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Views of the political affiliation of LaRouche and the LaRouche movement after the late 1970s.


Right[edit]

Sources that describe LaRouche or the movement as being on the "political right" or similar terms

Scholars & academic presses[edit]

  • ... a bizarre right-wing cult--the U.S. Labor Party--led by Lyndon LaRouche. p.93
  • LaRouche's own political odyssey has been an odd one. He began on the Left,.... Then, in 1973, LaRouche swung radically rightward. p.95
    • Weir, David; Noyes, Dan; Center for Investigative Reporting (U.S.) (January 1983). Raising hell: how the Center for Investigative Reporting gets the story. Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. ISBN 9780201108583. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
  • [LaRouche]... had a unique journey to the leadership of a right-wing organization in the United States. p. 358
  • ...this right-wing movement appeals to people with a taste for high culture. p. 359
  • But the Aua of hostility, the rhetoric of violence, and the armed guards that are all part of the LaRouchian style have linked his movement to the uglier brand of right-wing militancy... p. 360
  • La Rouche's right-wing vision of an America led by traitors.... p 362
  • Whereas the collection's best chapters analyze rightists' political origins and significance, editor Leonard Weinberg does the opposite for the United States. He accurately names key racist right players -- Liberty Lobby, the Aryan Nations, Lyndon LaRouche -- but misses the important ways in which they have cohered as a social movement.
    • Political processes and institutions -- Encounters with the Contemporary Radical Right edited by Peter H. Merkl and Leonard Weinberg (book review) Diamond, Sara. Contemporary Sociology. Washington: May 1994. Vol. 23, Iss. 3; pg. 380
  • Two of the far-right's more determined--and in many ways, most successful--forays into the Heartland political arena have been the election campaigns run by followers of the well-known right-wing ideologue Lyndon LaRouche and those... p. 111
  • Within a few short years, the LaRouche group mutated from the left to the ultra-right, embracing a fascist agenda of extreme anticommunism, racism, and antiSemitism...LaRouche's public addresses revealed a bizarre philosophy-a mixture of paranoia, racism, and right-wing ideology.
    • "Black fundamentalism" Manning Marable. Dissent. New York: Spring 1998. Vol. 45, Iss. 2; pg. 69, 8 pgs
  • Some far right groups, including the Liberty Lobby, the John Birch Society, followers of Lyndon LaRouche and independent rightists known for paranoid conspiracy theories (which on some occasions happened to parallel more thoughtful left critiques) joined in with anti-war efforts, and were at times allowed into coalition efforts by those unaware of their anti-Semitic and far right ideologies. The LaRouche Movement had actually developed close ties with Iraq's Ba'ath party, with which it shares an essentially fascist ideology.9 These alliances harmed the credibility of the peace movement.
    • The American peace movement and the Middle East Stephen Zunes. Arab Studies Quarterly. Belmont: Winter 1998. Vol. 20, Iss. 1; pg. 29, 23 pgs
  • The import of racist-Right ideas into Australia occurred long before the Internet became a major warehouse of international hate. Usually but not always these, newcomers have had an American parentage. There can be no greater example of this than the Citizens’ Electoral Council (hereafter CEC). [..] As a Lyndon LaRouche clone, the CEC hit the road down-under at a full run, well cashed up. It has positioned itself to challenge the League’s primacy in the extreme Right. [..] Unlike others in the extreme Right family such as the League which eschews overt party political action,1 the CEC does masquerade as a political party, not in its own right as such, but as a shopfront for Lyndon LaRouche. [..] As an extreme Right agoraphobe, the CEC... [..] In common with other members of the extreme Right, the CEC has little time for the social ideology of multiculturalism that has gathered support amongst Australians since the early 1970s. [..] While one ought to be cautious not to exaggerate the influence of CEC, it would be equally foolish to dismiss it as an eccentric, flash-in-the-pan Rightwing fringe group which promotes quirky economic ideas, anti-social and politically destabilizing notions and a thoroughly racist platform. The CEC, as with the extreme Rightwing family, thrives on the existential misery of people.
    • Pernicious Vision: Challenge from within: Australia’s Extreme Right. Rodney Gouttman. Australian Journal of Jewish Studies XV [2001]. pp 46-63
  • "Having characteristics common to European fascist organizations but holding recruitment drives that recurrently target the African American and American muslim communities, LaRouche groups can appear to have a bizarre nature to outsiders. The three-dimensional model, though, suggests that while perhaps unusual, LaRouche may nonetheless be understood as a multicultural right-wing centralist, espousing a European model of fascism with global ambitions but also having an inclusive multicultural orientation and membership."
