Lionel Abel Replies

Lionel Abel Replies

The two replies to my piece on Lyndon LaRouche, one by Mr. LaRouche himself, the other by Lewis Coser, are on about the same intellectual level: both writers evidently prefer name-calling to reasoned argument. I must add here that Lewis Coser has had the bad taste to remind me and my readers that I am a Jew, as if in my piece I had not taken note of the fact.

First I must consider Mr. LaRouche’s comments. He has certainly not disproved my suggestion that his political deliverances are tilted, in style and substance, toward a kind of fascism; but by his answer he has raised some doubt in me that he is serious in whatever he is doing or thinks he is doing. I suggested that he is a fascist and his reply is that I have obviously not heard all his television broadcasts. Now I did not say that I had heard all of them. The few I did hear were quite sufficient to make the judgment of him I made. To my quotations from his book, which indicate the zest and virulence...


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