[mobglob-discuss] Fwd: Re: Lyndon LaRouche, neo-fascism and Vancouver activism

[Macdonald Stainsby]

This reply to the firtst post I just received...I thought it quite 
useful here as well.
Macdonald

Forwarded From: lause at att.net


The media calls LaRouche a "populist" because most of 
the idiots use the term synomously with "popular." The 
point is taken, of course, but it's not often easy to 
tell what's up with a group from the outside.  

LaRouche's reordering of the National Caucus of Labor 
Committees (around 1970?) made it an ultimately right 
wing group...or even an agent of this or that quasi-
official neo-conservative Sun Belt funding group.  
What's frightening, of course, is that it was initially 
very difficult to distinguish this between the usual 
sectarian adoption of their hobby-horses. 

Even with the NCLC attacks on other radical 
organization, unless you were in New York or Chicago 
and saw them in action, you couldn't tell whether this 
was institutional or simply the kind of cultist 
behavior that certain local organizations on the Left 
engaged in during that period.  The Houston YAWF, for 
example, engaged in physical attacks on the SWP at the 
same time (which came on the heels of threats and 
attacks by the KKK), and was not on the same course as 
the NCLC.

On the other hand, such a misjudgement would have been 
very easy to make.  Personally, I think that the record 
of the Left shows many dangers from being too harsh in 
our judgements that this or that person or group has 
gone over to the other side.  

Solidarity!
Mark L.