On Misperceiving the Dangers of LaRouche

In the last two years Lyndon LaRouche and his followers have published articles claiming that the murder of six million Jews in the Holocaust never happened, that international Zionism controls part of the drug traffic in America, that the B’nai B’rith plots treason against the United States, that the Rothschilds are engaged in a British-based conspiracy to dominate the world and are “the avowed enemies of the entire human species.” Christopher White, one of LaRouche’s key aides, has written that the “British” [a code word for Jews] are subhuman genetic degenerates whose destruction the United States Labor party must “joyfully ensure” in order to free humanity “from the grasp of that specific form of lower life.” Yet Lionel Abel, himself a Jew, rejoices in the intellectual clarity and forcefulness of LaRouche.

In a paper on LaRouche (“Our First Serious Fascist,” Dissent, Fall 1980) he overest...