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Entry: Thanks to the Neocons Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/thanks_to_the_neocons#31 Post contents: No, I would say there are several U.S. senators who are now the leading voices against the war. Even on the radical left, the problems with ANSWER are well understood by the serious intellectuals such as Chomsky, etc. ANSWER did play an important role in setting up the initial antiwar demonstrations. Most people participating in ANSWER, and certainly the vast majority of those who went to the demonstrations, had no idea of the true politics or nature of the small group of people who set up ANSWER. This group is a small Stalinist organization called the Worker's World Party. These small communist organizations are expert at infiltrating larger movements, concealing their politics, and taking lead roles in organizing. They are parasitic in ways that were learned by militant Communist movements earlier in the century. The occasional ability of tiny groups like the Workers World Party to worm their way into organizing positions is sued by the right as a propaganda technique to discredit all thought that is at all left of center, or even liberal. . This is like trying to use David Duke to smear Pat Buchanan. If you want a good perspective on the role of ANSWER written by actual non-crazy but radical left wing intellectuals, try this discussion of anti-war organizing on Z-NET. Note this antiwar piece was written in 2002. Item #8 deals with ANSWER and other groups. Ask yourself whether you generally agree with the piece. If you do, you have something in common with the radical left -- Z-NET is about as radical as it gets before you get into these tiny groups of kooks, who really are the left-wing equivalent of neo nazis. http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=2527 Sent at: 2008 09 06