Abel’s Exegesis from Malicious Gossip

There is no contemporary figure of international public life more closely associated with a thorough, rigorously elaborated political economy than I am. Hence when Lionel Abel writes [in Dissent, Fall 1980], “… the lack of foundation for LaRouche’s position in some theory of political economy,” we have in such a statement adequate, conclusive proof that his opinions on LaRouche as a whole are not only fraudulent, but willfully fraudulent.

That is the most glaring among a series of familiar sorts of frauds permeating Abel’s article as a whole. He alleges that my associates and I have made specific characterizations of a variety of persons including Henry Kissinger, Isaac Newton, and David Hume...