– Comrade Enver Hoxha, May 10, 1980 –
The inevitable disappearance, orchestrated with such mastery and splendour, of the monarch Tito has concluded. Ironically, with the anthem of the Internationale. While Tito’s grave stone was laid, the Titoites did not hesitate to lie and engage in demagogy. This bourgeoisie is low, cunning and shameless.
We, the Albanian communists, fought Tito mercilessly while he was alive, and we will continue our fight against Titoism, one of the variants of modern revisionism, until its end.
As the apostles left behind by Tito said in their masses, when they sang the De profundis to their “leader,” the orientation of Yugoslav politics is: 1) “brotherhood and unity,” 2) “self-administration,” 3) “non-alignment.” So, “father, son and the holy spirit.” Amen!
Brotherhood and unity is the product of Clemenceau in the Treaty of Versailles; thus, a state with plundered treasures above and below, sewn together with imperialist machinery, on which they placed a monarchy and a king who oppressed different peoples and followed the policy of the French master. Paris put this puppet king on the throne and Marseille killed him before he had time to sing the Marseillaise.
This formula “brotherhood and unity” from the monarchy transformed into a federative republic after World War II. It was also called socialist, to deceive the masses and peoples who fought for their liberation and unity to the point of secession. But who allowed the peoples of Yugoslavia to self-determine their fate even to the point of secession? Instead of self-determination, they were given self-administration.
Self-administration was a pseudo-Marxist mask hiding the capitalist system that was being built, to transform the Karadjordjević monarchy into a new form. The form changed, the master changed. Karadjordjević had a main master and did not hide it, France. The Titoites had another main master: the USA, but also several other capitalist countries, and liked to present himself as “equal among equals.” Tito presented himself as “uninvolved” because that’s what he liked, and he liked it that way for his masters.
“Non-alignment” is the opposite of alignment. Tito wanted to deceive the people with a small “non” and to present himself as “independent” when the noose was around his neck and when he put the noose around the necks of the peoples of Yugoslavia. But Tito lived as a king with the proverb “after me, the flood.”
Today, world capitalism asks the question: “What will happen after Tito?” We, the Albanian communists, say that we predicted what will happen “after Tito” long before “after Tito.” We are dialecticians. “The sun appears when it rises,” our people say, and we saw and fought against Titoism from its birth until it ended in betrayal, dishonesty, intrigues, murder, genocide and lies — all in the service of world capitalism with the Americans at the forefront. It ended in dirty political acrobatics that provided means for the pleasures and amusements of King Tito and his courtesans, while bringing division, eclecticism and political and economic misery to the peoples of Yugoslavia.
“The funeral pomp” of the king has its tail back, like a scorpion. Kings and presidents of the bourgeoisie and revisionism pay for this style of luxury funeral. “Tito’s life was closed beautifully” in the grave, and world capitalism “sowed the wind, and shall reap the storm.” Now it asks the question: “What will it be like after Tito?” Everything will be destroyed because it was already destroyed; everything will go bankrupt because it was already bankrupt; everything will be unmasked because it was a bluff, the castle was built on sand.
(Kosova is Albania, The November 8th Publishing House, pp. 223-225)
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