My dear Mac,
You are a person very hard to talk too!:-)
Take this sentence, exempli gratia:
> Hey Andrej: Send me your address. I will need it to send you the basic
money
> so as you can eat this time next year...
Where were you until now? My family was literally starving under Milosevic.
My dear friends from all over the world, anarchists, trotskysts, greens,
communists - progressives in one word- helped me, and saved me, without
exaggeration, from starving.
Under MR. Milosevic, very cruel ruler, I was very poor- University is
ruined, financially, and my friends from Prague, working on the University
for small wages too, to be consequent but, even so, significantly bigger)
helped me with money and stuff. You seem to be unable to realize that we
were flat broke under Milosevic's type of privatization, impoverished,
colonized "from the inside".....As I have written to you already:
4. Kostunica really had won the fuckin elections! We are not plentiful, but
our progressive network organized a control of the elections and he really
had won. If you are a democrat, and anti-imperialist, you have to respect
this, this is a will of the people. Even if you don't like it. I was
fervently against all attempts to call Milosevic a dictator when he was
legally elected. He really had support of the people few years ago. Now, he
had lost it. If someone from the outside doesn't like this, think that
people are seduced and manipulated, it is Ok, but he must be aware that he
is behaving imperialistically himself, against the will of Yugoslav people.
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I have written, furthermore, these sentences:
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1. Because of your scarce knowledge of Yugoslav inside situation, you don't
know, I suppose, that Milosevic and his oligarchy had already made the
project- we are calling it "inside colonization"- because of which all of
Yugoslavs progressives ( communists, Marxists, anarchists) are against them:
they have privatized all the capital in their hands; so, you have JUL as a
syndicate of privileged businessmen who represent "new class" of most well
to do citizens of Yugoslavia. Yugoslav workers do hate JUL with a good
reason. Workers voted against Milosevic and his party, election showed; no
one was surprised. My father is working for a 70 dmarks ( 35 $) for a month,
my mother is receiving her pension in the amount of 50 dmarks ( 25$)...
Because Milosevic privatized state economy, destroyed public welfare
(with the help of sanctions) and he had impoverished working and all other
classes except his own. So you have a president of parliament who has three
biggest companies in the south of the country. Just to name one example.
Milosevic family is perhaps the richest one in the country: after he was
elected, 13 years ago,
his son became an owner of three ex state enterprises + numerous bakeries,
discotheques, and his doughtier has become an owner of TV station, Radio
station,
Recording Company and so on and so forth.
So, this is the reason why YU workers and progressives are of the opinion
that "inside colonization" is not better than "outside colonization"; I went
to all countries you are mentioning: YU is still the poorest one.
We are poorer than Hungary, Bulgaria, Chech Republic and Romania. Much
poorer that Poland, Croatia and Slovenia. Been there, talked to progressives
of all stripes over there. Colonization a la Milosevic or colonization a la
US Empire: well , frankly, there is no difference when it comes to ordinary
lives. We are not going to be poorer after US colonization; how can one be
poorer when he earns , as an University professor, 20$? And if he is a
worker sometimes the same and sometimes much less?
2. We are , progressives from YU, not only anarchists, very well aware of
neoliberal danger; we have participated in organization of protests in
Eastern Europe, Western Europe, even in the US; some of us are now in
Prague. But mere existence of this danger is not a justification for
Milosevic; we are against him because of different reasons: impoverishing
the country and getting himself and his surrounding excessively rich,
behaving like a dictator, forbidding papers, free speech , molesting
people...
You have to abandon the myth of "Milosevc the anti-imperialist" if you want
to see things more clearly. To feel the "inside context".
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So, this is the situation....While our little bourgeois revolution was going
on, I was at the meeting with YU progressives anarchists, greens, feminists,
syndicalists , about our next moves against new dictatorship ( please, don't
let my vocabulary puzzle you: for me every form of government is a
dictatorship; so "new government" to be precise) and neoliberal program. We
were considering grassroots international organization initiatives, and
forming a network of support for various parts of the world , starting with
Eastern Europe and the Balkans.
So, to be brief, I really do not see a reason to treat my arguments as I am
some sort of leftist ignorant who is not aware of forthcoming perils. My
dear Mac, do not schematize everything: every story has it's inside context;
it is highly inappropriate and impudent to advice or reproach people while
being uninformed about their real situation. This could be, despite your
good intentions, "imperialistic behavior". Please, leave us alone to fight
our own battles. Thanx for the support but don't let this drag you in
position of "know it all" leftist. And, if you really want my address , I
can send it to you: I am sure, without your warnings, that under neoliberal
yoke we are not going too live better. But we are not going to be poorer
either: in my case at least, and for YU workership moreso, I don't think
that it is possible. 35 US$ ? Don't tell me that this is a salary in Hungary
too, because I know it is not.
Comradely,
Andrej
"I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of
authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to
challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are
illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human
freedom." - Noam Chomsky, Red & Black Revolution
> Macdonald
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