DIDN'T YOU HEAR PERELMAN TO CUT THIS OUT? YOU HAVE WRITTEN 3 TIMES ON THIS
TOPIC AND I HAVE NOT ANSWERED YOU. GET A CLUE.
At 03:34 PM 3/29/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Louis,
> Just in case you have not noticed, I am not
>a fan of rapid privatizations or ones that emphasize
>foreign takeovers. I have been in favor of the Slovenian
>model on privatization, from workers' management
>to workers' ownership, although I understand that you
>are ultimately not a fan of that.
> Are you denying the widespread reports that there
>were corrupt privatizations under Milosevic? I know that
>you want to turn him into a great socialist hero. But it
>just is not going to fly very far, although if the folks in
>Serbia now really mess things up, he may end up as that,
>sort of.
> BTW, the kind of thing going on under him resembled
>what went on under Tudjman in Croatia, corrupt privatizations
>for cronies. The Tudjman crowd is now out also. I have
>long argued that the similarities between Tudjman and
>Milosevic far outweighed their apparent differences.
>Barkley Rosser
>----- 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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>>
>>
>
>
Louis Proyect
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