by Dreams End » Sat Sep 24, 2005 12:19 pm
Hi there, folks.<br><br>Well, there is an awful lot of reading to do on Larouche. I'm doing just that. The problem I'm having is that the best info so far is from a guy named Dennis King. Unfortunately, King has worked with Chip Berlet...and I think that would call into question his materials (He also seems to have political viewpoints in general that I would disagree with.) He, however, has a book on Larouche and a very large collection of information on both Larouche and Fred Newman of the New Alliance Party. Much of his info comes from source documents, including memos leaked out of the Larouche organization. Unfortunately, he doesn't have scans of the originals available, so I can't confirm that he didn't simply make it all up. Given the sheer volume and internal consistency of this material, I think this highly unlikely.<br><br>I'm going to simply start with these few quotes from early Larouche. These are reprinted at the Center for Media and Democracy. I'm not REAL familiar with them, so if you have concerns about them as a source, let me know.<br><br>Here's some quotes from old Larouche publications. I don't know how to get ahold of the original publications, but maybe some of you have access.<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lyndon_LaRouche#LaRouche.2C_Racism.2C_and_Antisemitism">www.sourcewatch.org/index...tisemitism</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Racism<br><br> "Can we imagine anything more viciously sadistic than the Black Ghetto mother?"<br><br> Internal memo - Lyndon H. LaRouche, NCLC 1973. <br><br> "Jazz was foisted on black Americans by the same oligarchy which had run the U.S. slave trade, with the help of the classically trained but immoral George Gershwin and the Paris-New York circuit of drug-taking avant-garde artists."<br><br> "The Racist Roots of Jazz", Back Cover, The Campaigner, September-October 1980 <br><br> "The paranoid, so approximating the lower animal species, is relatively lacking in such sense of human identity and is, to a corresponding degree, incapable of sustaining a stable guiding moral structure for his behavior. <br><br> "The paranoid state is characteristic of the “village commune’,’ culture. Objectively, the model “oriental village commune” is characterized by the fixing of the mode of production with a rigidity paralleling the behavioral stagnation of lower animal life. Worse, the culture evolved in reconciling the victims of such a dead-end culture to that animal-like state.... <br><br> All the cognitive and related cultural achievements of capitalist development in music, philosophy, and so forth, are symptomatically denounced as “Western” in favor of the philosophical and cultural ideological relics of pre-1949 China’s long barbarian past. Out of this hideous muck comes first a reactionary, actually counterrevolutionary rejection of the working class...."<br><br> The Campaigner, (Journal of the National Caucus of Labor Committees), Vol. 8, No. 8, August 1975, pp. 5-40. <br><br>[edit]<br>Antisemitism<br><br> "Judaism is the religion of a caste of subjects of Christianity, entirely molded by ingenious rabbis to fit into the ideological and secular life of Christianity. In short, a selfsustaining Judaism never existed and never could exist. As for Jewish culture otherwise, it is merely the residue left to the Jewish home after everything saleable has been marketed to the Goyim."<br><br> "The Case of Ludwig Feuerbach", Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., (under pen name L. Marcus), The Campaigner, December 1973 <br><br>"America must be cleansed for its righteous war by the immediate elimination of the Nazi Jewish Lobby and other British agents from the councils of government, industry, and labor."<br><br> "A War-winning Strategy", Editorial, New Solidarity, March 1978 <br><br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>This one site alone has a lot to digest, as does Dennis King's site at:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://dennisking.org/">dennisking.org/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>I would invite you too look around his site, as I am, but since I'm the one who revealed his Berlet link, please don't accuse me of being part of that little nexus...whatever the truth about them may be. I'm looking for material there that is from other sources or is something I can confirm. <br><br>He also has a horrible editorial on the Village Voice on this site, condemning them for attacking America by daring to suggest that 9/11 might have been a result of US policy, thereby weakening America's "resolve to fight." So, full disclosure...his politics suck. I'm looking for better sources but he has a lot of material he's collected.<br><br>There's also a LOT at this site on Fred Newman, who operates in a fashion so similar to Larouche that I simply have to think they work for the same folks. If folks get interested in Newman, we should start another thread about him and his activities. In some ways he's more dangerous as he has a series of "mental health clinics" across the country that naturally prescribe involvement with their politics as part of their therapy.<br><br>One thing I can guarantee is that this is the very tip of a very large iceberg. <br><br>In more recent times, Larouche's public pronouncements have been couched in anti-fascist terms and with his decrying "anti-semtism" itself. In time it will become clear, however, that this is just the latest manifestation of the chameleon. Meanwhile, I think the above quotes get at his real ideology. <br><br>All for now. <p></p><i></i>