Henry C.K. Liu
Chris Burford wrote:
> >From the latest New Left Review, 234
>
> With thanks to Doug for finally persuading me to read him.
>
> Comments??
>
> Chris Burford
>
> London
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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> "In the last decade, the West followed a Hamlet-like procrastination
> towards the Balkans, and the present bombing has effectively all the signs
> of Hamlet's final murderous outburst in which a lot of people die
> unnecessarily - not only the King, his true target, but also his mother,
> Laertes, Hamlet himself - because Hamlet acted too late, when the right
> moment had already passed.
>
> So the West, in the present intervention which displays all the signs of a
> violent outburst of impotent aggression without a clear political goal, is
> now paying the price for the years of entertaining illusions that one could
> make a deal with Milosevic: with the recent hesitations about the ground
> intervention in Kosovo, the Serbian regime may, under the pretext of war,
> launch the final assault on Kosovo and purge it of most of the Albanians,
> cynically accepting bombing as the price to be paid."
>
> <>
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> "... the protests atainst bombing by the reformed Communist parties all
> around Europe, including the PDS, are totally misdirected: these false
> protesters against the NATO bombing of Serbia are like the caricaturized
> pseudoleftists who oppose the trial of a drug dealer, claiming that his
> crime is the result of social pathology of the capitalist system.
>
> The way to fight the capitalist New World Order is not by supporting local
> proto-fascist resistances to it, but to focus on the only serious question
> today: how to build *transnational* political movements and institutions
> strong enough to constrain seriously the unlimited rule of Capital, and to
> render visible and politically relevant the fact that the local
> fundamentalist resistances against the New World Order, from Milosevic to
> Le Pen and the extreme Right in Europe, are part of it?"
>
> Slavoj Zizek