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Larouchw, Lyndon H. Jr.
There is no contemporary figure of international public life more closely associated with a thorough, rigorously elaborated political economy than I am. Hence when Lionel Abel writes [in Dissent,...
...That is what is occurring now...
...The widespread calumnies spread against me from such sources are understandable...
...Bastions of the philosophical outlook of "continental science," of Augustinian Neoplatonism and its parallels persist...
...The British intelligentsia, although fanatically empiricist (at least in the broader sense of that term), is not only conscious of opposing philosophical outlooks, but commands some degree of systematic insight into the philosophical viewpoints to which it is opposed...
...Toward such isolated issues, each taken more or less one at a time, Americans usually respond by adopting a "right-wing," "liberal," or "left-wing" posture, usually choosing that posture according to mere label—as of "conservative," "liberal," and so forth—the posture bears by reputation...
...We have to attack him as "Nazi...
...Some matters are too serious to be left to intellectual enfants terribles...
...I drew much of the above information from an article by 122 King that appeared in the October 15, 1980 issue of the New Haven Advocate...
...He seems to be saying that LaRouche is worse politically, that is to say, more dangerous, and on the other hand, less appealing intellectually, that is to say less dangerous, than I made him out to be...
...Although the computer-based method of economic forecasting and analysis known as the "LaRouche118 Riemann Model" is but a predicate of my more generalized political-philosophical method and outlook, everything that my associates and I represent is sufficiently implicit in that predicated political-economic feature of my associates' common work and outlook generally...
...When such habituated, Pavlov-reflex-type labels lose their former kneejerkprompting authority, people tend to fall back upon their unconscious philosophical tendencies...
...Yet, Abel uses the cited sentence concerning King's allegations as the implied premise of his own article as a whole...
...John of Jerusalem, "are going to tie them up with Jews...
...When France's President Giscard d'Estaing and Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt launched the new European Monetary System in July 1978, a number of leading financial officials in Europe and the United States reacted to that initiative by describing me as "the intellectual author" of the new system—with special emphasis on what is often called the "Phase II" implementation of the new European system...
...Rather, the same influenced news media which ordinarily suppress news accounts of my activities turned in by their journalists, spent millions of dollars' worth of coverage, in multithousand-word libels in principal print media, to circulate lying defamation modeled on the hoaxes originally conduited through the pages of a felon-edited throwaway rag produced from the orbit of the most authentic of "McCarthyites," Roy Cohn...
...Those enemies include, most prominently, the Mont Pelerin Society and its U.S...
...When he deems it necessary, in addition, to drag in not only Machiavelli but also Leibnitz and neo-Platonism when describing the spirit and logic of this fascist demagogue, the cup runneth over...
...For example, this application of Riemannian physics to economic processes cross-fertilized our work in plasma physics and related topics...
...Although the British intelligentsia is fanatically empiricist overall, such British empiricists are much better educated than the run of graduate students from our anglophile universities...
...Mussolini was by far the most brilliant of the three...
...I believe that most of the editorial community of Dissent would stipulate that they recognize, and are opposed to the political-philosophical current which I represent: that of the "continental" Neoplatonic republicans, from Dante Alighieri, through Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa, the Erasmians, the school of Raphael, the French Oratorians and politiques, and the networks associated with Leibnitz, including the Ecole Polytechnique and the Lafayette-centered, international "American System" conspiracy of such American notables as Henry Clay, Henry C. Carey, Friedrich List, and Abraham Lincoln during the 19th century...
...No one would argue for Goering's intellectual superiority...
...In the New Hampshire primary, this effort produced an estimated 23-24 percent vote for my candidacy...
...Quite apart from the malicious sort of speculation concerning my alleged virtu, Weberian charisma, or whatever else is dredged up to similar effect, even presumably well-educated Americans suffer a defect which prevents them from comprehending the sort of political transformation currently under way...
...123...
...Jim Jones brought considerably more excitement to the political scene, but Lionel Abel did not then feel impelled to comment on his political appeal...
...It is that sociological-political potential of the constituencybased Democratic party of Roosevelt which must be salvaged from the wrecking-process the party has suffered since approximately the 1966-68 period...
...It is clear either that Mr...
