LYNDON LaROUCHE
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., 61, leader of the bizarre political and
propaganda network known as the National Caucus of Labor
Committees, is a veteran of many years of left-wing activism whose
political positions in recent years have swung far to the right. A
former computer programmer and management consultant,
LaRouche was born in 1922 in Rochester, New Hampshire, to
Quaker parents. He attended Northeastern University in Boston and
was a conscientious objector at the start of World War II. He
subsequently served as a medical corpsman in the China-Burma-
India theater of operations. Following the war, in 1948, he joined
the Socialist Workers Party (Trotskyist).
During the 1960's, LaRouche tried unsuccessfully to launch various
leftist groups under his own leadership. One of these was allied
with the extreme left Students for Democratic Society (SDS) in the
late 1960s. Known as the "National Caucus of SDS Labor
Committees," the group was active during the 1968 student
disorders at Columbia University. When SDS collapsed in factional
strife during 1969, LaRouche's group dropped in SDS initials and
emerged as the organization still known as the National Caucus of
Labor Committees (NCLC). The group's political vehicle, then
known as the U. S. Labor party (USLP), was formed in 1972.
Increasingly viewing himself as a significant political and economic
figure on the American scene, LaRouche ran for President of the
United States in 1976 and 1980. In the first of these races,
LaRouche was the USLP candidate, on the ballot in twenty-six
states and polling some 40,000 votes. By 1980, LaRouche had
largely discarded the USLP label, running in Democratic primaries
under the banner of the "National Democratic Policy Committee" --
whose name represents an effort to convey the impression that the
group is affiliated with the Democratic Party and its National
Committee. LaRouche garnered about 185,000 votes in fifteen state
Democratic primaries, and qualified, under Federal Election
Commission rules, for over half a million taxpayer dollars in
federal matching funds.
In recent years LaRouche has portrayed himself as a conservative,
business oriented economist and political analyst. Yet, during his
fifteen years of intense political activism, the most conspicuous
aspect of his "philosophy" has been that of conspiracy theories
laced with anti-Semitism. In a 1978 article in the NCLC
publication New Solidarity, LaRouche wrote, "Israel is ruled from
London as a zombie-nation" and that Zionism is "the state of
selective psychosis through which London manipulates most of the
international Jewry." In describing Zionism as "a hideous cult,"
LaRouche went on to allege that the Nazis "only" killed "about a
million and a half" Jews and asserted that Hitler had been put into
power largely with the backing of certain Jewish financial interests.
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