I am not sure what Kevin Drum is getting at in this post:
On Saturday Glenn Reynolds took issue with people who claim that it’s “McCarthyism” to criticize anti-war protesters for attending rallies organized by A.N.S.W.E.R.:
It’s not McCarthyism to call people who are communists, communists. Communists, as devoted followers of murderous totalitarianism, deserve to be called to account every bit as much as their Nazi colleagues. And in the 21st century, they can hardly pretend to be ignorant of their ideology’s true nature.
He’s right. But it is McCarthyism to tar people as “communist sympathizers” because they associate
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Glenn (and many others) keep called ANSWER a “front” for the WWP. All I want to know is what that’s based on.
I’ve found one article (Corn’s) that says some of ANSWER’s leaders also belong to the WWP, but that’s it. Is there any more to this? It’s one thing to say they’re a radical socialist group, it’s another to say that they are actively pro-Saddam.
I just want to know the straight dope about this group, and I can’t find it anywhere.