{"id":4051,"date":"2009-05-31T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T21:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=4051"},"modified":"2009-05-31T14:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T21:27:00","slug":"whiffs-of-earl-browder-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/05\/31\/whiffs-of-earl-browder-past\/","title":{"rendered":"whiffs of Earl Browder Past"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unless the so-called health-care reforms presently proposed by President Obama are prevented, all talk of civil rights were an ugly farce in the tradition of Adolf Hitler’s Tiergarten-4.<\/em><\/p>\n

Obama\u00c2\u00a0= Hitler.\u00c2\u00a0 Why, we even have the image of Obama with the mustache to work with!<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 A pretty awesome turn, albeit one to a spot he was in beforehand.\u00c2\u00a0 But who cares what Lyndon Larouche has to say, really?\u00c2\u00a0 I’m more interested in reading old Communist Party, USA pamphlets showing what Earl Browder had to say about things!<\/p>\n

First of all, the question of literature to the masses.\u00c2\u00a0 In the first principle of Party defense that I spoke of — going to the masses — the most important role is played by mass literature.\u00c2\u00a0 We have made certain definite improvements in this respect in the last six months.\u00c2\u00a0 During this period, we have distributed more pamphlets than in any previous year in our Party’s history.
\nThat is an improvement.\u00c2\u00a0 But can we say that this measures up to the possibilities of the situation, especially in the circulation of one-cent and two-cent pamphlets?\u00c2\u00a0 I think that in an historical moment in which the enemy is making Coummunism and the Communist Party the central issue in the life of the Country we must admit that with better organization of our work, we can multiply the present distribution of pamphlets, especially cheap pamphlets; for these mass popular pamphlets are precisely the sharpest weapons we have for influencing the masses and through the masses, the actual course of events in the history of our country and of the world.
\nThis emphasis upon literature should not be taken to mean neglect of mass meetings.\u00c2\u00a0 Mass meetings become more important than ever, although through mass meetings we can never reach as broad a<\/em><\/p>\n

But now I’m already a little bored of Earl Browder.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m having trouble with this one — was this hawked on street corners in the days of 1940?\u00c2\u00a0 Who would be interested in reading Earl Browder’s discussion of internal Communist Party, USA matters?\u00c2\u00a0 As opposed to, I suppose, his realignment on that thing which caused many a splinter in the Communist Party — The Finnish Question — which as Orwellian as this be, at least figures into actual world policy matters:<\/p>\n

Well, we don’t need to go today into all the details of the gigantic conspiracy, this grandiose effort of the world bourgeoisie to turn its forces to the crushing of the Soviet Union<\/span>.\u00c2\u00a0 Suffice it to say that all of these enormous efforts and these grandiose diabolical schemes come to wreck.\u00c2\u00a0 They come to wreck on the Bolshevik vigilance of the Soviet Worker, of their Party, and above all, of their great leader, our Lenin of today, Comrade Stalin.<\/p>\n

As Comrade Foster mentioned in opening this meeting, the military news from Finland<\/span> this morning indicates that the process of the liberation of the Finnish people from their forcibly imposed role of puppets for World Imperialism is well under way.\u00c2\u00a0 We can expect that it will not be long now when a free Finland will work out her own destiny in close friendship and collaboration with the Soviet Union.<\/em><\/p>\n

Memoirs of assorted Communist members of the time tell of their befuddled confusion<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0in accepting this tripe, a gasp of air\u00c2\u00a0that was not released until the line switched back to the\u00c2\u00a0struggle against\u00c2\u00a0Adolf Hitler and Fascism — where FDR was once again a hero.\u00c2\u00a0 But that’s neither here nor there.\u00c2\u00a0 Let’s ponder what’s now being pumped out of LPAC:<\/p>\n

At this moment, the President and a selected cabal of his associates are conducting a series of meetings with such as select members of the U.S. Congress, in the attempt to ram such Hitler-like policies through as U.S. Federal statutes, before the generality of the population could be alerted to the intentional crimes against humanity being presently promoted from relevant circles inside the Obama administration.
\n<\/em><\/span>Stop that horror while you can! Do not wait, as the German population did.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