  • It was enlightened Boston, after all, that provided fertile ground for the self-proclaimed "hegemonic fascist," Lyndon LaRouche, to peddle his fables about a centuries-long plot by the Illuminati to take over the world, a "peril" manifested most recently in England's Queen Elizabeth II having assumed the role of head planetary dope dealer.
    • Conspiracy Nation: The Politics of Paranoia in Postwar America Ward Churchill. Contemporary Sociology. Washington: Jan 2003. Vol. 32, Iss. 1; pg. 65, 4 pgs
  • Contrary to Bacevich's intent, one occasionally is left wondering whether he advocates the liberal multilateralism of Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn on the left, or the neo-isolationism of Pat Buchanan and Lyndon LaRouche on the right.
    • AMERICAN HEGEMONY AND AMERICAN PRINCIPLES Paul Carrese. The Review of Politics. Notre Dame: Winter 2004. Vol. 66, Iss. 1; pg. 174, 3 pgs
  • Soros' activities have provoked numerous criticisms from US prohibitionists including rumours of an alleged association with the global drug trade. This absurd accusation seems to emanate from the Lyndon LaRouche group, a far Right American political organisation that peddles anti-Jewish conspiracy theories.
    • Mendes, Philip (Second Quarter 2008). "Zero tolerance or international conspiracy: a critical analysis of the House of Representatives inquiry into illicit drugs". Social Alternatives. 27 (2). Brisbane: 51–56.

Books[edit]

  • Of all the curious manifestations of political thought on the American right, noe is more startling, more Byzantine, more improbale than those advanced by LaRouche's [groups]. p. 24
  • Lyndon LaRouche began his political odyssey from the far left to the far right in the 1940's as part of the Socialist Labor Party and since that time has organized a small but fanatical core group of followers whose influence is felt at every level of America's political process.
  • In switching from communist tendencies n the 1950s and 1960s to alliances with the far right in the 1970s, LaRouce recognized that he would never achieve significant influence within the left,and that on the right, he would gain access to many more potential followers and the wealth of the radical right. Described as a neo-Nazi, a fascist, and a totalitarian, .... p. 29
  • Evan as LaRouche traveled the gamut from far-left to the far-right on the political continuum, his political thrust has always been based on anti-jewish conspiracy theories. p. 30
  • Lyndon LaRouche founded an extremely conservative presidential campaign organization. p. 16
  • During the 1970s he executed a 180-degree shift from left-wing extremism to right-wing extremism,...
    • Conjuring Medical Science: The 1986 Referendum on AIDS/HIV Policy in California CP Toumey - Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
  • [In the 1973-1974 period] ... The remaining members traveled with LaRouche from the extreme left to the extreme right without even being aware of teh political distance involved. p. 75
  • From 1974 on, the group became increasingly right wing.'p. 75
  • LaRouche's politics became extremely right wing though still populist. p.76
  • But underneath the weirdness lies a far-right world view. p. 6
  • LaRouche swung definitively from the left to the very, very far right. p. 10
  • Socialist feminist leader Clara Fraser attributed LaRouche's swing to the far right to his hysteria over the feminist movement p.18
  • By the early 1970s, however, [Jim Rumley] surfaced in Charlotte, N.C., as a local leader-and candidate for mayor in 1973-of Lyndon LaRouche's National Caucus of Labor Committees, an ideologically volatile "new left" organization, which, in the mid-1970s (by which time Rumley may have left the organization) mutated into an aggressively conservative operation with neo-fascist ties.
    • WHEN COMMUNITY COMES HOME TO ROOST: THE SOUTHERN MILLTOWN AS LOST CAUSE Leon Fink. Journal of Social History. Fairfax: Fall 2006. Vol. 40, Iss. 1; pg. 119, 28 pgs
  • Sawyer created a loose network of followers, many of whom would go on to support Pauline Hanson and other far-right groups such as Lyndon LaRouche's Citizens Electoral Councils.
    • "A step to the (far) right: Peter Sawyer and radical-right politics in contemporary Australia" Journal of Australian Studies Volume 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 135 - 146 Author: Peter Hendersona DOI: 10.1080/14443050801995177 [1]

Other[edit]

  • La Rouche and his organization have migrated from the left to the extreme right in less than a decade.
