The War in Bosnia and the Marxist Method
Introductory Note: The document linked on this page consists of material that was written in 1996-1997, and published in pamphlet form in May 1997 by HWRS’s predecessor organization, Workers’ Voice. We are republishing it on our website because it illustrates our method in regard to bourgeois nationalism, capitalist restoration, and imperialist intervention in nationalist wars.
The original pamphlet was 118 pages long. For faster loading, we have broken it into five separate parts, each of which is a PDF file that will open in a new window. The contents of each part are listed after the link to the PDF file. Page numbers refer to pages in the individual PDF file, not the page numbering of the original pamphlet.
Click here to view part 1 in a new window: Bosnia Pamphlet, Part 1
Contents: Preface (p. 3); Introduction (p. 3); A Summary of Our Method and Positions (p. 5)
Click here to view part 2 in a new window: Bosnia Pamphlet, Part 2
Contents: Could the Muslims in Bosnia Have the Right to Self-Determination (p. 1); Serbia and Imperialism: Why They Could Not Work Together (p. 4); Why the Conception That Bosnia Was a ‘Democratic, Multiethnic’ Country Contradicted Basic Materialism (p. 7); The Question of Ethnic Cleansing (p. 11)
Click here to view part 3 in a new window: Bosnia Pamphlet, Part 3
Contents: Once Again on the Right to Self-Determination (p. 1); Why It Was Necessary to Defend the Serbs Without Flinching (p. 4); On the Marxist Method in the Last Part of the War (p. 10)
Click here to view part 4 in a new window: Bosnia Pamphlet, Part 4
Contents: Once Again on the War and Dialectics (p. 1); Once Again on Trotskyism and “Revolutionary Defeatism”in the Last Stage of the War (p. 6); Appendix A: Imperialism Imposes Yugoslav Re-Balkanization [reprinted from Workers’ Voice, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 1996] (p. 9)
Click here to view part 5 in a new window: Bosnia Pamphlet, Part 5
Contents: Appendix B: The Picture that Fooled the World [reprinted from Living Marxism, Issue 97, Feb. 1997] (p. 1)
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