...All these categorizations were circulated internationally in the form of either books, substantial pamphlets, or through lengthy newspaper and magazine articles, in which those categorizations are presented as the conclusion of extensive documentation...
...I don't have to be told that," Silone responded...
...Therefore, my wife and I support the efforts of our cherished and lovable acquaintance, Nahum Goldmann...
...Abel thinks that LaRouche "is clearly a master of the concepts he has chosen to discuss...
...However, as the scandal around the election of Senator Durkin indicates, and as shown by the massive proportion of tombstones built into New Hampshire local voting lists, New Hampshire is as vote-fraud-prone as Mississippi is popularly reputed to be...
...Two isolated, but key sentences in Abel's article as a whole suffice to prove that that article was not written on the basis of direct study of my writings and activities as a Democratic party presidential candidate...
...LaRouche's comments...
...LaRouche more intelligent than President-elect Reagan and wrong, too, in thinking he knows more about science and history than President Carter or Senator Kennedy...
...Chiaromonte found the tone of these stories somewhat too favorable to Tito and reminded Silone that Tito was in no sense a democrat...
...Despite his attempts to achieve the "Fleming effect" of literary believability, with selected references to give the false appearance of extensive scholarship, the evidence of the article is clear...
...It is not wildly presumptuous of me to assume that that editorial community situates itself within the anglophile-liberal "revisionist" interpretation of American history...
...Readers who wish more information are directed to the writings of a first-class investigative reporter, Dennis King, who has made it his mission to expose LaRouche's nefarious activities...
...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...
...The tendency toward an "Age of Aquarius" utopia has preponderant support among leading Anglo-American circles of power, but about three-quarters of the American adult population is governed ultimately by an unconscious philosophical tendency which converges upon my own...
...Coser's animus against me comes from the fact that he thinks my attack on LaRouche may have been helpful to the latter...
...This "utilitarianism," the social doctrine of the "felicific calculus" ("hedonistic calculus"), is rightly viewed as a consistent outgrowth of the British empiricism of Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Adam Smith, and David Hume...
...Lionel Abel is an old friend and a jolly good fellow, but his paper on LaRouche is an unmitigated disaster and testifies to a good deal of moral obtuseness as well as political ineptitude...
...This file consisted chiefly of regurgitated false and malicious gossip against me, plus a few isolated items taken outrageously out of context, and used to imply verisimilitude...
...We are, generally, become a nation of the "philosophically purblind...
...This was a broadly accurate appreciation of my policies...
...The Democratic party of Roosevelt is the congress of mass-based constituencies through which to develop a common national policy of industry, agriculture, and labor appropriately efficient in serving the interests of all...
...When I intervened personally into "New Left" ferment of the middle to late 1960s, to recruit selectively the nucleus of an elite replica of the old Platonic Academy, I became best known for my application of Riemannian methods to correct the central error of Karl Marx's four-volume Capital, emphasizing the elementary fallacy most clearly underlined by the concluding, fragmentary chapter of *Capital II...
...He controls a $5 million-ayear computer software firm...
...He seems to be saying that I underestimate the menace of LaRouche, but swinging counterweight, he charges me with taking him too seriously...
...Dissent's collective conscience obliges it to brush Roy Cohn-copied lying calumnies against me to one side, and to debate both our philosophical differences and these crucial issues honestly...
...The effort to characterize me by some new, ever-wilder calumny, attempting to suppress all reference to the policies I represent, now works to discredit more or less immediately the sort of thug who attempts to spread such lying filth...
...To most Americans, "policy" is degraded to signify a specific posture toward some isolated issue, down to the level of such debatable issues as the frequency of refuse collection in neighborhoods...
...Thus far, only a limited number of my close friends, and some Jesuits on the opposing side, really understand this process...
...It is this defect which spills over into such specific attempts as Abel's malevolent estimation of my imagined mystical properties...
...My included purpose is to make that process, and the choices it represents for practice, generally understood by a better-informed citizenry...
...Exit polls, as corroborated in part by statements of Kennedy and Brown exit-pollers in a number of key wards, indicate the total vote for my candidacy to have been between 23 and 24 percent of the total...
...Let us use this occasion, therefore, to begin that productive debate...
...my adversaries "fight dirty...
...q Lionel Abel Replies The two replies to my piece on Lyndon LaRouche, one by Mr...
