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Article 419 (1 more) in ba.politics:
From: cramer@optilink.UUCP
Newsgroups: ba.politics,ca.politics
Subject: Re: LaRouche (Was: Prop 69 - AIDS)
Summary: LaRouche more of a left-wingers
Message-ID: <203@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 88 21:16:00 GMT
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In article <26466@pyramid.pyramid.com>, csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekun
st) writes:
> In article <4298@zodiac.UUCP> cbunjiov@ads.com (Charleen Bunjiovianna) writes:
> >I really don't know anything about Lyndon LaRouche other than that Prop. 69
> >is sponsored by his followers.
> >
> >I just want to know: Why are you so down on LaRouche?
>
> Here's a capsule summary of LaRouche's organization:
>
> Policitically the group is far right wing, although it aligns itself with the
> Democratic Party. (The LaRouche candidates almost always run on the Democratic
Actually, LaRouche is a good example of why "left" and "right" sometimes
lose what little meaning they have. LaRouche's group used to be called
the U.S. Labor Party, and were definitely a part of the New Left in New
York in the early 1970s, engaging in violent confrontation with other
New Left groups, principally to make sure that when the Marxist revolution
happened, they would be in control. A friend of mine who was part of the
New Left in New York at the time has an amusing tale of a friend (former
Wobbly and lumberjack -- sized as the stereotype goes) grabbing a
couple LaRouchies who had entered a meeting with pipes, and throwing
them against a nearby wall. (Trotskyite intellectuals, with too much
time spent reading, and not enough time in physical culture).
LaRouche's concern about Soviet activities may be in part a function of
his funding. I have it on good authority from a friend (no longer employed
by CIA) that the CIA found plausible evidence that LaRouche's funding
(at least at one time) came from the Red Chinese -- which would certainly
explain his emphasis on the Soviet Union's aggressiveness, and his interest
in maintaining American military strength.
Listen carefully to the LaRouchies -- their ideology is a variant of
traditional populism in much the same way that the Nazis were a variant
of traditional socialism.
Clayton E. Cramer
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