Re: Re: Milosevic out?

2000-10-07 Thread kjkhoo
At 6:05 AM +0800 7/10/00, Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky wrote: In Belgrade we have had a rehearsal of the "out wih Ferdinand Marcos" play, where a good fraction of the petty bourgeoisie, with the company of diverse fractions of lower classes, seems to have tilted the balance in the Yugo armed forces

Re: Re: Re: Milosevic out?

2000-10-07 Thread Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky
En relación a [PEN-L:2763] Re: Re: Milosevic out?, el 7 Oct 00, a las 11:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: At 6:05 AM +0800 7/10/00, Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky wrote: In Belgrade we have had a rehearsal of the "out wih Ferdinand Marcos" play, where a good fraction of the petty b

Re: Re: Milosevic out?

2000-10-07 Thread Jim Devine
Yoshie wrote: Yes, and I'm saying that the opposition to neoliberal humanitarian imperialism is the key to the future of the Left at the core and the periphery. then we agree. I've been saying for a while that socialism is likely to arise as a result of the struggle against the emergent

Re: Re: Re: Re: Milosevic out?

2000-10-07 Thread Jim Devine
I had written: The protestors -- who seemed to have come from all major classes, unlike previous anti-Milosevic waves, which were primarily based in the urban middle classes -- were fighting the Yugoslav government, led by a man who had committed the ultimate sin among

Villarroel (was Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Milosevic out?)

2000-10-07 Thread Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky
En relación a [PEN-L:2787] Re: Re: Re: Re: Milosevic out?, el 7 Oct 00, a las 10:49, Jim Devine dijo: Néstor ripostes: The same could be said of the mob who gathered at the Murillo Square of La Paz, in Bolivia, in 1943, and hang President Gualberto Villaroel, whose only crime had been

Re: Re: Milosevic out?

2000-10-06 Thread Paul Phillips
On 6 Oct 00, at 12:12, Louis Proyect wrote: was elected without any "massive" voter fraud according to an op-ed piece in the NY Times this week written by a Woodrow Wilson scholar. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org/ Louis, Can you post this op-ed or give us

Re: Re: Milosevic out?

2000-10-06 Thread Carrol Cox
Louis Proyect wrote: The Russian Revolution was the product of the most advanced thinking in capitalist society. Every step in the direction toward seizing power was decided on the basis of calm reflection of the relationship of forces, etc. I agree with Lou that the defeat of Serbia is

Re: Re: Milosevic out?

2000-10-06 Thread Jim Devine
I wrote: On the drunkenness of the anti-Milosevic forces: we should remember after the October revolution, Lenin and Trotsky found themselves dealing with the mass drunkenness of the victorious workers in Petrograd. I would guess that all revolutions involving mass mobilizations (as opposed

Re: Re: Re: Milosevic out?

2000-10-06 Thread Louis Proyect
Please don't equate Milosevic, a total opportunist and rapid nationalist (though he and his wife mouth socialist rhetoric when it's convenient), with Allende, a socialist leader. It dirties the latter's memory. Milosevic presided over state-owned enterprises. By all accounts, he was determined

Re: Re: Re: Re: Milosevic out?

2000-10-06 Thread Jim Devine
I wrote: Please don't equate Milosevic, a total opportunist and rapid nationalist (though he and his wife mouth socialist rhetoric when it's convenient), with Allende, a socialist leader. It dirties the latter's memory. Louis responds: Milosevic presided over state-owned enterprises. By all

Re: Re: Milosevic out?

2000-10-06 Thread Jim Devine
I wrote: It's true that the ascension of neoliberalism in (and "Western" dominance of) Serbia will rule out the realization of the potential of state ownership. Yoshie replies: This is the main point we should focus on, since there has been no existing socialist alternative to the Milosevic

Re: Re: Milosevic out?

2000-10-06 Thread Jim Devine
I wrote: Whether one calls the relatively egalitarian statist economic development efforts "socialist" or not is the kind of sterile academic debate I try to avoid. Charles ripostes: Yet, I was responding to a post in which you seem to be telling Lou that Yugoslavia is not "socialist"

Re: Re: Milosevic out?

2000-10-06 Thread Jim Devine
I wrote: The protestors -- who seemed to have come from all major classes, unlike previous anti-Milosevic waves, which were primarily based in the urban middle classes -- were fighting the Yugoslav government, led by a man who had committed the ultimate sin among nationalists, i.e.,

Re: Re: Re: Milosevic out?

2000-10-06 Thread Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky
En relación a [PEN-L:2740] Re: Re: Milosevic out?, el 6 Oct 00, a las 15:29, Jim Devine dijo: I wrote: The protestors -- who seemed to have come from all major classes, unlike previous anti-Milosevic waves, which were primarily based in the urban middle classes -- were fighting