...It is true that my associates and I are responsible for compiling certain revelations...
...My associates and I made the transition from obscurity toward our present, rapidly growing participation in international policy-formulating circles during the 197475 period...
...The habituated "philosophical purblindness" of our 20th-century culture inevitably slows down the rate at which citizens are able to make the shift from knee-jerk label politics, to real politics based on the practical implications of opposing philosophical tendencies...
...This also subjected me to international "dirty tricks" deployed under the personal direction of Henry A. Kissinger...
...by the Rockefeller interests...
...This "philosophical purblindness" is a crucial influence in the current transformation of our nation's political processes and institutions...
...I suggested that he is a fascist and his reply is that I have obviously not heard all his television broadcasts...
...The principal cause for this transition was the international circulation of the proposal to replace the shards of the Bretton Woods system with a new, goldbased international rediscount facility, which I named tentatively a new "International Development Bank," beginning with my first public announcement of this proposal by means of a Bonn, West Germany, press conference in April 1975...
...LaRouche himself, the other by Lewis Coser, are on about the same intellectual level: both writers evidently prefer name-calling to reasoned argument...
...I must add here that Lewis Coser has had the bad taste to remind me and my readers that I am a Jew, as if in my piece I had not taken note of the fact...
...The exposure to tens of millions of citizens effected through major nationwide television broadcasts and intensive campaigning in a number of states and regions has undermined the credibility of continued efforts to attack me with such wild lying slanders...
...What is real and important in the Democratic party of today is that under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, especially during the war years, the party became sociologically the most appropriate instrument for revival of the American Whig combination, Henry C. Carey's "harmony of interests" among industry, agriculture, and labor...
...The American product of such influences ingenuously accepts empiricism as "simply the normal, right way of thinking...
...In addition to the broad political-philosophical hostility my outlook and policies evoke among anglophileliberal currents generally, and in addition to the specific enmity I enjoy from Henry Kissinger's circles, I have vigorously attacked the neo-Malthusian Club of Rome for its genocidal proposals of global reduction of the population...
...Here Mr...
...He has certainly not disproved my suggestion that his political deliverances are tilted, in style and substance, toward a kind of fascism...
...We should confide to your readers who do not happen to be specialist scholars in such matters that "British philosophical radicalism" is usually traced to Jeremy Bentham, and is otherwise associated with the 19th-century British and Viennese "utilitarians," including the economists Jevons and Marshall...
...Generally speaking, chiefly because of the influence of British empiricism in our universities over the course of this century, Americans have become "philosophically purblind...
...Although members of that association might disagree with specifics of William James, John Dewey, Charles A. Beard, Walter Lippmann, Thurman Arnold, William Appleman Williams, and Gabriel Kolko, they locate themselves within the orbit of that community of liberalism...
...In part, this Jewish Defense League attack is simply what the affidavits of Canon West's and Jeremiah Novak's statements imply...
...Since Abel purports to be something of an independentjournalistic authority on the entirety of the LaRouche campaign, the factual error, "once again this year," is a revealing blunder...
...There is nothing mystical in the fact that the efforts of Roy Cohn's friends to obliterate my candidacy did not prevent me from emerging as an important factor in the Democratic party nationally, despite the equivalent of tens of millions of dollars' worth of effort expended against me, and massive dirty tricks from the Carter White House and John White's circles of the Democratic National Committee...
...Those, too, are my pledged adversaries...
...LaRouche were as untalented as Mr...
...That is documented in part by FOIA documents, including key documents signed by Kissinger, as well as by personal report of high-level officials of both Western European and emergingnation governments and other leading circles...
...That won't work against LaRouche, Novak criticized the authors of the "anti-Semitism" slander...
...Although my associates and I oppose Zionism as a theological absurdity, in the same terms as many rabbis, the state of Israel within its internationally recognized borders is a fact, and it is past time that the Israeli refugees from the horrifying experience and image of Auschwitz found security through comprehensive and durable peace with their Arab neighbors...
...John the Divine, identified the authorship of the libel more broadly, "We," Canon West stated, referring to the British Order of St...
...One is accustomed to grant Lionel Abel a certain amount of idiosyncrasy credit, but this time he has overdrawn his account by too much...
