You might want to take up the Larouche issue with current Pacifica (Interim) Executive Director Ambrose Lane, who has interviewed Lyndon Larouche at least a couple of times. (see below)
Joe W.
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http://www.larouchepac.com/pages/interviews_files/2004/0401002_lyn_ambrose_lane_wpfw.htm
LYNDON LAROUCHE INTERVIEW WITH AMBROSE LANE WPFW-PACIFICA October 1, 2004
AMBROSE LANE: Good morning. I'm Ambrose Lane Sr. And on the phone with us is our special guest today, none other than Lyndon LaRouche. Good morning, Mr. LaRouche.
LAROUCHE: Good morning to you.
LANE: You know, I guess you watched that debate that last night too. But what I'd like for you to do, is to help educate our listeners. You have often referred to these neo-cons as Straussians. Tell our listeners what you mean by that.
LAROUCHE: Well, you had fascist movement which erupted in Germany, of course, as we know, prior to Hitler. And during this period you had a leftwing and a rightwing so-called fascism. Part of it was on the Jewish question, that is, people like Hannah Arendt and so forth, who were really rightwing fascists, or leftwing fascists, were Jewish, and therefore they were not too enthusiastic about Hitler.
In the process, you had a fellow in Marburg, Germany, the northern part of the state of Hessen, who was sponsored by the guy who was actually a key man in Nazi law, Carl Schmitt. Carl Schmitt gave this fellow Leo Strauss a boost, support, for going into England and subsequently the United States, and at a later point, Strauss, in turn, when he was a professor at the University of Chicago, intervened on behalf of Carl Schmitt. Now, Carl Schmitt was the architect of Nazi law. He was the one who designed the concept of law under which Hitler became, and maintained, a dictatorship.
So essentially, that Strauss was a fascist, but he was a Jewish fascist, not a rightwing Nazi fascist.
So, what he taught at the University of Chicago, where he was appointed by Bertrand Russell to a superprofessorship, and what he had taught in a sense earlier, in New York City, was actually a rationalization for fascism, which was an attack on Plato. What he did essentially is he ... you take the case of Plato's great Republic, and you have three characters in there who Plato has debate. These are real historical characters, and what Plato represents them to be, is what they were in real life. Socrates, Thrasymachus, the embodiment of evill, and then Glaucon, who in actually was a cousin of sorts of Plato, and not necessarily a good guy.
So what Strauss represents is the defense of Thrasymachus, who is the most evil figure from the Greek side, in the famous wars, the Peloponnesian Wars, and represents him as the hero of the republic.
Now what you have is, in the neo-cons today, under the influence of Strauss and people like Leo Strauss, what you have, for example, Wolfowitz is a perfect example of that -- what you have is therefore, people who are rationalizing, lying about Plato, by saying the true hero of Plato's Republic is Thrasymachus. This is the man who conducted the worst phase, the most brutal face, of the Peloponnesian War. And essentially, what these fellows represent, in that, they do represent that in practice. What we have in government today, in the neo-cons, is precisely a modernistic echo of the evil Thrasymachus, who was actually an evil figure of the later phase of the Peloponnesian war.
LANE: And a number of neo-cons surrounding George W. Bush are adherents to the Straussian doctrine of fascism.
LAROUCHE: Exactly. And Bush himself, to the extent he understands it, and I think one cannot assume that Bush understands the words he's using. He does have a passion, and a sort of a mean-spirited passion, behind his expression of words, but we find that he uses words in a way which does not correspond even to a rather student dictionary. So, you can't... Bush's intention is not always clear. His intention is mean. He's somewhat mentally disturbed, as the famous book now, Justin Frank's book, indicates, but one can't say too much about Bush's belief, except it's pretty nasty. Whether he understands the neo-cons, I doubt that Bush is intellectually capable of understanding what the neo-cons are saying.
>From: Sasha Lilley <sashalilley at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Subject: [lbo-talk] WBAI scores with holocaust denalist's premium Date:
>Sun, 7 Aug 2005 21:58:54 -0700 (PDT)
>
>I stand corrected about Hufschmid appearing at the
>2004 9-11 event -- I had it mixed with another event
>almost 2 months before where Hufschmid was on the line
>up on February 2, 2004, which aired on KPFA on
>February 16, 2004:
>
>"A KPFA Special Broadcast: Behind Every Terrorist
>There is a Bush - An Evening of Comedy, Music, Art,
>Film, and Censored Truth
>This KPFA Sponsored Event which took place February 2,
>2004 featured Will Durst, René Hicks, Bill Santiago,
>David Rovics, Drew Dillinger, Carol Brouillet, Eric
>Hufschmid, and more. A Benefit for International
>Inquiry into 9-11."
>http://www.kpfa.org/highlights/index.php?airdate=2004-02-16
>
>The audio is not archived so I cannot confirm which
>segments were aired on KPFA but I will see if anyone
>at the station knows.
>
>But does it matter if Eric Hufschmid was part of a
>KPFA sponsored event, which also featured (and, I
>believe, was organized by) KPFA programmers and board
>members, once or twice in 2004 or in 2003? What's
>going on when KPFA is sponsoring events that feature
>pro-Minute Men racists like Alex Jones of
>infowars.org(apparently invited to the March 2004
>event, although not on the final roster) and Lyndon
>LaRouche disciple Webster Tarpley (on the final panel
>for the March, 2004 event). Is it at all strange that
>these unsavory characters happen to be 9/11 conspiracy
>theorists or is the standard for credibility set
>really low in the 9/11 universe?
>
>Here's a gem posted by Alex Jones titled "Illegal
>Alien Crime Wave in Full Swing":
>"Complex problems are associated with illegal aliens
>who commit crimes. Criminal aliens tend to be
>drug-oriented and violent, often preying on members of
>their own cultures."
>http://infowars.org/articles/immigration/illegal_alien_crimewave_in_full_swing.htm
>
>If that doesn't turn your stomach, try this posting,
>"The Hilarious Auschwitz Story," on the Global
>Research site, which Michel Chossudovsky moderates and
>seems to see fit to leave up:
>http://globalresearch.ca.myforums.net/viewtopic.php?t=1432
>
>--- Joseph Wanzala <jwanzala at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > In fact, Eric Hufschimd, who *had* been featured at
> > the 9-11 event at the
> > Herbst in 2003, and was originally listed on the
> > 2004 program, was not on
> > the final program for the 2004 event
> > This is not to disavow *or* champion
> > Hufschmid's work on 9-11
> > (which has nothing to do with his views on the
> > Holocaust etc.)
>
>You don't think his lack of credibility, as a
>Holocaust denier, has no bearing on whether he's
>credible on 9-11?
>
>
>
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