And to think, once upon a time they were using Obama campaign organizing websites\u00c2\u00a0for their own\u00c2\u00a0organizational tool<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I suppose those days are over. \u00c2\u00a0AND… Can somebody do me a favor and look through the 200-some comments here<\/a> and see if a “Laroucheistruth” or a (smirk) “Alexandar Hamilton”\u00c2\u00a0pops in for a spell?<\/p>\n

Anyway….\u00c2\u00a0 It is a bit interesting that the Larouchies, as shown in their continued wikipedia edit attempts, are hanging their hat on supposed reverence found in Russia,\u00c2\u00a0attempting to keep in the lede a “Validator”\u00c2\u00a0of Stanislav Menshikov<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0I suppose you’d want to know that the wikipedia editing confuberation over Stanislav_Menshikov<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0continues apace.\u00c2\u00a0 Judging by the voting, it appears that this Stanislav Menshikov article will be kept<\/a>, meaning not a whole awful lot for me, and only this for the Larouchian editors at wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Here’s my two cents: The Heritage Foundation comment seems fairly representative of commentary about LaRouche in the US, while the Menshikov comment seems representative of (especially recent) commentary about LaRouche elsewhere, especially in Russia where his fans seem to have more access to media organs. —<\/em>Leatherstocking<\/em> (<\/em>talk<\/em>) 16:03, 23 May 2009 (UTC)<\/em><\/p>\n

“Huge in Russia”, which for the LYM and Boomer faitful is what they’re going to hang their hat on to make up for not being Huge in the USA — or, I guess, for being hidden by the Dutch — Anglo Elites.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Remind me to go back to the news database, look up the “BBC Monitoring Service” for media of former Soviet countries (including Russia), and check to see if there is any mention of Larouche was not then dutifully re-reported by the LPAC clattering keyboardists.\u00c2\u00a0 IE:\u00c2\u00a0 That’s about the extent of “influence” in Russia — Menshikov, references\u00c2\u00a0in regards to Georgia\u00c2\u00a0— and most surreally, that recent LPAC release reporting on Russian Blog Coverage.
\nAt least with Earl Browder, his movement was indeed Huge in Russia — and was indeed politically squashed in the USA.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Incidentally, as the LYMers adjust to their new line, I need to point out how off this item is<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Avoid Lyndon LaRouche the same way you would avoid a cliche, or the plague. While the rumors that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfascist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 may be false, the rumors that quoting LaRouche will help you score with chicks are definitely not true.<\/em><\/p>\n

We’ve already established that the Larouchies are an Anti-Sex Cult<\/a>, so these rumors are null and void, and indeed that blog post will now be used as a Recruitment Tool.<\/p>\n

(In other news:\u00c2\u00a0 I once upon a time linked to this blog, which was a new blog set up by the leader of the “Larouche Cryonics Movement.”\u00c2\u00a0 It appears he’s made it a Private Party<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Go figure.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t know how he’s going to increase the size of his movement that way, but to each their own.)<\/p>\n

And from Dennis King’s website<\/a>:
\nAnd this first edition of Dope, Inc. in which the infamous Protocols forgery is described as the authentic minutes of a Paris “Order of Zion” meeting, is today being promoted on the website of the LaRouche Youth Movement, a cadre formation founded circa 2001 that is recruiting aggressively on college campuses throughout the United States with little opposition from Hillel or anyone else.
\n<\/em>Hillel I never heard of until I googled just now — okay, it’s a Campus Jewish\u00c2\u00a0Group.\u00c2\u00a0 But, for what it’s worth, a Socialist Group picketed and pamphletered the recent Connecticut collge professor Norton Mezvinsky sponsored speaking engagement<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I can’t say I’m terribly impressed, but I’m not sure what to be impressed by.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unless the so-called health-care reforms presently proposed by President Obama are prevented, all talk of civil rights were an ugly farce in the tradition of Adolf Hitler’s Tiergarten-4. Obama\u00c2\u00a0= Hitler.\u00c2\u00a0 Why, we even have the image of Obama with the mustache to work with!\u00c2\u00a0 A pretty awesome turn, albeit one to a spot he was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-larouche-challenge","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4051"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4069,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051\/revisions\/4069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}