Louis,
The complaint about worker seizures was made
by you in an earlier posting, not this latest one.
Barkley
----- Original Message -----
From: "Louis Proyect" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 1:52 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:9750] Re: Re: Re: Once again history is stranger than
fiction
> >Louis,
> > You are right that the article does not provide
> >much evidence of thievery by Milosevic personally.
> >But it certainly provides quite a bit of it regarding
> >his cronies. To say that most of those millions
> >abroad were strictly for getting around the embargo
> >is naivete at the worst.
>
> There is no evidence, just assertions. In the one instance where there is
> something substantial, it amounts to this:
>
> "Mladjan Dinkic, the new central bank governor who is on a crusade to
> recover the cash, estimates the overall sum at $4bn. The bulk was
> used not for personal gain, but to keep Serbia trading through a decade of
> United Nations economic sanctions."
>
> I have done a thorough Lexis-Nexis search on Milosevic and corruption. The
> one thing that kept getting mentioned was that there was patronage. Big
> deal, I say. No reason to make the country and its leaders a pariah.
>
> > The issue of corrupt privatizations by his cronies
> >was discussed at length.
>
> Sure, it did get discussed.
>
> >One of the more bizarre
> >remarks you made in connection with all this was your
> >complaint about "illegal" seizures by workers of enterprises
> >in Serbia. Once again, most of those were to undo the
> >corrupt privatizations carried out by Milosevic's cronies.
> >The reporting of this has been extensive.
>
> I have no idea what you are referring to. The only thing being "undone" in
> Serbia today is state ownership. What else would you expect from a
> government that begs for imperialist dollars like a dog at a dining table.
>
>
> Louis Proyect
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