Click the URL's esp. for the great aufheben piece> etnicizing NATOsevic by Harald Beyer-Arneson, I think. Michael Pugliese >funny how one can easily disconnect nationalism from economy. jc helary http://www.ainfos.ca/99/may/ainfos00083.html (en) The BALKAN WAR and leftist apologetics for the Milosovic regime >From Harald Beyer-Arnesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date Tue, 11 May 1999 15:05:43 -0400 http://www.idea.org.uk/cfront/texts/other/kosovo-subjectivities-en.html (Kosov@ – Contradictions and Subjectivities (Ethnicizing Social Conflicts - The Example of Yugoslavia - With an Updated Annex). Available online at <http://www.nadir.org/nadir/archiv/Internationalismus/jugoslawien/materialie n_06/>, updated annex at <http://www.humanrights.de/antikrieg/texte/antii_d.htm>. http://www.google.com/search?q=Ethnicizing+and+Natosevic+&btnG=Google+Search http://csf.colorado.edu/pen-l/apr99/msg02975.html http://www.webcom.com/wildcat/Yugoslavia.html http://www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/guest/radical/ESBOSNIA.HTM Bosnia and the poison of nationalism http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/Aut_html/Auf1edit.htm http://lists.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/aut_html/Aufheben/yugo.html Class Decomposition In The New World Order: Yugoslavia Unravelled (1) Introduction Whilst there have been numerous wars around the globe over the last forty-eight years, Europe has seen only the mundane brutality of everyday capitalist social relations. But once again the spectre of war haunts the proletarians of the continent. The former republics of Yugoslavia have lurched into a bitter cycle of war, and the images of the suffering provide a terrifying reminder of the capacity of the working class to carve itself up along national lines. Are we heading for a major European war? Will the events of the past couple of years in Yugoslavia be repeated throughout Eastern Europe? An analysis of the conflict is clearly imperative. Such an analysis is made more difficult however both by our separation from the events, leading to a lack of information from 'below', and by the endless stream of depressing details on the conflict in the media making any attempt to keep abreast of events into a desensitising test of endurance. So this article will be limited to an attempt to simplify the conflict by grasping the material roots of the nationalist tensions. The first problem lies with deciding where to start. A possible starting point would be the formation of the first (monarchist) Yugoslavia after WW1, as the internal migration of Serbs under the Serb-dominated regime (to be followed by a similar migratory flow after WW2) helped produce the ethnic mish-mash with which we are now familiar. Another possibility is WW2 and the genocide perpetrated by the Ustashe which helps explain the fear of persecution so characteristic of current Serbian nationalist ideology. Neither of these starting points seem to provide the best means of unravelling the conflict however, as the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia did hold together for well over forty years despite its ethnic diversity and the experiences of WW2. Instead, the focus of the analysis has to be the 1974 Constitution, which appears to be a pivotal moment in the shaping of Socialist Yugoslavia; so, to begin with, we have to examine the factors which gave rise to it. (2) Class Recomposition. <snip>