...What else is there to say on this most unpleasant matter...
...Abel is lying, or that he is almost totally ignorant of what he purports to be writing about...
...LaRouche have the courage of his own expletives, and admit in the pages of Dissent what he has written elsewhere of Henry Kissinger, Walter Lippmann, the Jews, the British, Isaac Newton, Clark Maxwell, and David Hume...
...With Hitler, however, the case is somewhat different...
...This correction of Abel's sentence is not a quibble...
...Nonetheless, our population is deeply divided in direction of impulse by profound differences in unconscious philosophical tendencies...
...My choice of political pathways is governed by a continual study of the problem from this standpoint...
...I am persuaded that the safest and best pathway for the evolving transformation of U.S...
...propaganda arm, the Heritage Foundation, as well as Roy Cohn's cronies of the New York East Side Conservative Club...
...Before moving into the Democratic primaries, LaRouche's United States Labor party ran independent candidates between 1973 and 1979 and received between 8 percent and 32 percent of the popular vote in some 20 local and congressional races...
...On a range of such issues, my policies coincide in effect with the dictates of the American traditionalistliberal conscience...
...Of course the question, like everything else in Mr...
...Many of those who were content to just call Hitler names ended up in his concentration camps...
...Such simplistic sorts of libel and covert-operations containment efforts against me have had their day...
...The sources of the libelous file from which Abel cribbed his own paraphrases are rather well-defined...
...The second of the telltale sentences points to the authorship of the file on which Abel actually based his piece...
...Simone Weil wrote that Hitler...
...It is true that I am the target of threats as well as hatred of the Jewish Defense League, with which Mr...
...Although massive vote fraud and Roy Cohn's allies' control over the libel policy of every New Hampshire daily newspaper could affect the vote in that and subsequent primary elections, fraud merely masked, but could not extirpate the effects of the campaign itself...
...It is also true that my alliances with certain Zionist and non-Zionist Jewish forces against the "Greater Israel" fanatics of the Menahem Begin government has earned me the hatred of that faction of Israeli intelligence, centered in the Mossad, for which the Jewish Defense League is a well-known cover inside the United States...
...Such predicates of application of Neoplatonic method —what used to be termed by the British the methods of "continental science"—imply our outlook toward every aspect of life, including our historiography, and our overview of such matters as constitutional and natural law...
...Yet Lionel Abel, himself a Jew, rejoices in the intellectual clarity and forcefulness of LaRouche...
...Most such nations are far more cultured than educated Americans on this important point...
...First I must consider Mr...
...How would Abel react if someone were to argue about the intellectual superiority of Goebbels or Goering over the Social Democratic leaders of the Weimer Republic...
...One may win some of them away from LaRouche by describing him correctly, never by just calling him names...
...Abel thinks that LaRouche "has at least brought a modicum of excitement to the political scene...
...LaRouche, according to Abel, exhibits the "very quality Machiavelli thought most essential for political success, i.e., virtu" I hold no brief for Machiavelli, but to believe that a two-bit demagogue embodies Machiavelli's highest virtue is a gratuitous insult to the great Italian thinker...
...Dennis King has been working publicly over most of the past 12 months, as well as threats from the Khomeini supporters of the international Muslim Brotherhood...
...q 121 Lewis Coser 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...
...As liberals, Dissent editors may be among those drawn into the "environmentalist movement's" orbit, but are they willing to follow that neo-Malthusian doctrine to the point of multibillion-person genocide recently proposed by the terms of the Carter administration's "Global 2000" doctrine, the doctrine already directly responsible for imminent genocide in most of black 119 Africa...
...Trotsky also insisted that Hitler had far more imagination than Stalin, and the historian Trevor-Roper credits Hitler with great powers of mind...
...Nor is Mr...
...Anderson, scrupulously saying next to nothing on every subject, but in a style of baref000ted frankness, appeals to the philosophical tendency Brown represents, yet without 120 embarrassing his supporters with detailed exposition of the practical implications of that philosophical drift...
...but by his answer he has raised some doubt in me that he is serious in whatever he is doing or thinks he is doing...
...Another affidavit, this reporting statements volunteered by Canon Edward West of New York's Anglican Cathedral of St...