    • Center for Constitutional Rights (New York; N.Y.) (1977), Docket report, The Center, retrieved 23 May 2011
  • Then, in 1973, LaRouche swung radically rightward.p.30
    • "Teamster Madness: The Fanatics Who Want the Wheel" Mother Jones Magazine Douglas Foster Jan 1982 [2]
  • Unfortunately, Reuther's good name has been misused in recent months by a strange political group led by Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, who once claimed to be a Marxist but who has now swung over to the far right of the political spectrum.
    • International Union; United Automobile; Aircraft (1983), UAW solidarity, UAW, retrieved 23 May 2011 {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Over the years, Lyndon LaRouche who is sixty-two, would appear to have moved from the political left to the political right.
    • Patricia Lynch, "Far left, far right--far out", Columbia Journalism Review March/April 1985 p.44
  • In the 1970s and 1980s, Mr. LaRouche moved rapidly to the far right, campaigning noisily in airports for capitalism, nuclear power, and draconian measures against people with AIDS.
    • "Notebook" The New Republic page 12 NOVEMBER 26.1990
  • If these people were cognizant of LaRouche's fascist tendencies, history of anti-Semitism, and association with right-wing figures, they were willing to overlook them. p. 38
    • Siano, Brian (May 1992), "The Skeptical Eye: Big Head's Back", The Humanist, vol. 52, no. 3
  • [Daniel] Levitas gave a comprehensive history of the extreme Right over the past 20 years, covering Barry Goldwater, the Ku Klux Klan, Lyndon LaRouche...
    • Milner, Jenney; Spiegelman, Donna (Spring/Summer 1992). "Carrying it on: a report from the new Jewish agenda conference on organizing against racism and anti-Semitism". Bridges. p. 139. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  • Aside from advising Oliver Stone, [Colonel L. Fletcher] Prouty has maintained extremely active involvements with other conspiracy-hunters. He has served, for example, as a consultant to Lyndon LaRouche's far-right National Democratic Policy Committee, at a conference of which he provided a presentation comparing the U.S. government's prosecution of LaRouche (for conspiracy and mail fraud) to the prosecution of Socrates; ...
    • "The second coming of Jim Garrison" The Atlantic. Boston: Mar 1993. Vol. 271, Iss. 3; pg. 89, 5 pgs
  • In [Pat] Robertson's book The New World Order, he trumps the Birchers (their founder called Dwight Eisenhower a communist agent) by alluding to an anti-Christian conspiracy that supposedly began in ancient Babylon--a theory that evokes historic anti-Jewish bigotry and resembles the notions of the fascist demagogue Lyndon LaRouche, who is routinely dismissed by the corporate media as a crackpot.
    • "The right rides high" Loretta J. Ross The Progressive. Madison: Oct 1994. Vol. 58, Iss. 10; pg. 22, 8 pgs
  • The "Michigan LaRouche folks" are George Geller and Richard Leebove, ... Both men are former acolytes of Lyndon LaRouche, the nutty fascist (LaRouche once wrote that Jimmy Hoffa's death was ordered by "the international Zionist community"), and although both portray this period as something from their misguided youth, both were deeply involved. Leebove, now a public relations consultant, and Geller, an attorney, both worked for a LaRouche newspaper, for example, that defended the some of labor's worst leaders.
    • Working the Teamsters Hoyt, Mike. Columbia Journalism Review. New York: Jul/Aug 1996. Vol. 35, Iss. 2; pg. 44, 5 pgs


  • While not intending to create a base for anti-government militias, resource industries trying to expand their operations in and around national parks have to take some moral responsibility for the violent extremism they have helped to unleash. For eight years, representatives of the timber industry, the American Farm Bureau Federation, the Cattlemen's Association, the American Mining Congress, and others have shared Wise Use platforms, conferences, and strategies with county supremacists and anti-Indian activists, as well as groups such as the John Birch Society and followers of those who promote a hard right agenda including Lyndon LaRouche and the Rev. Sun Myung Moon. By lending credibility to these extremist groups, industry has aided their recruitment drive.
    • Open hostilities Helvarg, David. National Parks. Washington: Sep/Oct 1996. Vol. 70, Iss. 9-10; pg. 36, 6 pgs


  • Interviewing [Jude] Wanniski for this article, I asked him about his relationship with the right-wing conspiratorialist Lyndon LaRouche. Most people in politics would play down that sort of acquaintanceship. Wanniski happily detailed his efforts to settle his differences with LaRouche through a series of dinner meetings, monomaniac a monomaniac. "The Laffer Curve essentially is what differentiated us," he reports. In other words, the two failed to reach agreement on just one issue, a question on which LaRouche was actually less crazy than Wanniski.
