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119 - The Weird Return Of The LaRouche Cult & Ron Desantis To Announce ft. Donald Parkinson

Left Reckoning

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The Marxists and the CIA

Until 1976, until 1976, I'd say they still do kind of portray themselves as a Marxist group. It's just that they're like, you know, trying to save America from deindustrialization. They started working up with hooking up with Willis Cardo of the Liberty lobby and other far right people. And this is a way for LaRouche to kind of build his connections with basically in the Reagan administration or hardline cold warriors. He has this idea that we need to ally with productive capitalism to promote growth against finance capital. So he starts recruiting scientists to work on fusion energy through his foundation. Later on, this gives him an end with the Reagan administration because, you

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