Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 00:08:38 +0000
Subject: Re: M-G: News from Albania


>Vladimir wrote:

> Here is some latest news from Albania that I have found on the net.
> Dave has recently argued that no special channels of communication
> were needed for revolutionary organization in Albania (and elsewhere?)
> since we already have news coming from there via Internet. The apalling
> naivete of this view does not need comments. The first dispatch
> from Tirana below is a good example of the ideology of that social group
> in Albania who has a virtual monopoly (thanks to Soros) on e-mail access.
> 
> Vladimir
> 
> 
Thanks for the very interesting information Vladimir,  though it 
doesnt tell us much new and is not evidence of all the currents 
or even the dominant current in the uprising.  But please get your 
facts right when claiming above that I "argued that no special 
channels of communication were needed for revolutionary organisation 
in Albania". Here is what I wrote concerning your abstract 
suggestion of the need for more  channels of communication.

> Your [Vladimir's] list says says channels of communication with the outside world.
> Who will you provide this equipment to so that they can communicate
> what to the `outside' world. Already the internet and maybe other
> channels are open. What is the purpose of further channels?

I am not saying that more channels are not needed I am asking you, 
for whom and for why. Whom would you communicate with and what would 
you say?  This is an invitation to you to say specifically what channels and 
for what purpose.  You have not done so, nor have you reply about what
 organisational forms [soviets?] propaganda [workers militia?] or leaflets 
[down with Berisha?] you would propose.

Dave.




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