The Beam in the Eye of the Empire

[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
>
>Lock 'em up and kick 'em out! Yup, that's a good socialist pluralist
>logician in there! ;-)
>Some faith in the ability of the masses who supposedly will make socialism
>to figure out things themselves w/o some Party with a direct line to The
>Truth.

Good liberals should argue, "Hand them over to the International War 
Crimes Tribunal!"  That _really_ shows _faith_ in the masses.

In any case, you don't appear to care much about folks in Serbia, 
Albania, etc. one way or another.  The only thing you care about is 
apparently how to satisfy your political voyeurism, an obsession with 
surfaces (Seselj, Draskovic, Pesic, the JUL, the SPS, etc.), without 
any desire to investigate & explain their causes: domestic and 
international; political, economic, historical, etc. (what domestic & 
international conditions caused their rise? who supported each party? 
what were various parties' politico-economic programs? etc.).  That's 
my judgment because I haven't seen anything resembling a _coherent 
argument_ coming from your corner, unlike any other political trend 
(e.g. Chris; Seth; Johaness; Carrol; etc.) that has commented upon 
the subject here & elsewhere.

Yoshie