    • Prophet motive Jonathan Chait. The New Republic. Washington: Mar 31, 1997. Vol. 216, Iss. 13; pg. 21, 4 pgs
  • By this time, LaRouche's politics had shifted to the right, and his speeches were fraught with warnings of conspiracy. p.277
  • At a rally in Public Square in downtown Cleveland, Neo-Nazi organizations and ultra right-wing propagandist Lyndon LaRouche supporters passed out slanderous material on the Holocaust and the lewish Defense League.
    • The Historian Fall 2000 v63 i1 p17 "THE JEWISH COMMUNITY'S REACTIONS TO THE JOHN DEMJANJUK TRIALS." -- SHARFMAN, GLENN R.
  • LA DERECHA ULTRA ASISTÉMICA A fines de los 70, estando en plena vigencia esquemas como el Plan Cóndor, Lyndon LaRouche ganó fama y fortuna como ideólogo y artífice de la llamada «Iniciativa de Defensa Estratégica» (IDE), adoptada por ...
    • "30 días en las noticias" Centro de Documentación e Información--Bolivia (Cochabamba, Bolivia) [3]
  • And [Edgar] de Picciotto has also been targeted by such right-wingers as Lyndon Larouche, the American right-winger who's made a fistful of solo runs for the U.S. presidency, who suggested that he was part of an international Jewish group of money manipulators led by Hungarian-born financier George Soros.
    • Banking on Biotech Hanan Sher. The Jerusalem Report. Jerusalem: Jun 4, 2001. pg. 36
  • For instance, the recent experience of the honourable member for Monaro emphasises the need to be vigilant in dealings with extremist groups. Last week he publicly acknowledged that an extreme right-wing group had duped him. It transpired that he had signed an international petition by the Citizens Electoral Council, the Australian wing of the infamous Lyndon LaRouche group from the United States.
    • Extremist Groups. Premier Morris Iemma, speaking in The Parliament of NSW, 25 June 2001 [4]
  • [Ramsey] Clark's dedication to defending unpopular, and even hated, figures has also led him to represent such clients as Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and far-right extremist Lyndon LaRouche.
    • Neighborhood Bully: Ramsey Clark On American Militarism by DERRICK JENSEN AUGUST 2001 | ISSUE 308 THE SUN INTERVIEW [5]
  • A third self-defined prophet whom Mr. Wanniski has courted is Lyndon LaRouche, the anti-Semitic conspiracist and migrant from extreme Left to extreme Right.
    • Wen Ho Lee, Letter to the Editor, Commentary. New York: Sep 2002. Vol. 114, Iss. 2; pg. 3, 8 pgs
  • LaRouche, who ceased using the pseudonym Lyn Marcus (a conscious derivation of Lenin Marx) when he vaulted from the far Left to the far Right, ...
    • "The Neoconservative Cabal" Joshua Muravchik Commentary September 2003 p. 27
  • Nonagenarian Newfoundlander Tom Kierans’s scheme to dike James Bay and pipe water to the US Midwest through the Great Lakes invites a check of the old man’s sanity, and it hardly surprises that right-wing American anti-Semite Lyndon LaRouche is behind a plan to reroute water from the Peace and Liard rivers from northern BC deep into the United States.
    • Melting Point by CHRIS WOOD OCTOBER 2005 The Walrus [6]
  • Only rarely did we YPSL’s encounter other youth groups ready to oppose the New Left, and they were all immoderate themselves: the followers of Sun Myung Moon; the Jewish Defense League; and the cult of Lyndon LaRouche during a brief centrist moment in its peregrination from ultra-Left to ultra-Right.
    • "Comrades" Joshua Muravchik Commentary January 2006 p. 55
  • By 1980, the LaRouche organization had swerved dramatically to the right, working closely with such groups as Willis Carlo's Liberty Lobby and promoting conservative causes like the strategic defense initiative.
