[Marxism] A clarification of my view of Kosova independence andKosova "independence"

[Mehmet Cagatay]

Adam Berg wrote:

"The 98% of the Albanians that voted for independence in 1991? 

A rather inventive and ingenious definition of "ruling elites".

...

Sorry for being not intentive enough to acknowledge the universal demand
for independence with a sleight of an abstraction.

... 

"If now in considering the course of history we detach the ideas of the
ruling class from the ruling class itself and attribute to them an
independent existence, if we confine ourselves to saying that these or
those ideas were dominant at a given time, without bothering ourselves
about the conditions of production and the producers of these ideas, if we
thus ignore the individuals and world conditions which are the source of
the ideas, we can say, for instance, that during the time that the
aristocracy was dominant, the concepts honour, loyalty, etc. were
dominant, during the dominance of the bourgeoisie the concepts freedom,
equality, etc. The ruling class itself on the whole imagines this to be
so. This conception of history, which is common to all historians,
particularly since the eighteenth century, will necessarily come up
against the phenomenon that increasingly abstract ideas hold sway, i.e.
ideas which increasingly take on the form of universality."

 http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01b.htm

Mehmet Çagatay
http://weblogmca.blogspot.com/


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