Archive/File: larouche larouche.016 Last-modified: 1993/05/06 XRef: index larouche, larouche larouche.ihr But LaRouche's theory of ideological deception also asserts something more subtle. Through ambiguity and code words, it's possible to appeal to the reader or listener's "preconscious mind" and thus lead him gradually into ideas his conscious mind would otherwise reject. So when LaRouche wrote in 1979 about "Machiavelli's" success in outwitting the "donkey censors," the word "censor" was actually a pun referring both to political censors and to the censor (superego) of Freudian theory. A 1986 LaRouchian article, signed by none other than "Machiavelli," made this point clearly: Euphemisms or code words are "an artificial mechanism to avoid the moral shock of facing bestiality in its most degenerate forms." Although the author portrayed this as a method used by oligarchs rather than his favored humanists, the basic principle was in fact used by LaRouche in the mid-1970s to instill fascist ideas in his leftist followers. As most of them feared and loathed fascism, LaRouche could never have won them over without code words and ambiguity to short-circuit the moral shock they would have experienced if he had spoken frankly. LaRouche was aware of what he was doing. "Words and syntactical forms," he wrote, have customary meanings. to elicit something _beyond_ those customary meanings, to express an idea that is "genuinely new," one must add "a new meaning" - however subtle - to the "existing medium." LaRouche made this observation in 'The Case of Walter Lippman' (1977), which gave new meanings to many "customary" terms. For instance, "republican" was used over and over to mean "fascist." 'Lippmann,' LaRouche's major theoretical work, also abounded in multileveled puns to slyly suggest various fascist and anti-Semitic ideas. For instance, LaRouche referred to the oligarchy as "nominalists." Nominalism was the medieval precursor of modern empiricism. For LaRouche, it is a synonym for "materialism" - the philosophy that anti-Semites accuse Jews of having developed as a weapon against Christianity and Aryanism. LaRouche's nominalism also designates material values - the alleged money consciousness of the Jews and the alleged "bestial heteronomy" of the masses. On a deeper level the term refers to the "nominal Jews" - the "Jews who are not Jews." In addition, since the nominalist philosophy was closely associated with scholastic philosophers from England (especially William of Occam), LaRouche can use it to cross-reference his favorite anti-Semitic euphemisms: "British" and "British empiricist." Such puns aside, LaRouche has good reason to hate nominalism: It is aw philosophy that argues that words are only signs for things and have no independent existence - it thus stands opposed to LaRouche's semantic tricks. ... Former LaRouche followers believe that the planting of code terms in NCLC publications is a means of signaling old-style fascists around the world (the "old humanist networks," as some LaRouchians call them) that the NCLC is sympathetic to their aims. One way this is done is by using occult buzzwords like "Atlantis" and "Thule" to allude to the Aryan race and the Third Reich. The practice springs from occult beliefs in Hitler's inner circle. Cryptic references to such beliefs are easily recognized in the secretive world of Western European and South American neo-fascism as well as in U.S. white supremacist circles. LaRouche also has adopted various conspiracy theories of the Nazi and pre-Nazi era long forgotten by everyone outside of hard-core anti-Semitic circles. He uses these theories in a sly form, referring to the "Babylonians" and the "British" rather than the Jews. This is not just sending signals; it is LaRouche's version of what he calls the Renaissance intelligence "codes." It enables him to evade the "donkey censor" to discuss in print the core theories of Nazism: that the Jews are the ancient enemy of the human race, that they are a separate biological entity, and that they must be crushed in a final cataclysmic stuggle. Through this code language, he is able to promote a neo-Nazi ideology in all but name yet remain sufficiently respectable to gain meetings with high-level Reagan administration aides and raise tens of millions of dollars a year from elderly conservatives. LaRouche has shown his fellow fascists around the world how to have your cake and eat it too. (King, 271-272) Work Cited King, Dennis. Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism. New York: Doubleday, 1989