> The nonaligned
> movement provided a sanctuary for movements that wanted to be politically
> independent of Imperialism without endorsing the Soviet system.
Anyone who thought that was either a saint, a fool or a charlatan. What was
needed however was something different.
>Especially
> important in Stalin's time; he had an unfortunate habit of dictating that
> anti-imperialist movements do disastrous and even suicidal things, as the
> tactical mood hit him. The nonaligned movement nurtured resistance
> along the
> lines of Lumumba and Castro. Of course Soviet power shielded them from the
> U.S.
A little more chapter and verse on Stalin's alleged misdeeds would be nice.
Talk is cheap. And if anyone mentions Greece again without telling us
something concrete to substatniate their wild ideas, I'll be obliged to really
start disinterring my archives.
> Why the stupid bait, Mark?
There was no bait, or stupidity either.
> The Balkans is a) a crucial "conjuncture" of the Anglo-U.S. and
> semi-competing German efforts to conquer the East and b) poses the
> question,
> for the world: is independence from the new Anglo-U.S. empire possible?
This indeed is exactly the right way of posing the issues we ought to be
discussing in great and concerete detail.
> It
> is intimately linked to Iraqi resistance (the Serbs were providing military
> technical support for Iraq; the new regime betrayed the Iraquis), to the
> increase in Chinese resistance/independence, to the question of
> whether Cuba
> can survive as independent, and so on.
Of course, they are interconnected. Some of the stuff on your site addresses
these issues, and some of the Chussodovsky material offers some useful
starting points.
>
> What you really mean, Mark, is we should do nothing while England and the
> U.S. destroy Yugoslavia because 50 years ago the former Yugoslavia
> refused to
> bow to Stalin and for you that is unforgivable.
This is simply a misread of me.
Mark
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