very paralysis and marginalization of a principled Marxist-Leninist 
position that has served to weaken the opposition to US imperialism and 
strengthens it by giving to imperialism a label of "nobility" based on the 
bankrupt belief that imperialism is concerned about "human rights." The 
willingness of Marxist-Leninists to accept the role of US imperialism and 
NATO as proper authorities "with the same interests of the people" to decide, 
judge and destroy a sovereign nation is not only astonsihing but a 
vacillating political hypocracy.  These same self-proclaimed 
Marxist-Leninists will condemn the murderous US imperialism responsible for 
killing more Iraqi children each month than the aggregate casualties in 
Kosovo; they condemn the US support of the Turkish war against the Kurds, 
etc., but the political vision of these opportunists is so limited, their 
response to atrocities so elemental, that they collapse intellectually and 
morally.
    
By having accepted the bourgeoisie's propaganda lies of demonizing Milosevic 
and the Serbs, such politically bankrupt opportunists become the spokesmen of 
imperialism favoring NATO bombing and justifying it as "having the same 
interests of the people."!!  This is totally bankrupt Marxist-Leninist 
analysis that constitutes revisionism.  It is an opportunistic bankruptcy of 
Marxist-Leninist analysis to conjure up a racist and jingoistic nationalism 
to attribute the crisis to Milosevic and the Serbs.  It is a further 
opportunistic bankruptcy of Marxist-Leninist analysis to not condemn the 
policies of imperialism that have contributed and fomented the violence.  It 
is the repressive nature of US imperialism that has exacerbated the cultural, 
economic and political crisis of Yugoslavia and the whole of the Balkans.  
The role of US imperialism is not only immoral and illegal but it is a 
priority of US capitalism as a destructive policy rooted in self-serving 
geo-political interests and strategies that have absolutely nothing to do 
with "humanitarian" concerns or sharing "the same interests of the people" 
that opportunists like Miller, Kumar and Partija rada proclaim.

Senator Joe Liberman stated that "The United States of America and the Kosovo 
Liberation Army stand for the same human values and principles....Fighting 
for the KLA is fighting for human rights and American values."  (My 
emphasis).  Since when did the Almighty Anti-Communist America begin to 
embrace a Marxist-Leninist organization...or any other brand of communist 
organization and equate it with "American values????  A statement such as 
this should clue the most naive of people that the KLA is anything but 
communist!!!  But I guess not for the above mentioned opportunists!   This is 
the exact same rhetorical propaganda of Reagan and his baby killer Contras as 
being "freedom fighters."!!!!  It is also an admonition of the collusion with 
and dominance by US capitalists.  The only reason the US supports the KLA and 
the "self-determination" of these fascist Albanians is geo-political 
interests.  The US supports the reactionary "self-determination" movement in 
order to assist fascist Albanian nationalists to form a "Greater Albania" 
which will be economically, politically and militarily dominated by US 
capitalism.
    
It was Yugoslavia, led by Serbia under Milosevic who fought defensively 
against reactionary seccessionists supported by US imperialism to cut up, 
divide and dismantle Yugoslavia.  The goal of the reactionary KLA was and is 
to rip parts of Yugoslavia and now Macedonia and form a state under US 
domination.  Serbs have been the main target of US imperialism and its 
opportunistic apologists because they have resisted the fascists of WW II and 
the present day fascists while the KLA have embraced fascism.  It is because 
of the Albanian revisionist forces that socialism was destroyed in Albania 
and it only became a matter of which bourgeois elitists US capitalists would 
suport to further the aims of US capitalism.
    
Milosevic, a former puppet of US capitalism reversed his policies and severed 
his ties with US capitalism making him a renegade that bruised the ego of US 
capitalists.  It has been due to his nationalist posturing to keep Yugoslavia 
free from US domination that he impeded the aims of US imperialism to 
destabilize and dominate the whole of the Balkans, USSR and China.  This is 
the crime Milosevic is guilty of and therefore to obscure the complete 
criminality of the US, Milosevic and the Serbs were made out to be the enemy. 
 US capitalism could not progress with Milosevic standing in the way. The 
process of demonizing Milosevic and the Serbs became the propaganda tactic of 
US imperialism to justify US sponsored ethnic cleansing of the Serbs and a 
host of other war crimes.
    
The propaganda lies attribute the crisis to Milosevic and the Serbs yet it is 
the US capitalists and their KLA proxies who have created the crisis that 
Milosevic inherited.
    
