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Sear Nak to NCLC and then put himself and his followers under the political leadership of LaRouche.In 1974 NCLC was not attracting “organic progres- sive leaders ” from the welfare rights movement, as claimed by the Newmanites. In fact, it was having trouble attracting significant Black support at all, since it was leading a successful attempt to destroy the Black-led National Welfare Rights Organization and defame its popular leader, the late George Wiley. During the same period, LaRouche also propounded ideas which were widely perceived to represent outright racism. LaRouche, for in- stance, offended the Hispanic community in a November, 1973 essay (published in both English and Spanish) titled “The Male Impotence of the Puerto-Rican Socialist Party.” An internal memo by LaRouche asked “Can we imagine anything more viciously sadistic than the Black Ghetto mother?” He described the majority of the Chinese people as “approximating the lower animal species” by manifesting a “paranoid per- sonality....a parallel general form of fundamental distinction from actual human personalities.” As early as the spring of 1973 LaRouche had begun to articulate a psychosexual theory of politi- cal organizing and began descending into a paranoid style of historical analysis that stressed not Marxist dialectical materialism and class analysis, but macabre conspiracy theorics and a of a gidbal plot by the CLA/KGB to kidnap and program his membership to assassinate him. His homophobia became a central theme of the organization’s conspiracy theories. He said women’s feelings of degradation in modern society could be traced to the physical placement of sexual organs near the anus which caused them to confuse sex with excretion. A September, 1973 editorial in the NCLC ideological journal Campaigner charged that “Concretely, alfacross the USA., there are workers who are prepared to fight. They are held ug wall i Rouche propounded the stattling and sexist impotence, both male and female, is the mother.” LaRouche claimed only he could cure the politi- & cal and sexual impotence of his followers. NCLC members were forced into what was called psychological therapy and “deprogramming” but were what former members call “brainwashing” and “ego-stripping” sessions. The NCLC rapidly became totalitarian in style, with a pecibiar obses- sion with sexuality and homophobia used as a weapon against internal dissent. “To the extent that my physical powers do not prevent me,” La- Rouche told his followers in August, 1973, “I am. now confident and capable of ending your politi- cal—and sexual — impotence; the two are inter- connected aspects of the same problem.” By 1974 LaRouche had started his swing toward Fascist economic and political principles — well before Newman and his followers joined NCLC and announced that they would place themselves under LaRouché's political leadership and “hegemony.” It was during this period that LaRouche began talking of the need for rapid in- dustrialization to build the working class. He talked of a historic tactical alliance between revolutionaries, the working class and the forces of industrial capital against the forces of finance capital. He began developing an authoritarian world view with a glorification of historic mission, metaphysical commitment and physical confron- tation. He told reporters that only he was capable of bringing revolution and socialism to the United States, and his speeches began to take on the tone and style of a demagogue. LaRouche, in short, began to adopt the same ideas and styles which had formed the basis of National Socialism, a political tendency that historically became part of the European fascist movement and eventually played a key role in Hitler’s rise to power in Nazi Germany. In fact, LaRouche was denounced as a Nazi by U.S. Communists following physical at- tacks on them in 1973 by NCLC members who were likened to Hitler’s violent Brownshirts. From May to September of 1973, LaRouche followers engaged in “Operation Mop-up” which consisted of NCLC members brutally assaulting rivals such as members of the Communist Party (SWP). NCLC thugs used bats, chains, and mar- tial arts weapons (numchukas) in their campaign to control and establish “hegemony” over the American revolutionary movement. There were Ciouds Biur the Rainbow - 5