RES: RES: RES: RES: Yugoslavia: what the media is hiding (The Guardian)

[Brad DeLong]

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>Necessary, but not sufficient. Althought not is the point De Long is
>raising, I would agree that the failure of socialism was related to
>lack of democracy. What happened is that the ruling class simply
>decided to restore capitalism to enjoy even more privileges. That´s
>why there was no reaction against "velvet revolution". I would even
>say that needs democracy more than capitalism given this phenomena.
>As Rosa Luxembourg said, the socialism can´t built by a
>minority, since it´s own nature excludes this possibility" (bad
>translantion from Portuguese, I think). On the other hand, I say
>it´s not suficcient to avoid these disasters mentioned by Brad
>because liberal democracies were also responsible by horrible crimes
>(but they tend to confine thoses atrocities to peripheral countries,
>not need to mention examples, right?).

Peripheral countries? Dresden? Hamburg? Had the Nazi army been a 
little bit better at holding off the Red Army and had WWII in Europe 
dragged on into the fall of 1945, we Americans would have barbecued 
Berlin with uranium and plutonium by-products.

Look back at the plans formulated during the Eisenhower 
administration for how to fight the Red Army if it came through the 
Fulda Gap...

Brad DeLong