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 going to listen to this because I’m quite interested in what there is to avoid in the LaRouche movement besides personality cults and going off the deep end
update: LMAO GLOBE-SPANNING LAND BRIDGE
Brett is awesome. I’d love to hear him and Christman talk spirituality or maybe do an inebriated past episode.
LaRouche would drop the Luxemburgism (while still using her theories of crisis to the end) and focus on his pro-industrial corporatism, members of his organization becoming “patriots” instead of “comrades.”
Hm I feel like I’ve seen other “leftist” groups adopting this same label today to push a pro industrial capitalist line of thinking :thinking-about-it:
“the socialist left” is still a handy term in Europe as many neoliberal socdem centre left parties and organisations (due to quirks of history) are called socialists or the left
