Original Message----- From: JaredI at aol.com <JaredI at aol.com> To: debsian at pacbell.net <debsian at pacbell.net> Cc: vjara at ivillage.com <vjara at ivillage.com> Date: Monday, January 01, 2001 1:17 PM Subject: Fwd: War Is Our Mother! (rough translation)
>I have spent my entire life fighting racism. Indeed, the thing I have
>stressed on Emperor's Clothes is that the serb bashing is racist; and this
is
>no accident because German chauvinism is here the teacher, and German
>chauvinism is explicitly anti-Slav, with a special warm spot for Serbs.
>
>Since I am obviously not a racist but an anti-racist (my passion
historically
>is John Brown, the great Abolitionist martyr) the question arises: who or
>what is this thing calling itself Pugilese? Is it a person? A committee>
To
>put things differently, if I were to punch it in its pug, would I be
directly
>attacking The State?
>
>Jared
>
>
Heh, I must confess to being the bastard child of J.B. Matthews! (See Murray Kempton's just reissued in the Modern Library, "A Part of our Time, " for the lowdown on ex-Communist, briefly a Musteite too in the American Workers Party, by the 50's staffer on the Un-American Activities Committee- btw HUAC or HCUA?- J.B. Matthews.)
Michael Pugliese, for the best in Red-Baiting Minutia shop for the Pugliese Brand.
Sold Only in Counter-Revolutionary Ideological State Apparatuses and Vendors.
P.S. Seriously, if I took the "collective responsiblity" line ala Goldhagen, which I don't, vis a vis the Serbs, by my reading I'd be taking incorrect conclusions from the record as I see it. Try the criminal kleptocracy at the summit of the Milosevic regime in Serbia. Not in the Hague.As for the vast majority of Serbs who were suckered into the nationalist demogogy I can only hope that, as should have happened in the 90's, their rage at plumitting living standards fueled by IMF externally and internally by war, corruption and repression, will take a direction based on working class/socialist and democratic demands, rather than ethno-nationalist hate. I'm not optimistic on that score though. (My sources on Serbian politics being mainly Tim Judah, "The Serbs, " Robert Thomas, "The Politics of Serbia in the 90's," S. Ramet, S. Woodward, M. Sells, the IWPR,) all these and more show much political/ideological conflict and division for such a monolothic notion of collective responsibity to be operative. Even classically totalitarian regimes [and Che Milosevic, Owen Jones was inspired coming up with that one http://www.geocities.com/leninist_international/kosovo/owen1.htm ] was far from being able to achieve that) have not/did not/weren't/won't be able to totally crush opposition. And I'd be even more foolish than the orangutan Lou was calling me the other day on the Socialist Register listserv. But I suppose a hundred of them could in a hundred years type...