> Excuse me, you are not at all a National-Bolchevique, rather a fascist! The difference being... well, not particularly clear as neither is a particularly well delineated position. Personally, I rather like the democratic, liberal institutions of Western Europe, imperfect as they are. Whilst I am suspicious of the universalist tendencies of the Enlightenment etc., right here, right now, they're what we've got and I can't think of any system of governance that would do the job better - certainly not any aestheticised barbaric arbitrary tyranny. Anyhow, even the former national-revolutionary Ernst Juenger mellowed out and was quite happy to live in and accept the honours awarded by the Federal Republic. (And from what I can tell Milosevic doesn't even qualify for Benjamin's definition of fasciscm as aestheticisation of politics - the Nazis and Italian Fascists at least had a perverse sense of pomp and style). The man has been a disaster for ordinary Serbs - he hasn't won a single war, having been defeated in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and now Kosovo. He whipped up Serb nationalism and facilitated the deployment of vicious paramilitaries in wars which were ultimately unwinnable with the result that (different) Serbs have become both criminals and victims, both ethnically cleansing and ethnically cleansed. Must get back to completing my thesis, JK ============================================================================== John King St. John's College GB - Oxford OX1 3JP ==============================================================================
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