Louis,
That was me, Barkley, not Max.
I agree that His Excellency is no Hitler. He is not
out to conquer the world, and so far has not committed
genocide or called for it, despite some pretty ugly stuff.
But I don't think the Nicaragua/Miskito example is
very good either. Were the Miskitos oppressing regular
Nicaraguans during some period of autonomy? I don't
think so, although I could be mistaken.
Barkley Rosser
-----Original Message-----
From: Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, April 20, 1999 1:38 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:5619] When Adolf Hitler defended self-determination
>Max wrote:
>> Uh, the analogy can be made just as well to
>>Serbia vis a vis Kosovo with the shoe on the other
>>foot. After all, Serbia is protecting its own national
>>minority against the majority Albanians in Kosmet,
>>the basis for His Excellency's Yugoslavia-destroying
>>speech at Kosovo Polje on June 28, 1989 at which
>>he outlined an approach that he is following today.
>
>Serbia is a small, underdeveloped country with a population of 10 million
>or so. The US and Nazi Germany were powerful imperialist nations bent on
>conquest. They use the pretext of defending "captive nations" in order to
>extend their imperial control. I think a better way of understanding the
>problem in Yugoslavia is through the analogy with Sandinista Nicaragua, who
>faced a secessionist movement on the Atlantic coast backed by US
imperialism.
>
>Louis Proyect
>
>(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
>
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