The Beam in the Eye of the Empire (was Re: Kosova Redux)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>a large spectrum from neo-fascists like the Radicals in Seselj's 
>party (Yoshie, you missed the almost permanent presence of these 
>thugs in one of your posts on the SSP/JUL), "moderate" nationalists 
>like that clown Draskovic, social democrats and liberals like Vesna 
>Pesic, the "Red Bourgeoisie" in the JUL, and splinter groups from 
>the SSP(?) like this new group...

You mean the kinds of political beings who should have been locked up 
or kicked out?  Under Tito & the Old Partisans, these sorts -- be 
they Serbs, Albanians, or any other nationalities -- often faced one 
of the above fates (_or worse_ during or near the end of the Second 
World War).  Those were the days...but today we live in the 
post-Socialist/post-Social Democratic era: the era of Regress.  The 
capitalist world economy creates more and more of them, every day, in 
rich & poor nations.  The Bretton Woods institutions & the SAPs 
should take a special credit for producing reactionary nationalisms 
on the periphery & semi-periphery.  What is the most dangerous, 
though, is imperial-nationalism at the core -- especially the USA -- 
from Pat Buchanan to Bill Clinton to Ralph Nader to garden-variety 
liberals & social democrats here; but American leftists can't see the 
beam in their own eyes.

Yoshie