berman@ihuxm.UUCP (01/25/84)
To answer the query about who "Lyndon LaRouche" is:
LaRouche has been at it for some time. In the early 60's he
was active in left-wing splinter groups (the purist kind that
denounce most vigorously other groups on the left).
In the late 60's he formed a split-off group from SDS (Students for
a Democratic Society) called the Labor Committee, the National
Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC), and numerous other names.
Since then, under the banners of a large number of organizations
(among them: US Labor Party, Fusion Energy Foundation, National
Democratic Policy Committee), he and his followers have abandoned
any pretense of left-wing sentiments and have adopted political
positions of the far right. You see these chaps at the airports
with provacative placards and bumper stickers (e.g. "Ted Kennedy
killed more people than Nuclear Power Plants" "Nuclear Power
Plants are built better than Jane Fonda", collecting funds and subscriptions).
Over the years his groups has concentrated on a variety of
themes in its propaganda. Among these are:
1) A Rockefeller-Kissinger Conspiracy Theory
2) Vigorous support for laser weapons, space weapons, etc.
3) Vigorous support for Nuclear Power
4) Unquestioning support for all "High Tech"
5) A Zionist Drug Conspiracy (anti-Zionism is not necessarily
anti-Semitism, but LaRouches' certainly is.)
6) Vigorous attacks against Environmentalists.
Their style is to stress the provocative, and to bait.
The group has significant financial resources, with branches
in Latin America, and West Europe. Because of their shady finances
and vigorous baiting of liberal, environmental and left groups, there have been charges
of CIA funding.
In recent years, LaRouches people have entered numerous
electoral campaigns, from US Presidency (often in Democratic Party
Primaries) to local school boards (this latter often on an anti-drug
platform).
A fine expose of them was published a few years back, entitled
"NCLC: Brownshirts of the 70's" I will dig up the info on where
to get it if requested.
They publish a huge number of publications, among them:
New Solidarity, Fusion Energy and others. They seem to concentrate
their subscription efforts at conservative, well-heeled businessmen,
to whom they charge very high subscription rates.
They have often engaged in efforts to "expose" and denounce
people with left-wing, environemental or civil libertarian sympathies.
LaRouche himself has a background in computers.
They are certainly a group to be aware of. In a crisis
situation (e.g. were an economic depression of the 1930's kind
to come again), they have the potential for becoming a genuine
mass fascist organization, in the classical sense of the word "fascist."
Hope this has been useful,
Andy Berman