[MEG33]

Are you familiar with the World Workers Party and ANSWER International?

[lavrenti]

WWP's rise to prominance surprised me. Like many of these groups, they are more a muddled cult than they are a political organization.

One thing you have to understand about these groups is they usually formed around a handful of individuals thrown out of other, larger organizations, grasped a particular form of M-L communism and just became encounter groups for losers. However, several of these groups managed to get support from various sources. RCP had a couple of rich kids financing the operation, enough to start a Maoist International of sorts and an alliance with the Sendero looneys in Peru.

There were a handful of groups that associated themselves with the ideologies attached to certain countries. There were two, for instance, associated with Hoxha's Albania.

WWP of course, holds the distinction of getting support from who?

Look, even when I was a hard Trotskyist, I thought WWP were weirdos.

Now, they're dangerous weridos.

[lavrenti]

Though Lenni Brenner is not a person I want to quote, his description of the organization this man knew as "those &*%$@ Marcyites" are described here.

Considering Brenner's anti-Israeli stance, his opinion is rather interesting.

http://www.counterpunch.org/brenner02192003.html