>Doug, WSWS is also convinced of "the absolute political necessity of
>building a revolutionary party of the working class independent of and
>in opposition to the Chavez government" (at
><http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/mar2006/van2-m20.shtml>).
>
>As I said to Jerry, some political currents -- like the Socialist
>Equality Party, the Spartacists, etc. -- are too marginal for me to
>bother arguing against. It's a waste of time.
Yes and no. The WSWS and the Sparts always lose me when they go into their boilerplace prescriptions - but they usually have sharp analyses. In this case, the WSWS says that Ahmadinejad's political base is deeply reactionary and he's using populist (and anti-Semitic) rhetoric to build support for an odious agenda. I don't know if this is true, but do you know it's not?
Doug