It had elements of racism and anti- semitism, yes. I cannot recall how central they were, though. The main thing was that they exaggerated the Communist conspiracy, going so far as to suggest that Eisenhower was a Communist, and calling for his impeachment on those grounds. They also had a tendency to mimic the Communists by hiding membership, establishing fronts, and trying to take over control of school boards and such. They were pro- censorship, to an absurd point, for example, wanting to get rid of certain books because their illustrators had been accused of Leftism.
Eventually, they developed a really wiggy theory of how international capitalism and international communism worked hand in glove against US sovereignty, through the machinations of the "Insiders", from the Tri- Lateral Commission to the Politburo. Although not explicitly anti- semitic, it tended to resemble the idea that the Jews, who were both financiers and revolutionaries, secretly worked together to undermine the West, and, in line with that, obviously Jewish figures, or names that could be mistaken for Jewish were emphasized among the "Insiders".
Let me see if I can get some more, this has been from memory, and I have not read much about them in years....... |
