Donald Parkinson from Cosmonaut Magazine joins Breht to talk about the life, political theory, and legacy of Lyndon LaRouche. In our own time we see LaRouche-type deviations manifesting on the so-called socialist left, and by studying LaRouche and his movement, we can better comprehend - and thus combat - its modern day iterations, while avoiding similar errors.
Check out Donald’s article in Cosmonaut on LaRouche here: https://cosmonautmag.com/2019/03/larouche-a-warning-for-us-all/
related “MAGA communist” episode here https://hexbear.net/post/228434
I’m enjoying it so far, but it’s curious to pull the “some people say this guy is a fascist, that he’s doing Mussolini-style, Hitler-style fascism.” Don’t equivocate and do the trump move of “people have said this,” be up front! Tell me if this dude’s a fascist!
I’m sure he’ll be more explicit later in the episode, but this just rubbed me the wrong way
Yes actually! There’s a deep racist current in the NCLC, larouche’s org, they formed gangs of brawlers to disrupt CPUSA meetings, there was ideological talk about unifying industrial and financial capital(that I need to relisten to), they ally with far right currents including the Reagan Administration, there’s plenty of evidence for calling them fascist. I guess I was just knee jerk with the turn of phrase
I think they were just implying in the intro that LaRouchites have been a subject of critique for a long time (as in, by others who preceded the pod hosts)