...He manipulates a variety of front organizations such as the Fusion Energy Foundation and the National Anti-Drug Coalition...
...Without the legal services of Mr...
...Do we not agree that the imminent death of tens of millions of Africans from famine, epidemic, and murderous, armed gangs must be halted immediately...
...would be capable of analyzing intellectual-political problems with that much assurance and verve...
...In fact, during the New Hampshire Democratic primary my campaign deployed more radio and television broadcasting than any two other Democratic or Republican candidates combined, including two nationwide half-hour television-network broadcasts during that period...
...Once again, I am perhaps mistaken in my judgment...
...At a time when an avowed Nazi candidate can gain 56,000 votes in a North Carolina Republican primary, and a member of the Klu Klux Klan can win the Democratic congressional nomination in a Southern California district, it hardly behooves us to prattle about the intellectual superiority of fascist politicians...
...Considering the combined forces' influence over much of the nationwide news media, it is not astonishing that those news media have not carried a stick of objective reporting of my actual campaign and other activities—even when such activities are reported in the leading press abroad...
...This second aspect of my recent role has provoked worried attention of the sort echoed in the opening eight paragraphs of Abel's piece...
...Are they willing to tolerate such genocide merely to satisfy hostility against "industrial capitalism," to tolerate genocide on grounds that life-saving modern technology represents "ethnocide...
...It is not a habit they have acquired recently, simply out of rage against me...
...Hence when Lionel Abel writes [in Dissent, Fall 1980], .. the lack of foundation for LaRouche's position in some theory of political economy," we have in such a statement adequate, conclusive proof that his opinions on LaRouche as a whole are not only fraudulent, but willfully fraudulent...
...What distinguishes me from modern professors of 19th-century American political-economy is work I began approximately 1952, applying the physical-geometrical methods of Bernhard Riemann to a then-unresolved principal problem of mathematical economics: the problem of determining changes in the rate of economic growth consequent to changes in the rate of introduction of more advanced productive technologies...
...There is a process in motion in the nation's political life, a process whose probable outcome is beyond the precalculations of those "philosophically purblind" fellows exerting waning degrees of control over our nation's mental-political fife...
...One night in Rome in 1962, I had dinner at the Chiaromontes with Ignazio Silone, who had just returned from a visit to Yugoslovia...
...If this nation survives the desperate adventures of strategic confrontation looming before us now, the future of this nation will belong entirely either to the philosophical tendency represented by Jerry Brown and John B. Anderson or to that I represent...
...The Shift in the U.S...
...To this sociological potential of such a constituency-based party, there must be added the made-conscious philosophical outlook and appropriate programmatic domestic and foreign policies which fulfill the sociological potentialities...
...Do we not agree, for example, that the United States must not be plunged into an avoidable depression worse than that of the 1930s...
...To my quotations from his book, which indicate the zest and virulence of his anti-Semitic bias, he replies that he has not been quoted fully...
...He maintains security teams trained in "counterterror force," which in the early '70s engaged in more than 60 violent attacks on members of the Communist party...
...Political Process IN ADDITION to the issues associated with the policies I (actually) represent, there is currently in process a profound shift in U.S...
...Yet, that speculation aside, there are a number of specific policies of current importance to liberals on which we must tend to find strong agreement...
...He publishes a variety of publications and newsletters, some traveling the high road and most traveling the low...
...Reception of my proposals was especially favorable among those concurring with the outlook of France's Jacques Rueff and supporters of the 1967 Populorutn Progressio of Pope Paul VI...
...strikes directly at the imagination...
...Here an anecdote may be instructive...
...Roy Cohn's friends, including the defense of Our Town in major libel actions arising out of the very lies which contributor Abel borrows from that source, it is doubted that Our Town would have survived the adversary attention of many forces, including Mr...
...Ens...
...I find Abel's genuflexions before the superior intellectual virtues of LaRouche, his admiration for the forcefulness and decisiveness of his judgments, disconcerting, to say the least...
...During recent times, Americans have not responded directly to issues of political policy, at least not as the term "policy" woud be understood by an educated European, Mexican, or Indian...
...He enjoys unofficial alliances with powerful Teamster officials, with the Liberty lobby, and with nuclear power companies who rejoice in his campaign for the building up of nuclear energy...
