Andrej:
>Yes, let's move on, but it is terribly painful to move on when three or four
>lefties who had never been to my country, who do not speak the language and
>do not have elementary education in historical factuality, are trying to
>deduct, according to the concepts they are holding to be universal, the
>reality of my country, with unbelievable sort of impertinence.
What an impossibly patronizing attitude. This is not about being able to
speak your language, it is about political differences. I am not an
anarchist and view Yugoslavia through the ideological prism of Marxism,
especially the analysis in Leon Trotsky's "Revolution Betrayed". If I had
to speak the native language of every country on the leading edge of the
class struggle today, I might as well watch television situation comedies
rather than participate on Internet debates. Furthermore, this is the same
lame argument that we used to hear from white Southerners during the civil
rights movement, namely that we pro-integration Northerners should not
meddle in their affairs because we don't know their history and customs.
This does not appeal to our desire for proletarian internationalism, but
caters to a kind of backwater provincialism. Finally, Noam Chomsky, your
ideological bedfellow, knows less than me about the history of your
country, I'm quite sure, but that does not prevent him from pontificating
on it.
Louis Proyect
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