King, Dennis. Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism. New York:
Doubleday, 1989. 415 pages.
LaRouche started as a sectarian leftist and self-styled intellectual
in the late 1960s. By 1973 cadres from his National Caucus of Labor
Committees launched "Operation Mop Up" and began beating up rival leftist
groups. Within several years the NCLC stepped over that thin line between
sectarian leftism and the right wing, and was cooperating with the KKK,
Liberty Lobby, and law enforcement officials. In the early Reagan years,
LaRouche's anti-Sovietism found expression through his lobbying on behalf
of Star Wars and his access to U.S. intelligence and other officials. His
publications such as Executive Intelligence Review are taken seriously by
journalists and investigators because of their demonstrated access to
occasional inside information. At the same time, LaRouche's people are
understandably regarded with a certain amount of healthy suspicion.
LaRouchian political theory is a mixture of Kant, anti-Semitism, and
paranoic tirades against everything from British empiricism to Oliver
North. It is something of a mystery how LaRouche funds his organization,
which is also active in Germany. He was convicted in 1988 of conspiracy,
mail fraud, and tax evasion (charges that grew out of his organization's
sleazy fund-raising practices), and is serving a 15-year sentence. One
suspects, however, that this clue provides a partial answer at best.
ISBN 0-385-23880-0
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