...It is not necessary to engage in mystical sorts of metaphysical speculations, as Abel does in debating whether or not I possess the mystical Machiavellian property of virtu...
...Jerry Brown proved less credible than John Anderson as a 1980 candidate of this trend because Brown's public statements and associations were excessively explicit...
...Thus, mass political behavior currently involves a declining adherence—for perhaps one last time—to the vestiges of the old knee-jerk politics-by-label, and is in process of shifting toward political formations and policy debates more directly premised upon underlying philosophical tendencies...
...In addition to substantial state and regional campaign broadcasts, usually half-hour televised features, in Wisconsin, California, Texas, and elsewhere-, my campaign's major nationwide television coverage totaled four half-hour broadcasts and one quarter-hour broadcast...
...That newspaper also published substantial excerpts from the principal nationwide television broadcasts, as well as events such as my address to the Texas State Democratic Convention's plenary sessions...
...Apparently Mr...
...Why does not Mr...
...I refer first to what appears to be an innocent error in the second sentence of Abel's article as a whole...
...The editor of the weekly shoppers' throwaway Our Town, one Ed Kayatt, is a convicted felon, who served time in prison in connection with fraud...
...Abel believes that "no other candidate for president...
...I believe that Mr...
...Even Brown's potential supporters were not generally ready to hear the implications of their philosophical drift confronting them in such explicit terms...
...Novak, speaking back in 1978, added, "I'm going to Europe" to get the "Nazi" libel against LaRouche underway...
...Reality asserted itself...
...However, he was quoted accurately by me...
...political institutions, a shift which explains, at least in significant degree, my successful emergence as a growing factor within the Democratic party...
...I say it again, and I will say this of any politician who I think is possessed of this quality...
...And he also is convinced of the "superiority LaRouche...
...117 The "Neo-Nazi" Charge ACCORDING TO the notarized transcript of a taperecorded conversation with Jeremiah Novak, the proposal to libel me as a "Nazi" originated with his circles intersecting the office of Senator Jacob Javits...
...The contrast between the growth of my own role within the Democratic party to the differentiated effects of the Jerry Brown and John B. Anderson candidacies illuminates the development...
...As citizens whose underlying philosophical tendency resonates with my own belief that traditional political formations have become ineffective, are capitulating to the onrush of the philosophical tendency represented by Brown and Anderson, they are impelled, correspondingly, to adopt my effort as the drift toward a neo-Malthusian utopian order...
...In our country, the situation has been reached today, that the very name of "philosophy" has become so emptied, so degraded that almost any old curmudgeon sprouting disjointed, bucolic sentimentalities from a back-porch rocking chair might be labeled a "philosopher" without offense to public opinion...
...And yet Abel talks of virtu...
...Howe and others already know, I care less than nothing for Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr, and Andrew Jackson...
...Coser claims him to be, how explain the appeal of the LaRouche movement to some of the best trained and most intelligent of American youth...
...To my way of thinking, there was nothing outrageous about Silone's comparative judgment of the two dictators as against a democratic politician...
...On the basis of a block-by-block, name-by-name canvass and recanvass of individual voters precommitted to my candidacy, about 17 percent of the New Hampshire Democratic primary vote is attributed to me on a namebyname basis...
...Taken together, these two sentences show that Abel has relied large on lying, malicious gossip conduited from discredited circles proximate to the notorious former Senator Joseph McCarthy aide Roy Cohn...
...Any journalist or other writer assigned to cover my campaign would have relied chiefly on the coverage of my campaign in the national semiweekly newspaper New Solidarity, in which my campaign advertised repeatedly all upcoming nationwide television appearances, as well as many of the principal local television appearances...
...Coser says that it is "morally outrageous" of me to assert that LaRouche is intellectually superior to the recent Democratic and Republican candidates for the presidency...
...Moreover, progress in that aspect of physics research has benefited most considerably our study of improved conceptions of elliptic functions applicable to computer-based analysis and forecasting applying the LaRouche-Riemann Model to whole economies...
...Quite frankly, I cannot understand them...
...In France, in what survives of the old Neoplatonist tradition of Catholic West Germany, among India's elites, and so forth, the situation is different...