    • Publish and Perish Avi Klein. The Washington Monthly. Washington: Nov 2007. Vol. 39, Iss. 11; pg. 21, 7 pgs


News[edit]

  • LaRouche calls himself a Marxist but the actual body of his though to the extent that his ravings about "fear of rats" and the like can be so described, blongs to the radical right, the Nazi fringe. He and his apparently brainwashed acolytes (his methods seem Moon-like) are not interested in dissent or dialogue but in disinformation and disruption, especially of the left. NCLC poses as the purest embodiment of the left but, far from wanting to persuade or co-opt or even to dominate it, it wants to crush the left. The left is its special passion. The syndrome is familiar to anyone who has studied the rise of Hitler.
  • While the philosophy of the U.S. Labor Party has shifted dramatically over the last decade - from its roots in the left-wing student movement of the late 1960's to the cult-like right-wing political organization that it is today - one man has always been central to the party and its policy: its founder, Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr.
    • One Man Leads U.S. Labor Party on Its Erratic Path. NY Times, October 8, 1979 Howard Blum and Paul L. Montgomery
  • Since LaRouche launched his 1980 campaign for President, media interest in his political background has increased. One article published by The Times prior to the New Hampshire primary traced his political career from its leftist origins in the Socialist Workers Party (from 1948 to 1963) to his subsequent founding of the National Caucus of Labor Committees in 1966, which then regarded itself as "an intellectual leftist organization," to a dramatic swing to the right in recent years.
    • A Nuclear Pitch at the Airport WILLIAM OVEREND Los Angeles Times Apr 10,1980; pg.G1
  • But many have left the group over the years as it has gone through sharp twists from the extreme left to the extreme right, reflecting the changes of LaRouche's personal views.
    • LaRouche Trying to Lose Splinter Label ELLEN HUME Los Angeles Times Feb 16, 1980 pg. A20
  • LaRouche, 57, and a native of Rochester, N.H., was formerly named Lyn Marcus. He was a radical left-wing economic, scientific and political theorist who, in 1976, led the formerly left-wing US Labor Party to its current position on the far right of the political spectrum. He is running as a pro- nuclear, pro-economic growth and rabidly antidrug candidate.
    • FRINGE CANDIDATE OR A THREAT?; ; THE LYNDON LAROUCHE CAMPAIGN; Charles Kenney Globe Staff. Boston Globe (pre-1997 Fulltext). Boston, Mass.: Feb 17, 1980. pg. 1
  • For LaRouche - founder of the right-wing US Labor Party - a recount alone will not be enough.
    • IT'S NOT OVER IN N.H. FOR LAROUCHE CAMP; [FIRST Edition] Royal Ford Globe Staff. Boston Globe (pre-1997 Fulltext). Boston, Mass.: Mar 6, 1980. pg. 1
  • ...LaRouche, maximum leader of a fascist political cult... the NCLC's most recent allies are to be found on the nation's reactionary fringe.
    • Village Voice "Mad Melvin: The Cult Candidate". J.C. September 2-8, 1981
  • In the late 1970s, LaRouche and his followers made a short trip around the back side of the ideological circle from far left to far right, but their confrontational tactice never changed.
    • Taylor, Paul; Peterson, Bill (November 25, 1981). "Senator finds an unlikely ally in Abscam fight". Washington Post.
  • The White House confirmed Wednesday that the National Security Council staff and the CIA have held several intelligence debriefings with members of the militantly right-wing organization of Lyndon LaRouche... [LaRouche] has swung from far left to extreme right politically since then and has frequently been accused of anti-Semitism.
    • "U.S. got intelligence aid from rightist group" Chicago Tribune, Storer Rowley Mar 8, 1984 [7]
  • With their upset victories in the Democratic primary in Illinois, the followers of Lyndon H. LaRouche, an eccentric far rightist and anti-Communist who has run for President three times, have penetrated the American political system in a way that few had thought possible.
    • SUPPORTERS OF LaROUCHE ARE WINNING LOCAL BALLOT SPOTS IN GROWING NUMBERS. PHIL GAILEY, Special to the New York Times. New York Times. (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y.: Mar 23, 1986. pg. A.38
  • Such flagrant extremism has come to be expected of the followers of LaRouche, an arch-conservative, anti-communist who has long warned of an international conspiracy involving the Rockefellers, the Ford Foundation, labor unions, Israeli intelligence and Queen Elizabeth II.
