Lyndon Larouche

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Summary: True To Life
Review: A bit heavy-handed at times, and more than a tad biased, Dennis King has still managed to patch together the only factual history of the LaRouche organization. My only real complaint is that it has not been reissued with updated information, carrying the story of this politico-cult to it's current status as some kind of latter-day Hole In The Wall Gang in suburban Washington DC.

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Summary: A book of slanders and propaganda.
Review: Anyone serious who have read Larouche's articles before realize that Dennis King is lying out loud. The reader should look at Larouche's documentation which can be found at www.larouchepub.com and make his own conclusions.

Also, I suggest to look more closely at the author (Dennis King) and who is behing him in this political attack. You will find out that Dennis King use to write for drug legalization magazine High Times and was financed by the Smith Richardson Foundation and the American Enterprise Institude to write his book on Mr. Larouche. These are organizations which promote a Clash of Civilizations policy.

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Summary: A book of slanders and propaganda.
Review: I read this book just to see what the other half says.

It doesn't take one long to see that King is out to smear LaRouche.

I personally try to look for truth and honesty, and with this book it is easy to see why people in this country (USA) in particular, have a hard time trying to find out what is true!

Having read many of LaRouche's writings, and seen him on video etc., the King book is so unbelieveable!
But for those who want to do a study, you should first read what King says, then go and read what LaRouche and his associates say...they are right on !

One thing that I didn't understand though was that King referenced a quote by one of Reagan's National Security Advisors, as saying something like, 'LaRouche has one of the best private intelligence networks in the world'.

Which not only lends credibility to LaRouche...but is true !!

LaRouche is more influential then ever...where is King?

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Summary: The single best book of this kind there is.
Review: It is rare when someone is able to so profoundly understand how a politically subversive man and his organization can infiltrate into American life. If we learn anything from Dennis King, it is that American liberty can be used for good and it is vulnerable to those who would destroy it. In the latter case, the only remedy is for Americans to understand and to take action against men like Lyndon LaRouche and his fanatical followers. Particularly important in Lyndon LaRouches and the New American Fascism is a magnificent analysis of the "code" language that is used by these fanatics to confuse the public, while communicating with others who are like-minded. Dennis King ought to be commended for great effort to protect the Constitution and the American republic!

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Summary: Descent into the world of "pit creatures"
Review: The abusive reviews of this book are obviously the work of LaRouche supporters. Although Lyn's organization is now a pitiful shell of its old, well-funded self, King's book remains an important reference for anyone concerned with the stinkier fringes of American politics.

Unfortunately, however, the volume gives the reader little understanding of LaRouche's charisma or the personal history that must lie behind his more bizarre rantings -- especially his wierd psychosexual theories. His contempt/fear for women and his obsession with anal and fecal imagery makes it seem likely he is tormented by homosexual desire. LaRouche's identification with Socrates (making his followers attractive young Athenians in love with him) tends to confirm this. Perhaps another book on LaRouche remains to be written, ideally by someone qualified to dispense thorazine.

In the meantime, King's account of the LaRouche group's shadowy connections and neo-Nazi ideology is the definitive study of a "little man" who puffed himself up to world-historical dimensions: a figure at once dangerous and absurd.

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Summary: The Hypothesis of the Higher Hypothesis.
Review: This book is full of the worst kind of nonsense. Lyndon LaRouche is portrayed as a comic book archvillain with a megalomaniacal desire for world domination. Read about how LaRouche plays both sides of virtually every issue, using dirty underhanded tactics, smear campaigns, and illegal fund raising methods, to get his way. LaRouche is painted as a type of cult leader wielding absolute authority over a group of his zombified henchmen. Basing his philosophy on an amalgam of German idealism (Leibniz, Kant, Hegel), Karl Marx, Plato's _Republic_, neoNazi antiSemitism, and his own homebrewed concocted conspiracy theory (viz. the Queen of England deals drugs)LaRouche's delusions appear to know of no bounds. The book details his involvement with the intelligence community (CIA, KGB), the Teamsters union, the KKK, Manuel Noriega, and other shady organizations. LaRouche's politics swung violently from Left to Right, typical of such fascist dictators as Mussolini. There are some interesting discussions of Plato's philosophy and education system, nuclear arms proliferation, nuclear fusion, the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), and LaRouche's crank economics theories. Throw into the pot racist doctrines, and antiSemitic (antiZionist) rhetoric. LaRouche certainly defies classification. All in all an interesting, and amusing book, about one of the most eccentric (and evil) of fringe political figures.

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Summary: Who funds Dennis King?
Review: Upon reading the King version of Lyndon Larouche I found so many inconsistencies between what I persoanlly know to be true about Lyndon, as a man of science and physical economics, that I was forced to conclude that King is simply a man of little intellect, and even lesser morals.
I became further enlightened when I flipped to the back of King's book and saw that he thanks the Smith/Richardson foundation for funding the book-length slander.
If you want the truth, don't ask Wall Street, read the science of physical economy from the horses mouth itself. I recommend an introductory book in economics by LaRouche, "So, You Wish to Learn All About Economics?"

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Summary: A Book Devoid of LaRouche's Ideas
Review: Whether one likes LaRouche's eclectic blend of positivism and Renaissance humanism or no, he is an astoundingly well-read and erudite thinker, and this book does no justice to the depth of his thoughts, laughably treating him as a neo-conservative fascist ideologue. The author treats the evolution in LaRouche's thinking -- from Marxist to fairly pro-industry, neo-Louis XI statist -- as some sort of sellout when the actual reasons are far more intriguing than LaRouche is given credit. While I agree that LaRouche is a bit of a whacko, the intellectual history of the 20th century deserves a better account of the man's odd and interesting ideas than this shoddy, biased book gives.