Is synarchy real? Or has the term just become grist for LaRouche's mill?

[arendt]

If you ever venture near the swamp of "secret societies", you may
have heard of "synarchy".

I tripped over it because I get an absolute laugh out of the ludicrous
response of everyone to "The DaVinci Code". It is a real-life re-run of
Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum".

Beginning from DaVinci Code, you don't have to go far to find synarchy.
Just proceed through "Holy Blood, Holy Grail", and you meet Pierre Plantard
and the Priory of Sion. Two years after DaVinci, the crazies who make their
living in this looney bin have unanimously decided that the P of S is a total
fraud. One new book turns over the rock of Mon. Plantard, and out crawls...

....synarchy.

But, if you Google synarchy, you mostly get hits on Lyndon LaRouche
publications - where sane mortals fear to tread (very well written,
but very twisted alternate reality conspiracy theories).

Can anyone tell me if "synarchy" really existed, or if it was nothing
but an exotic conspiracy theory to explain the origins of fascism?

I have seen claims that the Egyptologist, Schwaller de Lubicz, was a
synarchist, and that all the New Age pyramid cult stuff is another
synarchist plot. That SdL was a Nazi sympathizer, and perhaps, an
agent.

I'd forget about synarchy, categorize it as X-Files, LaRouche, cultie babbling,
EXCEPT that Leo Strauss and the neocons do behave like the "mythical" synarchists;
and they have direct personal connections to "historical" synarchists -
who, it is claimed, were very active in pre-fascist (e.g., G. Annunzio)
and fascist Europe. Hell, Michael Ledeen worships Mussolini.

Any comments or insight about the reality of synarchy? Is this cult-land?
Do I need to be de-programmed?

arendt

[meegbear]

1. synarchy ...

\Syn"ar*chy\, n. Joint rule or sovereignity. --Stackhouse.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=synarchy

[salvorhardin]

2. Wikipedia is usually a good jumping off point

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synarchy

[ret5hd]

3. without making me go to larouche's et al writings...

what is the definition of synarchy?

would it be a combination of syndicalism and anarchy? If so, i've heard/read of anarcho-syndicalism, but not synarchy.

[arendt]

4. Sort of "bankers rule world thru phony religious fronts"...

sound like the neocons and the fundies?

Its all about elites and inner circles of secret
societies.

Apparently, the kind of "Son of Seth"/Shirley
McLaine "channeling" that we associate with
the 60s had an earlier wave just before the
French Revolution.

Apparently, there were massive schisms in Freemasonry.
Some Freemasons came to believe knowledge
"channeled" to them from an "Unknown Agent".
The descendents of those Masonic Lodges trace
down to P2 in Italy and to other fascist plots.

The basic idea seems to be to use "secret societies"
to push phony, authoritarian religions that the
pushers are in control of, because they are the
inner circle of said secret society. Sound like
PNAC or "Council for National Policy"?

arendt

[arendt]

5. Several other context-dependent features...

in France, it was a heavily right-wing Catholic movement,
allied with the restoration of the monarchy and opposed
to the Republic and the Enlightenment.

In modern Europe, some (voices from the impenetrable conspiracy
literature) argue that the European Union is a synarchic
program to steal democracy from countries by an unaccountable
continental bureaucracy.

In America, LaRouche argues that the Neocons, who everyone
agrees are Straussian, are synarchists. Admittedly, once
you put Strauss in the picture, his ties go straight back
to the 1930s French synarchists.

arendt

[arendt]

6. Just a kick - anyone have any info? n/t