    • LAROUCHE ELEMENT IS AN EXTREME CASE; [SPORTS FINAL, C Edition] Patrick Reardon and Kurt Greenbaum. Chicago Tribune (pre-1997 Fulltext). Chicago, Ill.: Mar 20, 1986. pg. 1
  • More recently, as his philosophy has undergone a polar change to right-wing extremism, Mr. LaRouche has revised his description of the early days. For example, a 1974 article in one of his publications said he was briefly attached to the Communist Party International, then became a sort of hardened Trotskyite. Today, Mr. LaRouche says I was never in the Communist Party, adding that I went there a few times, talked to them a few times, and when I found out what they were, departed.
  • During the past 20 years, LaRouche has zig-zagged across the political spectrum from the far right to the far left to a position that some critics call "The Twilight Zone."
    • LAROUCHE FOES IN LOUDOUN HOPE FOR CONVICTION United Press International. Richmond Times - Dispatch. Richmond, Va.: Oct 12, 1987. pg. B-2
  • And it was in this period that he began his remarkable shift from far left to far right -- a change that he vehemently contends does not indicate any change in his personal beliefs, claiming his association with the Socialist Workers Party was only to fight the excesses of Sen. Joseph McCarthy.
    • LaRouche indulges in explosive rhetoric; [1,2 Edition] Don Davis. The San Diego Union. San Diego, Calif.: Jun 3, 1984. pg. A.1
  • In 1983, when Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr., the rightist ideologue who has run for President three times, began relocating the Manhattan headquarters of his multimillion-dollar publication enterprises to the Washington area, the migration attracted little notice.
    • LaRouche Arouses Fears In Rural Area of Virginia BEN A. FRANKLIN, Special to the New York Times. New York Times. (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y.: Oct 3, 1985. pg. B.8
  • LaRouche was once a Trotsky Socialist who tried to stir up campus revolutions. He got too strange for that crowd, so he founded his own bizarre right-wing organization.
    • Mar 26, 1986 THE LAROUCHIES -- EVEN FOR ILLINOIS, THIS IS WEIRD. MIKE ROYKO. Seattle Times. Seattle, Wash.: Mar 26, 1986. pg. A.14
  • LaRouche and his followers take many positions on the radical right, often blaming international conspiracies for the world's problems.
    • Elderly woman's promissory notes for loans were securities, court rules; [ST. PAUL Edition] Margaret Zack, Staff Writer. Star Tribune. Minneapolis, Minn.: Apr 5, 1988. pg. 03.B
  • Roy Frankhauser, a former security aide to right-wing political extremist Lyndon LaRouche, was sentenced yesterday to three years in prison and fined $50,000 for his part in an alleged $1 million credit-card scam by the LaRouche organization.
    • LaRouche aide gets 3 years in credit-card plot. UPI Providence Journal. Providence, R.I.: Feb 18, 1988. pg. A-11
  • To a casual observer, Mr. LaRouche is a bit of a joke - a quixotic right-winger who supports President Ronald Reagan's defence policy and has an unusual fear of conspiracies and assassination
    • UNITED STATES Oddball tycoon wins some battles. JOHN KING. The Globe and Mail. Toronto, Ont.: Jan 26, 1984. pg. P.8
  • Thousands of angry people complained to television stations nationwide about a half-hour political advertisement in which right-wing independent presidential candidate Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. claimed Walter Mondale ``is an agent of influence of Soviet intelligence services.
    • CALLERS ANGRY ABOUT LAROUCHE PROGRAM; [FOURTH Edition] Seattle Times. Seattle, Wash.: Oct 24, 1984. pg. A.2
  • WASHINGTON - A man aligned with radical right politician Lyndon LaRouche disrupted a speech by a State Department official with shouts of ``traitor, and was bombarded with a flurry of punches from an audience member.
    • Houston Chronicle (pre-1997 Fulltext). Houston, Tex.: May 29, 1985. pg. 3
  • If the debacle of the Illinois primary election does nothing more, it will alert the rest of the United States to the right-wing extremist natureof Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. and the followers of his self-created National Democratic Policy Committee.
    • It's Stupefying; [Home Edition]Los Angeles Times (pre-1997 Fulltext). Los Angeles, Calif.: Mar 21, 1986. pg. 4 (editorial)
  • Since he first organized a group of college students in the 1968 Columbia University strike, Mr. LaRouche, now 62 years old, has led organizations that in the 1970's veered from the extreme left to the extreme right of American politics. Terrorist Training
    • CBS SELLS TIME TO FRINGE CANDIDATE FOR TALK. KERR, PETER. New York Times. (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y.: Jan 22, 1984. pg. A.23
  • The story of how Lyndon LaRouche transformed himself from Marxist theoretician to red-white-and-blue conservative in 10 years is a tale of a political chameleon. ..The NCLC started in the late 1960s as a left-wing Marxist sect and then shifted to the far right in the mid-1970s. Its philosophy now is a thick stew of political ingredients.
