There are orthodox capitalist instruments for controlling inflation: raise interest rates, remove state interventions (such as duties on certain food imports), and let the market do its work (though orthodox capitalist policy over all can help guerrilla insurgency against the government grow: "India's Hidden War," 27 October 2006, <http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/ontv/unreported_world/india+indias+hidden+war/248548>).
Would Doug recommend them for Iran and Venezuela, which are pressured to implement them by their own capitalists as well as the ruling-class media worldwide?
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601091&sid=aty4vZIndCfQ&refer=india> India's Inflation Slows on Declining Prices for Food (Update2) By Ashok Bhattacharjee and Sam Nagarajan
June 29 (Bloomberg)
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India's central bank has raised benchmark rates nine times since October 2004 to damp consumer demand and may now rely on the delayed effect of raising borrowing costs to a five-year high to rein in inflation.
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To check prices of food grains, which have risen at almost twice the pace of manufactured product costs in the past year, the government removed the import duty on lentils in June 2006, and on wheat in September. -- Yoshie