Buford:
>A crucial feature of overall socialist control of an economy would have
>been how to adjust for the differential in growth rates in different parts
>of the country. Block transfer of funds from areas like Serbia to Kosovo,
>may have been only part of an answer, and one open to Serb resentment.
You've got this all wrong. It was not Serb resentment, but Croatian and
Slovenian resentment. In the United States, the attitude of the Croatian
and Slovenian nationalists, encouraged by British and German imperialism,
would be analogous to the "white flight" phenomenon in which middle-class
whites want to live as far as possible from the inner-city with all the
blacks and Latin poor.
"The Slovenes, who make up just 8 percent of Yugoslavia's population while
producing 20 percent of its wealth, resent what they see as forced
subsidies, in the form of federal taxes, for poorer parts of the country.
The 2 million people of this republic, which is by far the richest and most
Westernized in the federation, pay nearly 4 1/2 times more in federal taxes
than they receive in federal programs." (LA Times, Apr. 14, 1990)
Louis Proyect
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