    • "Ideological Odyssey: From Old Left to Far Right" By John Mintz Washington Post January 14, 1985 [8]
  • LaRouche started his party in the late 1960s as a left-wing Marxist sect and then shifted to the far right in the mid 1970s. Some people have publicly expressed doubts that the shift to the right was authentic and believe LaRouche is secretly still a Marxist. [..] And he began to push the ideas of the far right. Still, in a report issued last year, the Heritage Foundation said that despite LaRouche's appearance as a right wing anti-Communist, he takes political stands "which in the end advance Soviet foreign policy goals."
    • U.S. extremist grows as political force; [SUN Edition] William Lowther Special to The Star. Toronto Star. Toronto, Ont.: Mar 30, 1986. pg. B.1
  • Un banco de Nueva Jersey (EE UU) ha entablado una acción judicial contra el político norteamericano de extrema derecha Lyndon LaRouche, de 63 años, y su organización, el Partido Obrero Europeo, a la que acusa de haber cobrado de forma fraudulenta unos 750.000 dólares (más de 131 millones de pesetas), según se hizo público el domingo. [..] Este excéntrico personaje, que militó en el partido comunista, se ha presentado tres veces como independiente a la presidencia estadounidense.[..] El grupo ultraderechista que encabeza LaRouche mantiene un importante servicio de información que fue consultado a principios de 1983 por la policía española.
    • Un banco de EE UU acusa de fraude al ultraderechista Lyndon LaRouche AFP - Washington - 05/08/1986 EL PAÍS Madrid (España)[9]
  • [ From Chicago, NPR's Cheryl] DEVALL: These people, as [WENDY COHEN, Executive Director, Illinois Democratic Party] calls them are 21 LaRouche candidates, running in the March 15th Democratic primary, for offices ranging from governor to state central committee. Democratic officials are producing sample ballots and radio adds to remind voters who the real Democrats are and they've sent mailings to news organizations listing the LaRouche slate and offering quotations by and about their political mentor. The excerpts portray a mixture of socialism, moral elitism and right-wing paranoia.
    • LYNDON LAROUCHE SUPPORTERS RUNNING AGAIN IN ILLINOIS All Things Considered. Washington, D.C.: Jan 28, 1994. pg. 1
  • Jacques Cheminade, a maverick associate of American far-rightist Lyndon LaRouche, is said by opinion polls to have almost no support.
    • France Prepares for Presidential Poll 22 April 1995 The Moscow Times [10]
  • Cheminade, de 53 años, presidente entre 1989 y 1991 del Partido Obrero Europeo (POE) y que ya intentó ser candidato a la presidencia en 1981 y 1988, es socio del millonario norteamericano Lyndon Larouche, fundador del grupúsculo ultraderechista US Labour Party, condenado en Estados Unidos por fraude y evasión de impuestos en 1989 y que en 1992 disputó la presidencia a Bill Clinton desde la prisión.
    • Ocho candidatos y un espontáneo AGENCIAS - París - 08/04/1995 EL PAÍS Madrid (España) [11]
  • Pescando en agua revuelta Todos los grupos de la derecha como Lindon LaRouche, Naciones Arias, Movimiento de la Supremacia Blanca, trataron de reclutar sus partidarios entre los miembros del Movimiento Agrícola Americano que se formó en aquella época, hasta dividirlo en varias agrupaciones, la táctica de cada grupo varía pero la base ideológica, representada por el Movimiento Patriota quedó intacta.
    • "La guerra interna y la resistencia de las milicias en los EE.UU." Pelaez, Vicky. El Diario La Prensa. New York, N.Y.: Dec 17, 1995. Vol. XXXVI, Iss. 1314668; pg. 30
  • The world, in the current Farrakhan formulation, encompasses not only Iraq's Hussein, Syria's Assad, the Sudan's Bashir, but the Republicans' priceless Jack Kemp, who recently blundered into praise of Farrakhan's message of "black self-determination" as well as Lyndon LaRouche, nutjob perennial of the far right.