...Since there are economists among the members of Dissent's editorial community, that part of the community, at least, knows that I represent something more than a continuation of the "American System" politicaleconomy of Hamilton, Carey, and List...
...Coser's feeling for the political is as deficient as his feeling for language and logic...
...One thing does puzzle me, though...
...This is in paradoxical contrast to the state of affairs among the British elites...
...Abel's article was composed on the basis of something equivalent to a file handed to him...
...This discussion is now closed...
...He is not only a beautiful personality, but represents a sound outlook for Middle East peace—notwithstanding his personal regard for Henry Kissinger, Bernard Lewis, and Zbigniew Brzezinski...
...The only outrage I can see here is the one done to language by Mr...
...Nor has my associates' exposure of the financial side of the estimated $200-billions-plus international drug traffic found me new friends among those identified circles...
...Coser in his ludicrous use of the word "moral...
...Such conduct is in the order of things...
...If that be so, one wishes that such excitement had been spared us...
...If he is a master of concepts so were Hitler and Goebbels...
...If you're going to take that line," Chiaromonte replied, "then you'll have to put Mussolini above both of them...
...Why leave just the readers of Dissent in doubt about what he is so intent on repeating in his various publications...
...In addition, I find it morally outrageous to compare politicians, for none of whom I have particular regard but who are committed to democratic principle, to a fascist totalitarian anti-Semite on grounds of his alleged superior intelligence...
...How could people with that background" (referring to his ill-informed version of the political history of me and my immediate associates) "have come all the way around to what has been called by Dennis King in Our Town a 'neo-Nazi' outlook...
...Coser's comment, is badly put...
...In a paper on LaRouche ("Our First Serious Fascist," Dissent, Fall 1980) he overestimates the intellectual qualities of this anti-Semitic mystagogue in a preposterous manner while at the same time failing to realize the seriousness of the fascist movement that LaRouche has created mainly through the infiltration of his followers in a variety of strategic locations...
...Abel's borrowing of the scurrilous "neo-Nazi" premise from the orbit of Roy Cohn serves to divert the debate away from those important differences our two points of view ought to be fighting out...
...I judge it intolerably dangerous to risk the process of building entirely new political institutions out of the general disorder, the uncertain chaos of allowing the ongoing shattering of the Democratic party to continue...
...I represent such predicates of my own philosophical outlook as continued economic growth through promotion of sciences and technological progress, which means building on traditional values of family household, and clearheaded technological individual achievement...
...LaRouche and his followers have gathered considerable sums of money from individual contributors as well as from Presidential Primary Matching Payments amounting to over $400,000...
...Now I did not say that I had heard all of them...
...My proposal was immediately taken up with great interest by leading circles of numerous emerging nations, as well as among European bankers and others...
...political life is to focus efforts on strengthening the viable features of existing political and other institutions...
...Both Jerry Brown and John B. Anderson, like Jimmy Carter in 1976, reflect the growth and consolidation of an irrationalist, charismatic social ferment centered around the theme of "The Age of Aquarius...
...Since when has it been immoral to be mistaken in one's judgment...
...What I do say is that he's more interesting than the democrat De Gaspari...
...If you can believe this, as the Duke of Wellington said on quite another occasion, you can believe anything...
...There is no need to go on...
...My actual and potential constituency is directly opposite to that of Brown's and Anderson's...
...I may be wrong in thinking Mr...
...Within the international scientific community, my associates and I have come to play a contributing part in the efforts to advance control of thermonuclear fusion by resurrecting neglected features of the development of differential equations, such as the work of Legendre and Riemann, in connection with solutions to problems of isentropic compression...
...From then to the present date, I have been a vigorous supporter of the new monetary system—and have incurred as my enemies those who have come to hate President Giscard and Chancellor Schmidt on account of this and related issues...
...Will it also be an insult of Machiavelli to say—I have said this, too— that Hitler and Mussolini had virtu...
...Irving Howe and others would accept the stipulation that their views lie within the range of what scholarship identifies as "British philosophical radicalism...
...He outpolled Jerry Brown in Connecticut by some 1,000 votes and gained 36,000 votes in Ohio and more than 70,000 in California...
...The gifted (chiefly youthful) personalities who became closely associated with me through their agreement with that Riemannian critique of Marx's system define the now-matured international network of American System-oriented Neoplatonic republicans among whom I continue to be primus inter pares today...
