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A note on Lyndon LaRouche (1922-2019), an evasive political cult figure whose name came up in state politics a few years ago. You may notice certain parallels with figures better known to you. ~~ Ron</div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Lyndon LaRouche’s March to Nowhere</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The crises and anxieties of our age gave Lyndon LaRouche a lot of material to work with, to create his theories and control his followers. Now, his aimless and contorted reign has come to an end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">An international political tendency that first began to crystallize some fifty years ago is most likely coming to a close: the movement created by by the self-proclaimed genius and elder statesman
Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr, who died Tuesday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">The seeds of LaRouche’s “movement” first took root in New York City and Philadelphia in the mid-1960s, when student radicals began to attend courses on Marxist economic theory by a lecturer
known as Lyn Marcus. This had been LaRouche’s pen name for many years in the Trotskyist movement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">It has often been said that the pseudonym derives from “Lenin Marx,” though there is no evidence for this, and “Lyn” is simply a familiar contraction of his first name. LaRouche joined the Socialist Workers Party in
Boston in 1949 and remained in it until 1965. Throughout his years of membership LaRouche followed in his father’s footsteps as a “time-motion” (efficiency) engineer hired to speed up production on assembly lines; he also worked as a consultant to companies
on how to use computers to manage their accounts. His work left LaRouche plenty of time to write letters and documents on Marxist theory. The Trotskyist leadership seems to have ignored him, and various accounts by longtime members suggest that he was regarded
as peculiar or perhaps mentally unbalanced.</span></div>
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