Under Tito, Yugoslavia broke away from the USSR and established an alliance 
with the West and NATO but by the end of 1990, under Milosevic, Yugoslavia 
began to suspend the "reforms" to which it initially agreed.  This resistance 
is what brought down the wrath of US imperialism which sought to disantle 
Yugoslavia by promoting separatism and igniting ethnic tensions...classic CIA 
destabilization.  The crisis is not unique to Milosevic but that of the past 
being fueled by the "Reagan Doctrine" which was dubbed by Ambassador Jeane 
Kirkpatrick.
When Yugoslsavia left the Warsaw Pact in 1948, US capitalists saw it as a 
buffer against possible Soviet expansion.  Due to the tension between Stalin 
and Tito, Yugoslavia asked for assistance from the US and with several 
billion dollars in aid, Yugoslavia gave the illusion of an economic socialist 
boom but it was only a temporary illusion of "successful socialism" 
politically, economically and culturally.
Eventually the economic planning failed to produce growth and created a large 
trade deficit and weakened currency.  The oil crisis of 1973-1974 and 1979 
exacerbated Yugoslavia's problems and by the 1980's faced serious payment 
problems and rising inflation.  The IMF then stepped in requiring credit 
restriction, cutting social spending and devalued the dinar. These IMF 
"reforms" eventually created further economic crisis and political 
instability and the degeneration of the standard of living undermined the 
leadership and began to aggrevate ethnic tensions.
    
In January 1989 Ante Markovic was named Premeir and visited President Bush 
and was described as "Washington's best ally in Yugoslavia" and the US 
capitalists "welcomed Mr. Marcovic's committment to market oriented economic 
reform and to building democratic pluralism."  Marcovic than asked the 
capitalists for "United States assistance in making economic and political 
changes opposed by hard-liners in the Communist Party."  The aid Marcovic 
requested was $1 billion in loans from the World Bank and invited private 
investment into Yugoslavia.  He promised in return to create "reforms" but 
also realized and said that the "reforms" "are bound to bring social problems 
including an increasae in unemployment to about 20% and the threat of 
increased ethnic and political tensions among the country's 6 republics and 
two autonomous provinces."  (NY Times 10/14/89)
    
In October 1989 Marcovic's collusion with the US capitalists did not work but 
deepened the crisis further.  The plan called for a new devalued currency, a 
6 month wage freeze, closure of "unprofitable" state enterprises and reduced 
social spending.  It was the Serbs who first realized this plan would lead to 
social unrest which led to Serbia immediately rejecting it and about 650,000 
Serbian workers walked out in protest.  It was at this point that Bosnia and 
Croatia supported by US imperialism began secessionist plans that ignited 
ethnic tensions.
In June 1990 Marcovic began the second phase of his plan although industrial 
output had already fallen 10%.  This second phase required further reductions 
of 18% in social spending, the wholesale privitazation of state enterprises 
and the establishment of new private property rights.
    
The IMF also controlled the Yugoslav central bank which crippled the ability 
to finance its economic and social programs. State revenues that should have 
gone to the republics was withheld and used to pay creditors.  It was these 
reforms that fuelled secessionist and ethnic problems.  Within 2 years, more 
than one half of the country's banks were closed and replaced with 
"independent profit-oriented institutions."
    
Marcovic also passed financial legislation that forced "insolvent" businesses 
into bankruptcy or liquidation.  From 1989 - 9/90 more than a thousand 
companies went bankrupt.  By 1990 the annual GDP growth rate fell to a -7.5% 
and in 1991 it fell another 15% and industrial output fell 21%.  By September 
1990, more than 600,000 Yugoslavs had lost their jobs.  Already laid-off and 
"redundant" workers constituted two thirds of the industrial workforce.  
(World Bank, Industrial Restructuring Study:  Overview,Issues and Strategy 
for Restructuring, Washingto, DC 6/91, Annex 1)
According to the World Bank, another 2,435 industrial enterprises were slated 
for liquidation.
    
