Chris Burford wrote:
>
> Your are ignoring 10 years of propaganda about Blackbird Field. Is there
> such a mystery that in many former socialist countries elements have turned
> to nationalism whether bourgeois or fascist, and drawn on mystical nonsense
> to give a sense of solidarity to resist the cannonade of neo-liberal
> commodities.
>
I agree with your argument here and a few others that I have seen herein, listwise, as it regards the failure of the 'left' with this particular war and its 'opposition'. But lets leave that aside.
Is not 'mystical nonsense' an oversimple critique?
I mean in particular some analysis of the existing opposition in Serbia and how we are to read it. Fools subject to 'mystical nonsense' or variant languages of non-sense as they oppose both milosevic and 'neo' - 'liberalism'?
A cannonade indeed. But perhaps the schizophrenic mystical nonsense of this particular serb 'opposition' in the face of *its* consequences, what has it allowed in terms of inhumanity, in terms of opposition to the cannonade.
Not to hold it to a different standard, but maybe this struggle is representative in different ways.
mc