Chomsky whines about the USSR and calls its collapse "a win for the left". Absolutely unbelievable. Of course he has nothing to say about 1993 protests or the fact that the majority of Russians who experienced life in the USSR want it back.
Zizek calls China a "bad model for the left". Of course no actual socialist experiment is ever good enough for the ivory tower intellectual. Even worse, he keeps saying he hopes that China will liberalize its government. So fuck the DotP, lets just give away power to the capitalists, because that is literally what will happen in a liberal democracy, and he knows it.
it is wholly uncritical of the serbian right's role in balkanization/the balkan wars, and the way milosevic enabled those parts of his government/military
The entire point is that you can point out nato, tudman, izetbegovic, etc.'s atrocities and nazi ties while staying critical of the ultranationalist serbs that rode milosevic into power. Even fucking Serbian documentarians producing social history of the balkan wars do.
this is clear in my other comments in this thread. I suggest reading them
Nah you completely missed his point and the fact you can't point to a specific paragraph or point in the article is telling.
Everyone knows about the Serbs atrocities - he mentions them loads of times.
The Yugoslav leaders were essentially all involved atrocities of similar levels against each other - but only Milosovic was painted as Hitler whilst ethnic cleansing happened under the eye of Nato troops.
That's his entire point essentially.
If this isn't downplaying the serbian side idk what is.
I've met Serbians today who use genocidal rhetoric ('infestation', 'sub-human', etc.) to talk about Albanians. To pretend like that sentiment doesn't exist because it's propagandaized as the only genocidal impulse there during the time is asinine.
find one fucking quote, cause I can't
better to just watch this, which is infinitely more nuanced than Parenti's shitty essay
Prior to the Yugoslav war the US told everyone that 200,000 people had been killed. Heres a little job for you bud...20 years have passed since the US claimed Serbs killed 200,000 people. Show me where thats true
There was no such thing. It was a lie to go to war and murder 140,000 people and turn Serbia into the cancer capital of Europe.
Then read his book To Kill A Nation where he explicitly says the war was more like a limited insurgency with all sides committing atrocities
Already seen it. Im surprised you dont think its "downplaying the serbian side" by...telling the truth