In 1970 Yugoslavia's foreign debt was $2 billion, in 1975 it was $6 billion 
and by 1980 it was $20 billion, representing over one quarter of the national 
income and debt servicing taking up 20% of export revenue.  The debt 
servicing and repayment increased tensions resulting in the fracturing of the 
republics.  Most of the industrial development was in the north - Croatia and 
Slovenia - with the south supplying the raw materials.  As the prices of raw 
materials fell, the economic inequalities between the republics increased, 
the richer provinces such as Croatia and Slovenia objected to paying more 
than the poorer provinces.  These inequalities increased tensions and began 
the demands for the northern republics for greater autonomy...the movement 
for secession is created by US imperialist destabilization...not human rights 
abuses.
    
When the IMF measures began to deteriorate Yugoslavia's economy, religious 
rivalries and ethnic rivalries came to the surface in order to control the 
shrinking resources.  It was the IMF measures that were the trigger of social 
disorder taking the form of massive and repeated strikes and labor actions 
and not ethnic friction as the bourgeois propagandists and opportunists want 
us to believe.  Susan Woodward, in a study for the Brookings Institute in 
1995 said, "Ordinary people turned into ethnic monsters only after all their 
options for a normal economic life were destroyed. 'Ethnic cleansing' arrived 
only after 'shock therapy' (IMF) had done its work."
    
So what are we then to believe about the propaganda lies that this crisis is 
attributed to only Milosevic and the Serbs?  What are we to believe about the 
"nationalism" of Milosevic?
The problem of the Serbian people is that they are extremely divided, both 
geographically and between 2 identities...Yugoslav and Serb.  They are 
divided historically between  WW II Partisans and Chetniks and sociologically 
between rural and urban residents. They were also divided politically as 
socialist reformers and of the political tradition of the pre-Communist past. 
 Because of the geographical division of the Serbs, the disintegration of 
Yugoslavia they feared inevitably would cause a crisis of Serb unity.  The 
"Greater Serbia" concept was that of the Serbs living in Croatia and Bosnia 
only out of the fear of being cut off from Serbia because of the secession of 
these two republics.  "Greater Serbia" was not an idea or goal of 
Milosevic...only propaganda to discredit and demonize him and the Serbs.
    
In 1991, Serbs in Croatia were being attacked by Croatian nationalist 
militia's who proudly proclaimed traditional allegiance to the fascist 
Ustachi which provoked the Yugoslav army...with its Partisan traditions and 
fears of a revival of genocide they expericence by the Ustachi Croatian state 
during WW II.  The slogan "all Serbs in one state" was used to imply a 
security that they felt they would lose if they became a minority in a 
hostile Croatian and Muslim state.
    
Milosevic's "nationalism" is more of a mixture of Yugoslav multinationalism 
and reformist economic concepts.  His ideology is influenced by JUL which is 
a collection of "leftist" progressive thought and praise of virtues of 
multi-ethnic society.  There is absolutely no evidence of a nationalism based 
on "dehumanizing beliefs" attributed to Milosevic and the Serbs - NONE.  On 
the other hand, much can be said of the "dehumanizing beliefs" of the 
Albanian nationalists and self-proclaimed Marxist-Leninist opportunists!!

Milosevic's "nationalism" is found in that he wanted to hang onto what was 
left of Yugoslav "socialism" and to control the key institutions such as the 
police and state media.

The Kosovo policy of Milosevic was "nationalist" in that he wanted to keep 
Kosovo within Serbia and prevent the Albanian majority from driving out the 
Serbian minority and there is still no evidence of any plan to drive out the 
Albanian majority.
    
Milosevic is not a Marxist-Leninist but he is not the fascist dictator the 
bourgeoisie and their opportunistic Marxist-Leninist apologists claim.  He 
has never preached an "eliminationalist project" of "racial hatred" which can 
be confirmed by reading his published speeches.
Milosevic having been a collusionist with US capitalism and then severing his 
ties to their demands knew the aim of the US imperialists in the Balkans.  He 
knew the control US imperialism had over Tudjman and the KLA and was willing 
to use the Yugoslav army and police in defense of breaking up Yugoslavia.  
This is his only crime.  The crimes of genocide were fabrications attributed 
to him that were caused by the IMF...US capitalism and its fascist proxy 
forces of the KLA creating the conditions.
    
The secessionist movements which were a creation of US imperialism were based 
on the illusion that US imperialism and NATO will assist them in their 
so-called "self-determination" struggles and then recognize them as sovereign 
nations!!  Hell will freeze over first!!

The KLA then began their attacks on Serbian targets which met with counter 
attacks by Serb forces who realized this as nothing but threats by 
imperialist proxies to dismantle Yugoslavia to accomplish the aims of US 
imperialism.
    
