Re: [Marxism] question for the experts on fascism,

[nada <dwaltersMIA@xxxxxxxxx>]

Christine's questions raised some interesting issues.

Just on the Larouche angle. As you know, Larouche has been accused by 
many Larouche-watchers as being anti-Semitic. There is *some* truth in 
this. They, of course, deny this.

Larouche has at times described Judaism as a "failed cult of nomadic 
desert monotheists" or some such thing that I had read years ago. He 
uses the term "Jew" in the "Woody Alan" sense as an accusation of sorts. 
At the same time, I've read some rather fascinating and even 
enlightening essays by him and his supporters glorifying the modern 
secular Judaism of Moses Mendelssohn, the famous German-Jewish 
philosopher of the 18th century. They recently wrote a glowing essay on 
Shalom Aleichem and the "Renaissance of Yiddish". (I have a lot time on 
my hands so I generally read everything and anything of interest to me).

The Larouche group, formally known as the "Larouche Political Action 
Committee" or LPAC, takes a technically "anti-Zionist" position but it 
is more historical in the sense they think Zionism was a British plot 
(which, to a certain degree it was) because everything they oppose is 
based on opposition to the "The British" as the root of all evil 
(really, everything British is 'bad' to them). But they don't oppose the 
Zionist state now and, of course, the concept of the oppression of 
Palestinians is beyond their comprehension.

D.

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