...And he accuses me of insulting the memory of "the great Italian thinker" Machiavelli by suggesting that LaRouche has virtu, that is to say, "toughness" of spirit...
...As for Dissent itself, it is merely moot to speculate whether or not more than one or two members of Dissent's editorial community might be won over to my political-philosophical outlook...
...The affidavit explains how the financier interests associated with the Anglo-Canadian Order were going to divert the attack of LaRouche and his associates from their own door by directing elements of Zionist organizations to conduct a diversionary attack on LaRouche as "anti-Semitic...
...If Mr...
...My public support for Nahum Goldmann's proposals has increased the hatred against me from the faction of Israeli intelligence which deploys the Jewish Defense League...
...In effect, whether wittingly or not, Abel has crawled into bed with the notorious Roy Cohn...
...Abel's cited authority, Our Town contributor Dennis King, usually regarded as a creature burdened with empyreal qualities of probity...
...Cohn's adversaries around the New York City Village Voice...
...In a few television appearances (as a candidate for the presidency in 1976, and once again this year, in the New Hampshire primary...
...But why is it morally outrageous to say this if that is indeed what I think...
...Now as to Lewis Coser's remarks...
...After LaRouche's outfit decided to enter the Democratic primaries, he received some 170,000 votes in 14 of them...
...So, my attacks on candidate George Bush and his backers on the Trilateral Commission issue played a decisive part in shaping the margin of Reagan's victory in New Hampshire, and hence, his securing the nomination through the reconsolidated momentum developed in that first primary...
...Coser asks, "How would Abel react if someone were to argue about the intellectual superiority of Goebbels or Goering over the Social Democratic leaders of the Weimar Republic...
...It seems quite possible, if not likely, that LaRouche might be able to do better in the parlous state of the nation that is likely to follow this year's dismal election...
...What happens then, as has occurred in all major perceived social-political crises of this century to date, is that new political currents and institutions emerge, defining a kind of double-counterpoint in contrast to the persistence of formerly habituated, weakened political labels and institutions...
...You won't find me objecting," said Silone...
...I debated LaRouche a few years ago, in the days when he still belonged to the kooky left and before he moved to the fascist right, and found him to be a raving paranoid of medium intelligence who felt himself surrounded by a variety of conspiracies led...
...As Mr...
...The cumulative effects of more than four nationwide half-hour television addresses were cumulative influence, mounting recognition, and cumulative credibility...
...The few I did hear were quite sufficient to make the judgment of him I made...
...Abel Does Not Represent Dissent's Interest IT IS emphatically true, of course, that Dissent and I represent opposing political-philosophical viewpoints...
...People are significantly governed in their judgments and behavior by the influence of such philosophical tendencies, but even while acting under such influences would usually deny that such a comprehensible distinction as a "philosophical tendency" might be adduced from their conduct...
...In respect to myself, I have observed that among nominally better-educated Americans, only my Jesuit opponents and some among their, unfortunately, rarer Augustinian adversaries have manifested any real comprehension of my underlying, and ultimately governing dedications and outlook...
...The Italian socialist and antifascist was a most engaging conversationalist, and that night at the dinner table, he regaled us with stories about the Yugoslavian dictator Tito...
...Despite Americans' habituated tendency to align in support of or opposition to such postures on the basis of such meaningless labelings as "conservative," "liberal," and so forth, a period of deepening crisis brings such mere labels into increasing discredit...
...has shown over the Democratic and Republican candidates for the presidency...
...I may be wrong in my judgment, but why does this mean I should apologize to the "great Italian '.thinker" who saw virtu in the infamous poisoner Cesare Borgia...
...He alleges that my associates and I have made specific characterizations of a variety of persons including Henry Kissinger, Isaac Newton, and David Hume, all without any supporting documentation...
...The willful fraud of Abel's conduct in such isolable features of his article is coherent with the character of the article as a whole...
...Besides, the Rev...
...That is the most glaring among a series of familar sorts of frauds permeating Abel's article as a whole...
...This qualification was enhanced in a crucial way by the cross-over of Republican Negroes to the Democratic party from the time of the Al Smith candidacy onward...
Vol. 28 • January 1981 • No. 1
