Doug wrote:
> Elsewhere <http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,1766111,00.html>
> Tariq Ali writes:
> >... the
> >most likely constituency to be disappointed is Ahmadinejad's own:
> >the millions of young, working-class jobless, crammed into
> >overcrowded living conditions, in desperate need of a national
> >development policy that neither neoliberalism nor Islamist
> >voluntarism will provide....
>
> I think I'll stick with Chavez.
Chavez has done very well by redistributing oil scarcity rents to the Venezuelan people in ways that might help long-term independence and growth. Is there any evidence that Iran's government has done this kind of thing? -- Jim Devine / "These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people." -- Abraham Lincoln (attributed)