I think that what this debate reflects with wonderful
clarity is what Fanon called the "pitfalls of the national
consciousness". This is linked to the debate that some of us
had just a little earlier. A purely national consciousnes
rallies to defend the leadership of the "oppressed nation"
as its bulwark against imperialism. But an anti-imperialism
that is not thoroughly guided by anti-capitalist and
anti-bourgeois radicalism simply becomes a defence of
scoundrels, opportunists and tin-pot dictators. These latter
are demagogues who know the political and rhetorical value
of "anti-imperialism" only too well. But what is so
deceiving is that their rhetoric always contains a grain of
truth. My point is that we need so much more than this
little nationalist grain of truth.
Tahir
>>> "Andrej Grubacic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/05 2:55 PM >>>
Dear Jared,
I respect your work very much, as I have told you this
several times. We,
from "Resistance web site",are publishing , with your kind
permission many
of your articles, or articles coming from your site.
So, please read this as a friendly suggestion:
Milosevic is a criminal. Big time. I am living under his
yoke, witnessing
his crimes everyday. He is a little ruthless dictator, with
a mad wife, with
two idiotic kids. He is privatizing everything, he has
organized a perfect
cleptocracy for his family and his oligarchy, he had killed
almost all of
the opposition press ( it's low quality notwithstanding, we
are talking
about freedom of thought and expression); he have stolen the
elections in
1996; his thugs are beating up kids in the middle of the
day, his assassins
are killing or kidnapping people ( Ivan Stambolic is the
most recent
example) - the list of his crimes in internal politics is
endless. And, with
regards to his external politics, people form all over the
world, good
people , are deceived with his leftist-anti imperialist
mask: he is not a
leftist. He is haunting leftist, authentic radicals, in his
own country. His
party is the richest party on this side of Colorado river.
He is using every
opportunity, and every emotion, to preserve power and to
stay on power.
Yugoslavia is a wonderful country. Yugoslav people deserve
help and
protection from "antiserb racism" which we are all witnesses
of. We should
fight back this idea of collective crime which is casted
upon us.
But Yugoslavia is not Milosevic. Fighting against
imperialism, injustices
made to Yugoslavs, new wars which Imperial States of
AmeriKKKa are
instigating on this soil, slowly but very skillfully, is
possible without
attachment to Milosevic. He doesn't deserve it. I guess that
my word isn't
enough, but please just acknowledge that I am an insider,
radical leftist
and a person who suffered a lot under foreign imperialism
and under
Milosevic. I think that this opportunity gives me a chance
to be as
objective as one could be , in complex situation like this.
With regards to Chomsky, contrary to what you may believe,
his books helped
radical leftist here to make a clearer picture about the
nature of state
violence, nature of AmeriKKKan foreign politics, European
Imperialism,
shaping of the mental images and representations, and to
offer this picture
to the people here, with much success. Chomsky helped us a
lot. His mistakes
notwithstanding. He made good deal of mistakes, yes. But who
of us, involved
in a fight for social change, for a better and healthier
society, didn't?
With respect, in solidarity,
Andrej Grubacic
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