I’ve listened to this speech several times. This doesn’t discuss what happened in Yugoslavia after the collapse, at all. Parenti is one of the most prominent and published communists in the 21st century. This isn’t just some uneducated slop.
just because someone is prominent and published doesn’t mean it’s right, and just because it’s wrong doesn’t mean it is uneducated slop, what you should be very aware of is that he is just as much trying to push a narrative as he accuses others of doing, the difference is once you actually stop to speak to some of the older people in the region it becomes very obvious that the three-way genocide was a result of long-standing ethnic/religious tensions that predate even the socialist movement in the region, but instead brought to a point with the fall of the somewhat authoritarian government leaving these ethnic lines as some of the only way the people identified each other as, along with a general distrust between these groups that the Tito-ist government exasperated, that is amazing is that it lasted any amount of time
Once again, you’re assuming things about this speech without listening to it. He never makes the claim that Yugoslavia collapsed only due to the economic warfare. It’s a significant factor, not the sole factor. It feels like you don’t want to acknowledge the role the US played in flaring those deeply complex conflicts. This speech is based on his book “To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia”, in which he did exactly that, travel to Yugoslavia and talk to people in the former state. Parenti, like most socialists, doesn’t believe that Yugoslavia (or any nation under the rule of a communist party for that matter) was a communist utopia. He acknowledges the flaws in Yugoslavia, and never claims or even insinuates that ethnic hatred was created by the US. It’s naive to claim that the US Appropriations Act of 1991 had nothing to do with the the dissolution of the state though.
I’ve listened to this speech several times. This doesn’t discuss what happened in Yugoslavia after the collapse, at all. Parenti is one of the most prominent and published communists in the 21st century. This isn’t just some uneducated slop.
just because someone is prominent and published doesn’t mean it’s right, and just because it’s wrong doesn’t mean it is uneducated slop, what you should be very aware of is that he is just as much trying to push a narrative as he accuses others of doing, the difference is once you actually stop to speak to some of the older people in the region it becomes very obvious that the three-way genocide was a result of long-standing ethnic/religious tensions that predate even the socialist movement in the region, but instead brought to a point with the fall of the somewhat authoritarian government leaving these ethnic lines as some of the only way the people identified each other as, along with a general distrust between these groups that the Tito-ist government exasperated, that is amazing is that it lasted any amount of time
Once again, you’re assuming things about this speech without listening to it. He never makes the claim that Yugoslavia collapsed only due to the economic warfare. It’s a significant factor, not the sole factor. It feels like you don’t want to acknowledge the role the US played in flaring those deeply complex conflicts. This speech is based on his book “To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia”, in which he did exactly that, travel to Yugoslavia and talk to people in the former state. Parenti, like most socialists, doesn’t believe that Yugoslavia (or any nation under the rule of a communist party for that matter) was a communist utopia. He acknowledges the flaws in Yugoslavia, and never claims or even insinuates that ethnic hatred was created by the US. It’s naive to claim that the US Appropriations Act of 1991 had nothing to do with the the dissolution of the state though.