Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeft Radio.

On today's episode I have on Donald Parkinson from Cosmonaut magazine to talk about the historical

figure known as Lyndon LaRouche.

This was a person who ostensibly started off on the left as a trotskiist and over time

created an organization that became increasingly recurrest, increasingly cultist and ultimately

explicitly reactionary and right wing.

And so Donald and I kind of trace the trajectory of LaRouche's political career in his organization

and we draw lessons on it for today because today in the left wing socialist ecosystem

if you will we're increasingly seeing this attempt by some revisionist M.L.s I guess

to try to do many of the same things that Lyndon LaRouche and his organization tried to

do decades ago.

This embrace of showvendism, this embrace of patriotism, this attailing conservative social

views, this sort of reductionist, economic workurism, it's all kind of here and I think

it's an incredibly important historical lesson for the left to learn today.

Because if you've been on the left for the last several years you've actually probably

seen left wing cults emerge and so as I mentioned in this episode it's absolutely fascinating

to go back throughout history, to see left wing cults in the past and then to live through

a period of time in which you can watch in real time as they emerge you know spin out

and dissolve in various ways.

And so it's a fascinating and timely and important discussion.

So without further ado here's my conversation with Donald Parkinson on Lyndon LaRouche.

Enjoy.

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