Among other things, LaRouche the ex-Trotskyite now claimed that the US faced a conspiratorial attack from communists. If you’re assuming he meant some kind of sneaky influence from China, Cuba or the Soviet Union, then you’d only be partially right. For behind the facade of these sovereign states, he reasoned, lay a bigger plot brought about by a more sinister bunch: the Jewish International Conspiracy.

What led him to this conclusion? Hmm.

LaRouche manifest this brand of bigotry in vicious diatribes against Henry Kissinger and other prominent Jews at first, but it later extended to all Jewish institutions including the B’nai B’rith, the ADL and the state of Israel. In their organizational magazine New Solidarity, he described Jews as “a subhuman oligarchical species.” In an article titled “The Case of Ludwig Fuerbach,” he wrote:

Judaism is the religion of a caste of subjects of Christianity, entirely molded by ingenious rabbis to fit into the ideological and secular life of Christianity. In short, a self-sustaining Judaism never existed and never could exist.

Of course, the above makes you wonder how Judaism sustained itself for 1,500 years before Christianity.

When LaRouche began downplaying the Holocaust, it would end all doubt that his organization was courting such fascistic segments of the population as the KKK and other racist extremists.

Strangely, one-fourth of the NCLC was, like the aforementioned Linda Ray, Jewish. Still, members feared the new deprogramming efforts too much to complain. Some Jewish LaRouchies even went so far as to help promote the orgainization's new anti-Semitic line. LaRouche, in turn, pointed to their membership as proof that the NCLC wasn’t simply a bunch of bigoted baboons. Still, individual members found themselves surrounded by Jewish jokes and other bashing. Some, like Robert Cohen and Paul Goldstein griped, naturally. That only made them targets for ‘persuasion’ to correct thinking under the whip of LaRouche’s third wife, Helga Zepp, a native of Wiesbaden, Germany who bluntly claimed that the persecution of Jews during WWII was a hoax.

While there are said to be people of color within the organization (I haven’t met any, but they claim there are--I’ll take their word on that for the time being), the same types of strategies seem to apply, particularly in the US. While claiming to champion the cause of minorities, they bitterly attacked prominent Blacks, Latinos and Asians when they acted independently. When, in 1973, organizer Leroy Jones (aka Amiri Imamu Baraka) advocated community-based action in order to change urban policy, LaRouche supporters made unsubstantiated accusations that his, and other movements within decaying US cities had been backed financially by Wall Street corporations, and that Baraka and others like him were stooges of British/Jewish/communist mind control. As the NCLC put it, black leaders who disrespected LaRouche wore the “Tavistock Grin.”

As he did to Jewish members, LaRouche held up African Americans in his organization in order to show his commitment to diversity and inclusiveness, but quickly kicked them to the curb if the presented problems. One FactNet poster related an example of this in the treatment of a woman referred to only by the initial ‘S.,’ a one-time successful moneymaking fundraiser from the Chicago office who accompanied Zepp on a number of shopping trips:

No matter how ‘special’ S thought she was to Helga, she was only as good as the next ‘Special’ the phone team was bringing in. Once that well dried up, S dried up. S was also another boomer victim of the cult. At one time S was on top of the world and was put on the National Committee, a pretty big deal if you are into the cult. But, it all came tumbling down as once the income figures dropped, Lyn noticed and that was that. Eventually S was babysitting other members' kids.

All-told, it seems clear that LaRouche and his organization actively sought and used Jews and Blacks in order to deflect charges of racism and anti-Semitism. But open contempt for non-“Aryan” civilization, and coded language that attacked "inferior" civilizations, indicated that his vision of cultural purity was tantamount to racial purity.