>
> One of the many layers of the present tragedy is that the mass
movement
> that arose in Kosovo in the 1980s, culminating in a large-scale nonviolent
> creation of social institutions of the Albanian population, attracted no
> support or interest from the West. The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) is
not a
> match for the Serb ("Yugoslav") army and appears to have entertained
> illusions about a general offensive, when the tactic that might have worked
> would be guerrilla warfare.
This analysis is actually completely Trotskyist and has found one or another
expression in groups orbiting around the Mandelista Fourth International.
It is
utterly lacking in an analysis of Albanian nationalism in the 1980s, which was
racially and religiously exclusionist. The Trotskyists are generally
hostile to
Milosevic out of residual Stalinophobia. It blinds them to the nature of
various "anti-Stalinist" oppositons that have bubbled up over the decades,
including Lech Walesa's Solidarity.
Louis Proyect
(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
