Yeah...I agree that western civilization is not all bad but this author misunderstands many things. He states that Columbus did not refer to natives aYeah...I agree that western civilization is not all bad but this author misunderstands many things. He states that Columbus did not refer to natives as slaves but as imperial subjects...and somehow that is supposedly better. Not sure how because it was 1. Forced upon them 2. It really meant they were defacto second class citizens at best. ...more
How can you have your cake and eat it too? Only according to western myth!
How can Bosnian Muslims hold both claims that they are allegedly both the bHow can you have your cake and eat it too? Only according to western myth!
How can Bosnian Muslims hold both claims that they are allegedly both the biggest victims of the country's history and the most prevalent demographic at the same time?
Answer: Only according to the magic trick known as western propaganda!
What is most curious is that Serbian Orthodox have been the most prevalent demographic of Bosnia and Herzegovina for centuries. Serbs have been the most dominant group until very recently in the 20th century when they were repeatedly destroyed by western powers and curiously curated as the ultimate boogeyman--identical to the one which hides under your bed. That is the power of the media--the business of obscuration for the powers that be. What lies behind obscuration? Control, plunder, money and power, convenience, accolades-- in short worldly desires.
This book follows the well trodden path of western narrative rather than rigorous scholarly analysis or alternatively one's soul which seek out the truth at any and all cost to one's ego....more
This book is key to every socialist's understanding of not only fighting fascism but understanding fascism and understanding where communism or more aThis book is key to every socialist's understanding of not only fighting fascism but understanding fascism and understanding where communism or more aptly stalinism went wrong. It's importance of addressing key developments and figures, in our age of disinformation, cannot be overstated....more
I have only read, what I presume is a summary of this book in her piece published on an internet forum. It's pretty bad. It falls in line with westernI have only read, what I presume is a summary of this book in her piece published on an internet forum. It's pretty bad. It falls in line with western narratives, but it does not square with reality. The author makes a rather ludicrouse claim that Serbia is a fascist state-- this is actually a reversal of historical events. Serbs were never big supporters of fascism-- in fact if she read other well known authors like Batinic etc, they will tell you that Serbs by and large were antifascist or pro-royalist. What on earth is Serbian fascism? Nedic's unpopular stooge rule? In fact, no where in Europe was there greater resistance to fascism than Serbia. Just let that sink in. This is why Hitler was enraged when Serbia unlike the rest of Europe did not fall in line with his tyranical belligerence and brutally bombed Belgrade. Indeed, other historians have rightly commented that such bold acts of definace were unseen elsewhere to such a high magnitude with Ristanovic adding that 100 000 people in Belgrade alone protested the royalist's decision to align with the axis (of evil.) (In all fairness, these protesters were by and large pro-status quo and anti-foreign occupation more than anything.) Nonetheless, Serbs were the largest ethno-religious demographic of the Yugoslav Partisans particularly in Croatia (which again came as a result more so than anything from the Croatian Ustashe actions against them.)
In regards to the 1990s, she unconvincingly states: "The break, however, was nowhere so radical as in Serbia, not even in Croatia, despite the new Croatian ruling party’s ambiguous attitude to the Ustasha pro-Nazi quisling state of World War II and despite the Croatian assault on Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1993-4." Croatia's overt rehabilitation and glorification of Ustashism was anything but ambiguous-- it was extremely pronounced and duly commented on by Mirkovic and many others. Why the twisting of reality?
So please riddle me how Serbia is fascist? Serbs have never roundly accepted fascism- not ever. More than any other country (except for of course the Soviet Union) was fascism more challenged than it was by Serbs...and by Serbia-- this can be supported with copious facts which I have only partly demonstrated here.
This narrative falls in line with western narratives that Serbs are simultaneous paradoxical ultimate boogeymen--fascists/communists-- this concept is deftly explained by Subotic. None of this excuses Serb actions but rather highlights the author's disturbing parroting of western (american) narratives which was crucial for laying the grounds for NATO's brutal bombing on the country which killed thousands of civilians. Indeed, American imperialism is by many margins the most oppressive force on the planet. To circle back, one can rather easily make the argument that no country is more anti-fascist than Serbia....more
First off the bat, Franco (hopefully of no relation to the fascist dictator) writes far too kindly about the Vatican (and America for that matter.) ThFirst off the bat, Franco (hopefully of no relation to the fascist dictator) writes far too kindly about the Vatican (and America for that matter.) The first page of the introduction is riddled with errors ie. "The Vatican has its roots in western culture"-- it is actually the other way round. And "Islamic fundamentalism is the main threat to the west." Nope- not by a long shot, the fundamental threat to the west is socialism/communism. The following passage is extremely problematic: "This [America] was not some exotic country where Catholicism could be introduced introduced virtually unopposed from the ground up." Yikes. Horrible revisionist comment. There was never a place on earth where Christianity was accepted in such a fashion- rather it was spread through fire and sword. Here's another horrible passage: "Fascism and Marxism were both enemies of religion..." Again, this is not true. Many fascist regimes were extremely religious. There is still good information to be found but a solid background in the topic is needed to parse through the bs....more
The author provides a refreshing interpretation of the Balkans- it's antithetical to Kalpan's horrendous "Balkan Ghosts." The author provides a refreshing interpretation of the Balkans- it's antithetical to Kalpan's horrendous "Balkan Ghosts." ...more
I don't know where to write this critique but in a chapter on the Nazi Empire by this author I found some stunning manipulation of information- not a I don't know where to write this critique but in a chapter on the Nazi Empire by this author I found some stunning manipulation of information- not a single word of the NDH (Greater Croatia) a technical puppet state of the Nazi Empire, and the extremely brutal genocide the Croatians Ustasha committed against hundreds of thousands, yet the author felt compelled to bring up Slobodan Milosevic by falsely attributing the term ethnic cleansing to him. Paul Mojzes has stated that the term was actually created in the early 1800s by a Serb poet named Vuk Kazaradic. The term was later employed by the American ruling class in the 1990s to describe one particular case, strictly Serb atrocities, as opposed to Croat atrocities or any others. In other words the term was entirely employed for political reasonings- to promote the interests of America. The promotion of western geopolitics and its narratives, the complete omission of very relevant topics and the inclusion of lesser relevant ones, is certainly evident in Browning's work. The politicization of genocide is reprehensible....more