On the days of perverse anti-bombing campaign on Yugoslavia, which uses the exact same bombs to to shift the whole point of the problem and cover one imperialism and racism with the imperialism of the bombs... where the luck that we all have our bombs falling on us to cover our shit! ---- The atmosphere in Belgrade is, at least for the time being, carnavalesque in a faked way — when they are not in shelters, people dance to rock or ethnic music on the streets, under the motto With poetry and music against bombs!, playing the role of the defying heroes (since they know that NATO does not really bomb civilian targets and that, consequently, they are safe!). This is where the NATO planners got it wrong, caught in their schemes of strategic reasoning, unable to forecast that the Serb reaction to bombardment will be a recourse to a collective Bakhtinian carnivalization of the social life… This pseudo-authentic spectacle, although it may fascinate some confused Leftists, is effectively the other, public, face of ethnic cleansing: in Belgrade people are defiantly dancing on the streets while, three hundred kilometers to the South, a genocide of African proportions is taking place… And the Western counterpoint to this obscenity is the more and more openly racist tone of its reporting: when the three American soldiers were taken prisoners, CNN dedicated the first 10 minutes of the News to their predicament (although everyone knew that NOTHING will happen to them!), and only then reported on the tens of thousands of refugees, burned villages and Pristina turning into a ghost town. Where is the so-much-praised Serb democratic opposition to protest THIS horror taking place in their own backyard, not only the — till now, at least, bombardments with relatively very low casualties? In the recent struggle of the so-called democratic opposition in Serbia against the Milosevics regime, the truly touchy topic is the stance towards Kosovo: as to this topic, the large majority of the democratic opposition unconditionally endorses Milosevics anti-Albanian nationalist agenda, even accusing him of making compromises with the West and betraying Serb national interests in Kosovo. In the course of the student demonstrations against the Milosevics Socialist Party falsification of the election results in the Winter of 1996, the Western media who closely followed the events and praised the revived democratic spirit in Serbia, rarely mentioned the fact that one of the regular slogans of the demonstrators against the special police forces was Instead of kicking us, go to Kosovo and kick out the Albanians!. In todays Serbia, the absolute sine qua non of an authentic political act would thus be to unconditionally reject the ideological topos of the Albanian threat to Serbia.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 08:44:47 +0000
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