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A good article, pointing to the problems with both the pro- and anti-Maidan currents, and for the need to cut across the current leading political agendas. Ukraine is at a critical point, those in the Eastern and Southern parts of the country who have justified fears about the Kiev government's economic austerity policies and the rise of Ukrainian nationalism and the inclusion of hard-right elements in the government are in danger of being swamped by and drawn into a very nasty Russian nationalist upsurge, whether or not the Russian government actually intervenes on the ground. Any armed response by the Kiev government that leads to casualties will intensify the Russian nationalists' campaign. The rival parallel nationalist agendas in Ukraine threaten to force people in the mixed areas of the country to declare their allegiance: Russian with Russia or Ukrainian with Ukraine. The spectre of the Yugoslav disaster is arising in Ukraine, the same dynamics which led to the internecine slaughter there are appearing in Ukraine. Unless some sort of class politics which can point to the common interests of workers in the country as a whole can cut across the growing rival nationalist upsurges, disaster is inevitable. Paul F ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
