At 14:16 21/04/99 +0930, you wrote:
>Bob writes:
>
>"Intersting that Ian has the same position on arming the KLA as the CIA but
>it will hardly solve the question. In fact since the break up of Yugoslavia
>the arming of various nationalist formations (Croatia, Bosnians,and now the
>KLA has helped imperialism achieve the goal of destroying this former
>deformed workers state and the rise of nationalism and communal bloodbaths
>where the only difference in attrocities being carried out depends on who
>got the most guns..."
>
>Well, I find it interesting too that my position is the same as the CIA's
>(this CIA position is news to me, but then I am not a close follower). I
>agree also that "the only difference in attrocities being carried out
>depends on who got the most guns." Croation (against Serbs and Muslims)
>and, to a lesser extent, Muslim attrocities (against Serbs and Croats) are
>well known (although Serbs complain correctly that the crime against
>humanity of expelling some 150,000 Serbs from Krajina is glossed over amnd
>ignored while the crimes of Milosevic are made the pretext for massive
>bombing). However, it does depend on who has the "most" guns. While there
>is no guarantee that arming the KLA will not result in Serbs being expelled
>from Kosovo, I think it is the best guarantee that 1.8 million Albanians
>will not be expelled. It is, of course, not a guarantee of an acceptable
>outcome, but I think it is likely to be better than what will happen if
>Serbs continue to have nearly all the guns.
>cheers,
>Ian
>
>Dr Ian Hunt,
>Associate Professor in Philosophy,
>Director, Centre for Applied Philosophy,
>Philosophy Dept, School of Humanities,
>Flinders University of SA,
>Humanities Building,
>Bedford Park, SA, 5042,
>Ph: (08) 8201 2054 Fax: (08) 8201 2556
Bob Malecki, supporter of the creation of a new world centre of Leninist
leadership shows his bourgeois pacifism by surprisingly finding
atrocities on all sides. He thereby apologises for the qualitatively
fascist nature of the Serb national socialism. But that is consistent with
his leftist ridicule of the idea of an international united front against
fascism.
Even in 1917 when Lenin argued the situation was revolutionary, which it is
not now, he wrote:
"Bourgeois pacifists, and their 'Socialist' imitators, or followers, have
always pictured, and now picture, peace as being something in principle
distinct from war, for the pacifists of both shades have never understood
that 'war is the continuation of the politics of peace and peace is the
contuation of the politics of war'"
"Bourgeois Pacifism and Socialist Pacificism" January 1917
But Bob cannot make a coherent analysis of the different politics of the
different groups involved because no distinctions are necessary: every
thing is a manichean struggle between good and evil.
Infantile, to quote Lenin again.
Chris Burford
London
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