"Punishment"? Re: Centralization

[billbartlett at dodo.com.au]

None of these web addresses seem in the least relevant to the issue of socialism in Yugoslavia in particular, or economics in Yugoslavia in general. On the contrary one of the links leads to a facile article (On Religion and Genocide in Bosnia) which seeks to explain the history of the Kosovo conflict in terms entirely devoid of economic context.

Bill Bartlett
Bracknell Tas

At 8:24 AM -0700 8/7/02, Michael Pugliese wrote:


> >Market Socialism was in  Yugoslavia after WW2.  It didn't  seem to
>collapse.
>
>If you say so. Looks pretty  collapsed to me.
>
>Bill Bartlett
>Bracknell Tas
>
>   Huge debts to the IMF incurred during the latter part of the Tito
>period, the acsension of Milosevic after he pushed out his mentor, the
>democratic Communist, Ivan Stambolic
>http://faculty.virginia.edu/setear/courses/howweget/milo.htm
>(assasinated a few yrs. ago, I'd say by the same cuddly folks that
>killed Arkan), the manipulation of long-standing ethno-religious
>nationalist myths derived from 1389, destroyed yugoslav socialism.
>
>http://www.icjs.org/news/vol9/Sells.html
>News & Letters - The Journal of Marxist-Humanism - August/ ...
>... A September 1999 article by Laura Secor in LINGUA FRANCA ... Most
>prominent among them
>has been Mihailo Markovic of the Praxis group, who already in 1990 was
>...
>http://www.newsandletters.org/Issues/1999/Oct/10.99_olat.htm
>
>Michael Pugliese