Lyndon LaRouche

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Lyndon LaRouche (2006)

Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr. (born September 8, 1922 in Rochester , New Hampshire - † February 12, 2019 ) was an American political activist who founded the internationally represented LaRouche movement. Since 1976 he has applied for the office of President of the United States several times without success . First he ran for the " US Labor Party " he led, later he tried unsuccessfully in the primaries to run for the Democrats . LaRouche was imprisoned until 1994 after being sentenced to fifteen years in prison on multiple criminal cases.

Positions

LaRouche was an opponent of the current world economic system , which he predicted an imminent collapse. As an alternative, he advocated a “new Bretton Woods system ” with fixed exchange rates , a protectionist economic policy and a number of technology projects. Among other things, he considered massive investments to be necessary, for example to expand the New Eurasian Continental Bridge. LaRouche was a conspiracy theorist who saw the opponents of his movement in the Bank of England , the Club of Rome and many individual personalities who are said to be part of a global conspiracy whose activities are directed against life, against growth and against science and progress. For terrorism , wars , AIDS and other evils, LaRouche blamed current world-conspiratorial centers, which he varied at will.

LaRouche was difficult to classify politically by conventional standards, as he sometimes suddenly changed his political orientation by 180 degrees. His proposal to build a new Bretton Woods showed some parallels to the left that was critical of globalization . Nevertheless, his movement came across rejection, partly due to his enthusiasm for the civilian use of nuclear and fusion energy , especially for the type of pebble bed reactor ( Pebble Bed Modular Reactor , PBMR), which with the possibility of producing relatively pure uranium-233 poses a risk of proliferation .

LaRouche also expressed himself anti-Semitic several times .

prison sentence

In several criminal Lyndon LaRouche was u. a. Sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment for "conspiracy and mail fraud" . Some of his employees received various, sometimes life, prison sentences . The judges saw it as proven that LaRouche and six of his supporters had stolen loans by false information about the collateral available without informing the donors about the considerable financial difficulties of their organization.

LaRouche himself saw the condemnation as an attempt to "eliminate" him as a politician. The conviction was the result of a conspiracy led by Henry Kissinger , in which the FBI , the Wall Street Journal , NBC television , Reader's Digest and the Anti-Defamation League were involved.

LaRouche Movement

LaRouche's theories are represented almost exclusively by organizations that are close to the "LaRouche movement" named after him. In Germany, these are above all the civil rights movement Solidarity, led by LaRouche's wife Helga Zepp-LaRouche , and the Schiller Institute, also led by her . In 1996, the then federal government designated the European Workers' Party (EAP) , which was closely related to the LaRouche movement and also founded by Helga Zepp-LaRouche in 1974, as a political sect in a response to a small request from members of the CDU / CSU and FDP . This view is also shared by dropouts. The US Labor Party (USLP) , founded by Lyndon LaRouche in the early 1970s, operates in the background of the European Workers' Party . The “LaRouche Group” consists of many individual organizations, parties, non-commercial organizations and companies. The members act extremely conscious of the mission (with a moral claim to sole representation ) and practice a personality cult around the founding couple LaRouche. The spectrum in dealing with ideological and political opponents ranges from provocative propaganda and gross verbal injuries to potential acts of violence.

The “LaRouche movement” is considered to set the tone in the right-wing scene in the sector of world-conspiracy-theoretical enemy image cultivation at least until 1994. The enemy images were often changed. In the early to mid-1970s it was still the CIA and Rockefeller . In the late 1970s it was the British, Freemasons , Zionists , a black international nobility. And while sympathizing with the Reagan administration, the KGB and a Russian “ Third Rome ” were proclaimed enemies. Eventually the US course was rejected and the CIA and a secret subsidiary government of the USA declared the enemy. The “LaRouche Organization” is strictly hierarchical, and all areas of life of the hard core supporters are controlled. Professional training, activities outside of physical activity and vacations are frowned upon. Since the founding days, there has been a pronounced security paranoia in the group. In the early 1980s, LaRouche made sure that there were always at least eight armed bodyguards in his escort convoy, who were instructed to open fire immediately as soon as a foreign vehicle tried to break into the convoy. According to LaRouche, his security guards disguised themselves for security reasons. a. as a reporter.

In the 1980s, LaRouche co-founded the Prevent AIDS Now Initiative Committee (PANIC). In California, in addition to an improvement in sanitary facilities, a state of emergency was declared. The proposals were criticized by doctors because they fueled fears in the population and contributed little to prevention.

The group sympathized with the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein . Contacts with the then regime in Iraq already existed in the mid-1970s. At the beginning of the 1990s, there was solidarity with Islamists . There were lines of connection from the “LaRouche group” to the Islamic fundamentalist regime of Umar al-Bashir and to the militant anti-Semitic group Nation of Islam (NOI) of Louis Farrakhan . During the second Gulf War there was renewed cooperation with Iraq, and LaRouche confidants made regular visits to Iraq. The Iraq war in 2003 declined LaRouche, however, due to a rejection of not imperialism , but because of the Iraq war, according to LaRouche had the goal of the US economy to harm.

"Code" magazine

In collaboration with Lyndon LaRouche, the monthly magazine “Code” by the publisher Ekkehard Franke-Gricksch was published by Diagnosen-Verlag until November 1995 . According to the 1992 report on the Protection of the Constitution , the publication distributed primarily revisionist content that denied war guilt and Nazi crimes. In 1980 the licensee of the German-language editions was the CODE publishing house in Vaduz . The magazine was incorporated into Memopress in 1996 .

Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) magazine

The LaRouche Network has published Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) magazine since 1974 . The journalist Jörg-R. Mettke themed in the mirror -Article March 5, 1984 with the headline "Wahn GmbH and Co. KG" , the role of Anno Hellenbroich , the then second deputy national chairman of the European Workers Party and also the managing director of the organization's own magazine Executive Intelligence Review , and his brother Heribert Hellenbroich , who was President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution from 1983 to 1985 .

Publications

  • The next 50 years: Dialogue between the cultures of Eurasia . EIR, 2006 ISBN 978-3925725
  • Children of Satan . Lyndon LaRouche PAC, 2005
  • Is the Devil in Your Laptop? The Noosphere vs. The blogosphere . La Rouche PAC, Leesburg, VA 2007

literature

  • Dennis King: Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism . Doubleday, New York 1989 ISBN 0-385-23880-0
  • Helmut Lorscheid, Leo A. Müller: Code name: Schiller. Lyndon LaRouche's German patriots . rororo aktuell, Reinbek 1986 ISBN 9783499159169

Web links

Commons : Lyndon LaRouche  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schiller Institute
  2. ^ Hubert Michael Mader: Studies and reports. Political esotericism - a right-wing extremist challenge. National Defense Academy, Vienna 1999. pp. 41–42.
  3. ^ Friedwardt Winterberg : The physical principles of thermonuclear explosive devices . Fusion Energy Foundation, New York 1981. The Fusion Energy Foundation is part of Lyndon LaRouche's organizations.
  4. ↑ Chip Berlet, Political Research Associates: Protocols to the Left, Protocols to the Right: Conspiracism in American Political Discourse at the Turn of the Second Millennium - Reconsidering The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: 100 Years After the Forgery , 30./31 . October 2005, The Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies, Boston University. ( Overview with a link to the "Slide Show" )
  5. ↑ Helen Gilbert: Lyndon LaRouche: Fascism Restyled for the New Millennium , Ed. Red Letter: Seattle 2003, ISBN 0-932323-21-9 (Red Banner Reader, No. 8).
  6. ↑ Clara Fraser: Revolution, she wrote , Ed. Red Letter: Seattle 1998, Chapter: LaRouche: Sex Maniac and Demagogue (pp. 231-236).
  7. ^ Dennis King: Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism (see literature).
  8. ^ Patrick Reardon and Kurt Greenbaum (March 20, 1986). LaRouche Element Is an Extreme Case. Chicago Tribune p. 1. ISSN  1085-6706 : “The LaRouche organization, often described as anti-Semitic.”
  9. ^ Hubert Michael Mader: Studies and reports. Political esotericism - a right-wing extremist challenge. Vienna: National Defense Academy 1999. pp. 40–41. Washington Post, December 17, 1988
  10. ↑ biography on larouchepub.com
  11. ↑ Bundestag printed matter 13/4132 of March 15, 1996
  12. ^ Hubert Michael Mader: Studies and reports. Political esotericism - a right-wing extremist challenge. National Defense Academy, Vienna 1999, p. 44.
  13. ^ Hubert Michael Mader: Studies and reports. Political esotericism - a right-wing extremist challenge. National Defense Academy, Vienna 1999, p. 43.
  14. ^ Hubert Michael Mader: Studies and reports. Political esotericism - a right-wing extremist challenge. National Defense Academy, Vienna 1999, pp. 41–43.
  15. ^ The New York Times: LaRouche Says His Supporters Take Covert Roles in Campaign , February 15, 1980
  16. ^ Senate Office of Research, "Proposition 64: The AIDS Initiative in California" (1986). California Senate. Paper 225, p. 11.
  17. ^ Senate Office of Research, Proposition 64: The AIDS Initiative in California (1986). California Senate. Paper 225, p. 31.
  18. ^ Hubert Michael Mader: Studies and reports. Political esotericism - a right-wing extremist challenge. National Defense Academy, Vienna 1999, pp. 42–43.
  19. ^ Helen Gilbert: Lyndon LaRouche: Fascism Restyled for the New Millennium. Red Letter Press 2003, p. 13
  20. ↑ a b "CODE" magazine, subtitle: Exclusives from politics and business. (No longer available online.) In: Lexicon of right-wing extremism. Right-wing extremism information service IDGR, archived from the original on May 19, 2014 ; Retrieved August 9, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lexikon.idgr.de
  21. ↑ Code: Exclusives from politics and business. Editor: Ekkehard Franke-Gricksch . Leonberg: Publishing house diagnoses. DNB 010625526 , accessed August 9, 2011.
  22. ^ "The writing (CODE - HL) mixes political and other topics and publishes mainly revisionist articles that deny war guilt and Nazi crimes." - Right-wing extremist movements: IX. Non-organizational publishers and distribution services . Constitutional Protection Report 1992, p. 125
  23. ↑ Tamedia AG: Facts , issue 1/1996
  24. ^ Wahn-GmbH and Co. KG by Jörg-R. Mettke, Der Spiegel March 5, 1984
personal data
SURNAME LaRouche, Lyndon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES LaRouche, Lyndon Hermyle Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political activist
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Rochester , New Hampshire
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 2019