The US imperialist knew that the Yugoslav forces would respond with 
overwhelming aggressiveness as this was the same patterns used in Vietnam.  
As the US military became less capable of determining between "friendly" and 
"hostile" Vietnamese, they all became the enemy and we waged war against the 
entire rural population of Vietnam, "destroying villages in order to save 
them."
    
Rambouillet was a staged propaganda farce intended to set Milosevic up 
knowing he would not agree to the occupation and domination of Yugoslavia by 
NATO.  This was intended to also force Milosevic into an aggressive stance to 
justify US imperialist intervention and destruction of a sovereign nation.  
Knowing full well the imperialist destruction of Yugoslavia would force 
Milosevic into action it would give the imperialists the enemy they could 
portray to the world as the Devil Incarnate and thousands of refugees as the 
victims of his Satanic fury for which the imperialists themselves were solely 
responsible for!  In reality the display of Albanian refugees is a propaganda 
exercise.  If the imperialists were really interested in the "humanitarian" 
plight of the refugees they would have stopped the bombing.  They are silent 
about the atrocities the KLA committed against both Serb and Albanians who 
did not support the reactionary KLA "self-determination" struggle and the 
bourgeoisie's "free press" portrayed the KLA as courageous "freedom 
fighters."  A lie some self-proclaimed Marxist-Leninists seem to have 
swallowed.
    
Never in its history has US imperialism acted in the interests of the 
working-class, or of the oppressed people they cynically claim to defend.  
Power, privilege, prestige and profit are their only interests and these 
principles alone dominate all the actions of the capitalists.  It is sheer 
stupidity born of contemptible arrogance to believe that US imperialism will 
be compassionate, benevolent and concerned with human rights and that "at 
times capitalism has the same interests as the people" like the opportunist 
Miller and Kumar would have us believe.
    
The crisis in the Balkans is the inevitable results of relying on US 
imperialism to solve the problems of worker and oppressed peoples.  The 
working class in war as in peace can only rely on their own forces, their own 
power, their own solidarity and strength.
    
The proleatriat and its organizations must maintain its class independence 
offering no support to imperialism whose actions can never be in the 
interests of working people nor can their problems be solved under 
capitalism.  Once we lose sight of the class standpoint we are lost.  The 
pro-imperialist opportunists masquerading as Marxist-Leninists are all out to 
sea, seeking a "practical" solution by supporting one nationalism for another 
and have reduced the national question to a football match, supporting one 
side or the other.
    
The poison of nationalism offers nothing to the Balkan people but a future of 
fratricidal war.  The Balkan nightmare can only be ended by the united action 
of the working-class, not by supporting one or the other of the imperialist 
powers, not by supporting one nationalist regime over another and certainly 
not by supporting a fascist and reactionary organization like the 
self-appointed KLA.
Since when did the imperialist alliance fight wars to defend oppressed 
nations, oppose dictatorships and uphold the right of nations to 
self-determination?  The idea is abominably laughable as are those 
opportunists who hold such views!  Any self-proclaimed Marxist-Leninist who 
believes that "imperialism at times shares the same interests as the people" 
is nothing but a half-witted opportunist.  It is a mockery of 
Marxism-Leninism to espouse such revisionist rubbish.

    Lenin explained over and over that the right to self-determination was 
not an absolute right, but is always subordinate to the general interest of 
the proletariat and international proletariat.
    In what way does the slaughter and destruction of the last 10 years in 
Yugoslavia and now in Macedonia advance the cause of the working-class and 
international socialism?  The dismemberment of the Balkans has not one single 
iota of progressive content.  By dividing the people and enflaming national 
racism, it has only further set back the cause of socialism and created 
calamities for the working-class which is exactly what US imperialism and its 
opportunists intended to begin with!  To invoke the name of Lenin to justify 
the perversion of KLA "self-determination" is a mockery.
  
Beyond the attempt to strangle the national sovereignty of Yugoslavia, the 
real objective of US imperialism is to increase the long-term military 
presence of US imperialism in the Balkans in order to achieve the total and 
effective political and economic control of the entire region.  The only 
alternative is a struggle both against imperialist control and the attempts 
of the revisionists and bourgeois KLA nationalists as emerging capitalist 
profiteers to carve out their own power bases in collusion with US 
imperialism. Self-determination in the Bakans is impossible without a joint 
struggle of its people against US imperialism.  Independence, economic 
development and real democracy in the Balkans are only possible through the 
voluntary cooperation of its different peoples...the proletariat...in 
opposition to US imperialism's divide and conquer tactics ...not through 
small fragmented states.  There is no need for self-determination...only a 
class conscientousness and understanding of who the enemy really is....US 
Capitalism.

