[lbo-talk] Street-fighting Days

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 5/22/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> >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?

The only fact about the Ahmadinejad administration in the WSWS
articles is that Ahmadinejad did make anti-Semitic remarks, probably
motivated by what I've been calling "Holocaust envy."  I've criticized
them myself here (as well as in the real world outside cyberspace).

Other than that, though, what WSWS presents is its usual verbiage
filled with formulas that WSWS applies to just about all governments
and political parties, from Bush to Chavez, the Democratic Party to
Lutte Ouvriere.  One thing I can count on the Socialist Equality Party
is that it's against everything except itself.

I've presented such facts as available to me in the English language
about the social and economic policy of the Ahmadinejad
administration:
<http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20051205/026706.html>
<http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20060508/037925.html>.

So have Colin, about fashion and import substitution, and Dwayne, who
posted about Iranian opinions about nuclear research.

You haven't commented on any of the facts others and I have presented
in the aforementioned posts.  If you have a reason to believe that
they are incorrect, let me hear it.

Otherwise, you can draw your own conclusion by comparing them with
what WSWS or anyone else you care to listen to says.

-- 
Yoshie
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