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On 7 February 2010, in Belgrade, Academician Mihajlo Marković, Professor of the University in Belgrade, Serbian scientist and an internationally renown philosopher, passed away in his 87th year. He has been closely cooperating with other philosophers of the independent leftist provenience from other former Yugoslav Republics. He was one of the founders of the dissident Korčula Summer School, and an editor of the “Praxis” Magazine.

He authored several textbooks of philosophy, books, and memoirs. He published several hundred articles and analyses in national and foreign magazines and publications.

In addition to his professorship and tenure of a Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University in Belgrade, he used to hold lectures at the universities in the USA, Germany, Belgium, Russia, France, and many other countries.

He used to work together with many eminent philosophers and scientists, including with Jean-Paul Sartre, Bertrand Russell, Noam Chomsky, Michel Chossudowski, and many more.

Mihajlo Marković was a persistent champion of the socialist thought and idea. He was a founder and among the first Deputy Presidents of the Socialist Party of Serbia. He was the author of the Program of the Socialist Party of Serbia.

He was a sharp critic of deformations in the government and political parties, and of conformism within the intellectual elite.

He was among the founders of an association of intellectuals called the Belgrade Forum for a World of Equals (in 2000), Member of its Steering Board, and President of the Program Council of the Belgrade Forum.

He was the author of papers published in more than 30 books comprising groups of authors from the Belgrade Forum, such as “National and State Priorities”, “Intellectuals and the Social reality”, “The Left in Serbia and the World”, “The Constitution of Serbia”, “Kosovo and Metohija – What Next”, and many more.

Mihajlo Marković was among the first to join the National Liberation Anti-Fascist War of 1941-1945 and holder of several wartime and peace decorations and medals. He has been publicly opposing the attempts of rewriting the history of the Anti-Fascist struggle and the history of the World War II.

He advocated the concept of human rights that embrace social, economic, political and civil rights, including the right to free education and free medical treatment.

He held NATO, USA and the West responsible for encouraging Albanian separatism and KLA terrorism in Kosovo and Metohija. He maintained that attempts at revising the Dayton-Paris Peace Agreement are aimed to deprive Republica Srpska of its constitutional rights, if not, abolish it all together, as the onlu guarantor for survival of Serbs as nation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Mihajlo Markovic was a signatory of the Initiative, supported by 200 intellectuals, on holding referendum on the issue of Serbia’s membership in NATO.

Murat Akad (Peace Association of Turkey) :

Dear Mr. Jovanovic,

I am deeply sorry to hear that Mr. Markovic has passed away. It is obviously a great loss for the all former Yugoslav people as well as the Belgrade Forum for a World of Equals.

In behalf of the Peace Association of Turkey and myself, I pass my condolences to you and the Serbian comrades, who, I am sure, will continue his ideas.

Regards

Профессор Вольфганг Рихтер

(Исполняющий обязанности члена Президиума Европейского Форума мира  epf
Председатель Общества защиты прав граждан и достоинства человека  GBM e.V.)

Дорогой Цика Йованович,

с глубоким сожалением узнали мы в Европейском Форуме мира и на заседании руководства Общества  защиты прав граждан и достоинства человека

(GBM e. V.) о смерти профессора Михайло Марковича. У меня сохранились о нём только самые лучшие воспоминания и,  как философ, я всю мою жизнь  разделял и восхищался его антифашистской позицией. Его боевой антифашизм остался несломленным до настоящего времени, что также достоверно доказано его активным участием в борьбе против войны НАТО против Югославии и  его свидетельским участием в процессе против Милосевича. Его членство в Белградском Форуме и Обществе Равных отражало его приверженность борьбе за  мир и гуманность. Его импульсивная деятельность  за гуманистический социализм  обладают глубоко значимым разъяснительным и революционизированным значением и силой, выходящими  за пределы, так называемого, реального социализма.

С глубоким прискорбием

Analysis of the MUTSINZI Report - by Luc Marchal & The Collective for the Truth
http://cirqueminime.blogcollective.com/blog/_archives/2010/2/8/4449941.html

Col. Marchal

This one’s for Prof. Mihailo Markovic:

Is knowing the Truth important? Or is it just prideful and dangerous—maybe too dangerous ?

Is it important to cleave to the Reality Principle--in History as in Science? Adorno said, “Reality provides too many legitimate reasons for fleeing it to be met by the indignation of an ideology sworn to harmony.” (Aesthetic Theory, TW Adorno, ed. Robert Hullot-Kentor)

In our world of an ever-more administered Reality, it is difficult for crusaders who would interrogate the consensus version of events, challenge la pensée unique and seek to apply honesty and decency as correctives to the collective false consciousness, to get traction. And trying to carry out intellectual search and destroy missions against the Historical lies and moral manipulations of a thoroughly unregenerate waste culture, where sentimentality is the general anesthetic that renders painless the theft of all the Developed World’s critical organs, only gets one labeled a Truther, or a Revisionist, or a Holocaust (genocide) Denier—and your contributions are no longer required.

Those with the courage to wage this kind of struggle for Truth and Justice are rare. We just lost such a scholar/warrior in the Serb Historian Mihailo Markovic. I met him only once, in Belgrade in 2003, and we had an all too brief discussion of the old 20th Century for my daughter Yana’s documentary camera. We disagreed sometimes, but his enormous erudition and natural wisdom was always expressed with kindness and never became arrogance. He looked a little like Bob Hope (one of my bites noires), and, having taught at Chico State at one time, was kind of a homeboy to me. Now that he’s gone I realize what a real privilege it was to spend even a little time talking with him.

Colonel Luc Marchal is another courageous warrior/scholar. His work on the Rwandan drama of 1994, some of which can be found right here on this blog, is the sort of clear, detailed, boots on the ground sort of analysis that is so deadly to the sentimentalists who feed on the misery of the very victims they pretend to protect and serve. These jackals (that the jackals would despise) have come out in packs to bay at the latest slapdash attempt to make an obvious lie (the heroic innocence of the current RPF regime in Kigali in the destruction of the Rwandan people and their revolutionary society) a little less obvious, a little more ambiguous, though no less a lie: The Mutsinzi Report. And if people like Col. Marchal didn’t step up to set the record straight, Rwanda would just quietly take its place in the long line of victims of Anglo-Saxon rape, pillage and military occupation.

But Col. Marchal has the details—a lot of details—and his case against The Mutsinzi Report is damn near ironclad. Look, it takes a pretty large set to go up against the Kagame junta these days—there are far too few here in France (Dr. Kouchner still has to sit down to pee), so our Belgian camarade is most welcome.

And I think Prof. Markovic would approve. –mc]