It is the failure of dialectical thinking and a scientific understanding of 
the mechanism of events known as imperialism by opportunists who think that 
"imperialism at times shares the same interests of the people."  It is no 
wonder that such opportunists will sucumb to a jingoistic and nationalistic 
racism and try to convince us that Milosevic and the Serbs are solely 
responsible for the crisis in the Balkans.  They masquerade as 
Marxist-Leninists and even know a few quotations but they fall short of any 
correct analysis.  To quote Susan Woodward from her study again, "...to 
explain the Yugoslav crisis as a result of ethnic hatred is to turn the story 
upside down and begin at its end."  This is precisely the demagogic 
opportunism of Miller, Kumar and Partija rada.

Partija rada wants to claim some exclusive right to possessing the truth as 
can be seen in their shallow statement, "But you forget that dialectical 
thinker deal with the facts from terrain, not with facts seen on media or 
read on internet."  Please show me where Lenin, Stalin or whoever it is that 
you are quoting said this about dialectical thinking.  You can't because you 
are wrong.  Dialectical thinking is a complete process, a scientific process 
which includes the collection of data, cross-referencing the data collected 
to be sure that it is corroborated.  No where is there a prerequisite that 
only "facts from terrain" can establish this. Stalin puts it this way, "The 
dialectical method therefore holds that no phenomenon in nature can be 
understood if taken by itself, isolated from surrounding phenomena, inasmuch 
as any phenomenon in any realm of nature may become meangingless to us if it 
is not considered in connection with the surrounding conditions, but divorced 
from them and that vice versa, any phenomenon can be understood and explained 
if considered in its inseparable connection with surrounding phenomena, as 
one conditioned by surrounding phenomena.....The dialectical method therefore 
requires that phenomena should be considered not only from the standpoint of 
their interconncestion and interdependence, but also from the standpoint of 
their movement, their change, their development, their coming into being and 
going out of being."  This is why Partija rada and other opportunists like 
Miller cannot understand imperialism's role in the Balkans and make 
revisionist claims "that at times imperialism shares the same interests as 
the people."  Your analysis, along with Miller's is based on abstract 
pragmitism and not dialectical thinking.  That is the reason why as 
opportunists you have "the story upside down and begin at its end." Instead 
of researching the phenomena of the Balkan crisis "in connection with the 
surrounding conditions" which beginning with the recent history since WW II, 
the influence of Ustachi fascism on KLA ideology, the role of the individual 
institutions that make up US capitalism, the role of imperialism for decades 
of destabilizing the region - how all of these and numerous other variables 
created the crisis YOU fail to understand the process of dialectical thinking 
which leaves you with an incomplete and bankrupt analysis that aids the 
imperialists. Instead of trying to understand this "phenomena" in "its 
inseperable connection with surrounding phenomena" you do exactly as Stalin 
says is the opposite of dialectical thinking, "no phenomenon can be 
understood if taken by itself, isolated from surrounding phenomena, inasmuch 
as any phenomenon in nature may become meangingless to us if it is not 
considered in connection with the surrounding conditions, but divorced from 
them..."  This is precisely the failure of dialectical thinking which results 
in the opportunistic rubbish you espouse.  You divorce and seperate all of 
the variables that have created the Balkan crisis and you isolate them 
instead of putting them all together in what Stalin tells us is their 
"inseperable connection."   Another failure in the dialectical thinking of 
Miller, Kumar and Partija rada is that not only are the facts to be 
considered in a complete "interconnection" and "interdependence" but also 
from the fact the phenomena of capitalism changes.  It has changed enormously 
since the time of Lenin and Stalin.  Again, "The dialectical method therefore 
requires that phenomena should be considered........from the standpoint of 
their movement, their CHANGE,their DEVELOPMENT....."  Unless we understand 
the totality and completeness of what imperialism is and how it works, has 
changed and continues to develop we will never understand correctly how it 
parasitically destroys nation after nation.  As long as we think we think 
pragmatically we will always end up with a bankrupt analysis and be servants 
of the bourgeoisie misleading the proletariat.

Fraternally   Mark Scott  

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