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L-I: On the recent Yugoslav debates
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- Subject: L-I: On the recent Yugoslav debates
- From: "Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky" <[email protected]>
- Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 08:47:54 -0300
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Dear friends and comrades,
Since I am (unfortunately) back to office and (fortunately) the
political scenario in Argentina is beginning to become more demanding
on my spare time, my interventions will become less usual, and
shorter.
And there will be times, like this one, when I resort to philosophy
to sum up tons of debates. Sorry.
On the Yugoslav issue that has been recently aroused again, I would
only answer, with Gy�rgy Lukacs, that `"What makes the decissive
difference between Marxism and bourgeois science is not the thesis
that economic motivation dominates explanation in history, but the
point of view of totality ... The domination of the category of
totality holds the revolutionary principle in science." (_Rosa
Luxemburg as a Marxist_, first paragraph).
And, I should add (and that Lukacs would have agreed) in politics.
The totality, in this case, is imperialism. On this world of ours
imperialism and anti-imperialist struggle are the totality in which
we all strive or decay. What gives sense to the Yugoslav situation is
the following question: "Who is in objective need of Western help
against whom?". The first ones are the "bad guys", the second ones
the "good guys". This is the question that puts the whole puzzle in
order. It has always been so. It will always be so.
Yes, Lukacs was right.
En relaci�n a Re: Yugoslav United Left,
el 5 Mar 00, a las 22:54, Michael Pugliese dijo:
> Oh, I can do better, but what amazes me is how some lefties out of
> the
> same intellect and emotions that radicalized them in the firstplace,
> cannot apply the same skills to, in non-public settings, critique the
> governments and movements that, yes, as in the case of your beloved
> SSP and the JUL, do contest the hegemony of the imperial powers but
> also, has venal mjotives and material interests that are counter to
> the interests of the yugoslavian people, as well, in this particular
> case.
> And what was the deal with those posts from the North Korean
> regimes
> press agency? Such wooden rhetoric! I can read a Pravda from 1936,
> calling Trotsky a fascist for such bilge.
> Michael
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Macdonald Stainsby <[email protected]>
> To: Michael Pugliese <[email protected]>; N�stor M. Gorojovsky
> <[email protected]>; M A Jones <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2000 10:31 PM Subject: Re: Yugoslav United
> Left
>
>
> > Michael, the "Institute for War and Peace reporting" is a major
> > group supported by British war interests, such as MI5. Very similar
> > to "Radio
> Free
> > Europe". If this source is the best you can do, I'll stick with Milo
> > in
> the
> > face of all else. Besides, one doesn't have to support *all*
> > policies of a government to be in favour of the basic impetus of its
> > legacy
> historically.
> >
> > That would certainly be how I describe the Serbian Socialist Party.
> >
> > Mac
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Michael Pugliese <[email protected]>
> > To: N�stor M. Gorojovsky <[email protected]>; M A Jones
> > <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2000 8:48 PM
> > Subject: Yugoslav United Left
> >
> >
> > >
> http://www.iwpr.ac.psiweb.com/index.pl5?archive/bcr/bcr_20000201_2_eng
> .txt > > > > In a typical denunciation, the Yugoslav United Left
> (JUL), the governing > > coalition partner headed by Milosevic's wife,
> Mira Markovic, accused the > > opposition late last year "of having a
> weakness towards the same sex". > > >
>
>
N�stor Miguel Gorojovsky
[email protected]
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