Re: NATO, Kosovo, Russia

>Louis,
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>Enough with imperialism. Just accept that without this historic
>reality the world would be very different indeed today. Don't see just
>black and white, there is grey there as well.
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>Greg Chalik
>University of Sydney

I assume that the message I received was meant for the list, so I will
answer it publicly. Is your blithe acceptance of imperialism connected to
world systems theory as you understand it or are you just a garden variety
right-winger? The reason I ask is that Lenin's analysis was rooted in World
War One, the grandfather of today's fighting in the Balkans. He studied the
global economy because millions of young men were dying needlessly. On the
other hand, if studying the world economy is simply an intellectual
exercise, then the urgency to connect the analysis to political action
might seem pointless. Get what I mean?



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>---Louis Proyect <lnp3@panix.com> wrote:
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>> >oh, yeah; I guess its that simple.  Funny how Radovan Karadic is
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>> >running free (indeed everyone knows where he lives) even though he's
>> >been indicted by the War Crimes Tribunal.  Courts ... great idea. 
>Pity
>> >the criminal court for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague is such a
>> >resounding failure.
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>> I didn't literally mean that NATO should have the green light to bomb
>> Serbia because of a World Court decision. The problem with World Court
>> decisions is that they are generally ignored by imperialist powers
>when
>> they go against them, especially the United States which was found
>guilty
>> of mining the harbors of Nicaragua and many other crimes. In reality
>"law
>> and order" does not apply to the problems of war and peace in the
>epoch of
>> imperialism. World War One dramatized this as the "democracies" sent
>> millions to die in trench warfare because "plucky" Belgium--the
>Kosovo of
>> that time--was being raped by Germany. It's all bullshit, just as the
>> excuses being given for NATO bombing today.
>> 
>> Louis Proyect
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>> (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
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