Polyparty-ism - Search for Common Ground

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way our cautious, some would say
necessary, optimism looked, a little
more than ten years ago, from the
other side of the things, at the
beginning.
If this were a diary entry or a
more ambitious chronology
(accompanied by commentary),
maybe the reconstruction would
have been more detailed. Even if it
is about fast-paced times, still the
judgment of history will have plenty
of verdicts to make. We are left
with identifying some places where
we can quite openly conclude that
we are walking around in circles or
in a Nietzschean way, which is one
and the same, we will conclude that
things are moving within the syntagma
of "eternal return to the
same!"
At the beginning of the 1920s, a
smart and very conservative
Spanish man, who had a very
strange and long name, said that
when worlds collapse, when great
value systems fall apart, then the
crowd comes to the world's stage,
or as he said: "the masses' uprising
follows," with all that this uprising
assumes: lack of any value system,
lack of any kind of social, psychological,
moral boundaries, lawlessness
in society is an everyday certainty,
because the old laws are no
longer applicable and there are no
new laws, or they are created by
those who do not want to know
about law and order, since their
basic principle is the rule of chaos!
During the days when Macedonia
was destined to become independent,
the independence, the material from
which this state was supposed to be
made, was very modest. As we
already stated, during a period of less
than two years we were supposed to
forget dreams that He would do
something for the benefit of everybody,
He would settle things with all
those who had "messed up" and
miraculously so-like winning a lottery
jackpot without buying the ticket,
or the resurrection of Josip Broz from
his grave-and that He would lead
Yugoslavia through the Scylla and
Charybdis of history, which is always
tailored by others.
A handful of people felt that a
more systematic, more courageous
action was required, to disable all
possible unreal ambitions, to disable
the deliberate metastases of the society
designed to infect it permanently
(read: to create permanent centres
of instability). They soon got tired.
They were eliminated in the internal
political manoeuvring, or more precisely
intrigues, and out of the lot
that used to be honest, service-oriented,
it was clear that those remaining
live in a mixture of national,
state-building, humanistic, religious,
liberal ambitions and desires.
Yes, quite so: with mixed schedules
and priorities, with confusion, out of
which a state-building capacity
could hardly be foreseen or created.
If we take into consideration the
continual interference of our neighbours,
it even becomes unreal that
today, at the end of the year 2000, in
Macedonia we still write things, like
this article, which still bears a certain
optimism towards state-building.
Although from my perspective
this brief history can be called a
history of missed chances and
opportunities, it can be said that
Macedonia is still on this side of
the line that Churchill drew on the
famous paper napkin. When we
look more deeply at those who
lead, or who would like to lead, this
country, desperation becomes our
primary feeling. Still, in Macedonia
the outcomes, as is well known, are
quantified a bit differently. Also the
auditors are others, with less trembling
hands, younger than
Churchill.
Yalta is dead, but I think I here
someone shouting: Long live the
new Yalta. And this is not such a
bad cry after all.
(The author is a columnist )
The international
players should understand
that in addition
to their unambiguous
support for global
reforms, they must
also promote intolerance
for the practices
of election fraud and
violence in politics
Macedonia - EU - the region
European ambiguities
are multiplying
in the candidate countries
Ljubomir D. Frchkoski
Two key political actions have created
the new political map of
Macedonia in the region. First is the
regime change in Belgrade, which
"unplugged" the communication in the
north of the country so that the country
now satisfies the true meaning of a
crossroads. Second is entering into the
agreement for association and stabilization
with the European Union by which
Macedonia gained the "privileged"
position as the first country in the unfor-
Ten years of pluralism, December 2000