    • Sins of omission Trebay, Guy. The Village Voice. New York: Oct 22, 1996. Vol. 41, Iss. 43; pg. 18, 1 pgs
  • So I asked [Senator Ross Lightfoot] why he had signed a petition distributed by the extremist US LaRouche political cult. Senator Lightfoot's memory failed him again. "Who are the LaRouchites?" Followers of Lyndon LaRouche, a former US Trotskyist who turned extreme-right in the 1970s, were successfully indicted by the United States Justice Department for fraud, corruption, conspiracy, harassment, assault and hundreds of felony charges.
    • 27 June - 24 July 1997 Lights out: Charge of the white brigade By Michael Kapel. The AIJAC Review [12]
  • One right-wing party - Citizens Movement Solidarity - is headed in Germany by Helga Zep-LaRouche, the wife of U.S. right-wing extremist Lyndon LaRouche.
    • "FRINGE PARTIES SPICE UP GERMAN ELECTIONS;" KAREN CARSTENS. Seattle Times. Seattle, Wash.: Sep 25, 1998. pg.A.14
  • Como si esto fuera poco, se declara abiertamente fascista al apoyar públicamente a Lyndon Larouche, un tenebroso representante de la ultraderecha norteamericana.
    • "Colombianos despistados" Villavicencio Guerrero, Edgar. El Diario La Prensa. New York, N.Y.: Dec 25, 2001. Vol. XXXVII, Iss. 1317130; pg. 13
  • Fernando De la Rúa tuvo como asesor principal a Norman Bailey un ex agent de la CIA y miembro del equipo de Reagan y de gran amistad con Lyndon LaRouche, ése de la extrema derecha.
    • "Argentina: árbol caído hacha con él" Pelaez, Vicky. El Diario La Prensa. New York, N.Y.: Jun 4, 2002. Vol. XXXVII, Iss. 1317295; pg. 12
  • ELEANOR HALL: One of the nation's powerful unions has expressed alarm at the number of union members who've signed onto a petition spearheaded by a far right-wing political group affiliated with controversial American economist, Lyndon LaRouche. [..] John Sutton is national assistant secretary of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, and he's been telling Tanya Nolan that he's concerned that many unionists may not know about the CEC's links. [..]
  • TANYA NOLAN: What do you understand of the CEC?
  • JOHN SUTTON: They're some sort of far right-wing conspiratorial mob who puts out sometimes material that is sensible on its face, but when you look into these people and find out the full gambit of their philosophy and their thinking, some of it is pretty dreadful stuff, and it's certainly out there on the extreme right and it's. . .
  • TANYA NOLAN: Are you particularly concerned about its affiliations with Lyndon LaRouche?
  • JOHN SUTTON: Yes, well, I think our people, or certainly those of our members who have associated with that advertisement, don't know about Lyndon LaRouche and don't understand the background to this organisation, the CEC. I think if they had known the full picture, then they'd think twice about putting their signature to anything that gives any credence to the CEC.
    • Alarm at petition with right-wing extremist links The World Today - 26 September 2002 Reporter: Tanya Nolan The World Today.[13]
  • The original police threat assessment on December 11 acknowleged that its information came from an extreme-right American political cult headed by Lyndon LaRouche which, in turn, retails slanders from the Algerian regime.
    • Keith Locke: Imprisoned refugee inhumanely treated (Keith Locke is the Greens' foreign affairs spokesman.) New Zealand Herald [14] circa 2003
  • Shortly after leaving a meeting staged by far-right extremists, ... The meeting was organised by the Schiller Institute, an extreme political group linked to LaRouche that shared a deep anti- Semitic streak. The institute is led by Lyndon LaRouche, a US right- wing conspiracy theorist once sentenced to 15 years in prison for fraud and who stood in this year's presidential elections.
    • "The student, the shadowy cult and a mother's fight for justice: Jeremiah Duggan's death baffled German police and was labelled suicide. Now, 18 months on, new evidence has prompted a reinvestigation", Mark Townsend reports. The Observer. London (UK): Oct 31, 2004. pg. 3
  • LaRouche had led his followers to the political right by the time Ronald Reagan reached the White House. He added environmentalists to his list of enemies, talked about having connections in the intelligence world, championed nuclear energy and the Strategic Defense Initiative, and sought donations from retirees and disaffected farmers in the heartland.
    • No Joke; Eight-time presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche may be a punchline on 'The Simpsons,' but his organization -- and the effect it has on young recruits -- is dead serious; [FINAL Edition] April Witt. The Washington Post. Washington, D.C.: Oct 24, 2004. pg. W.12
  • The Citizens Electoral Council is a far right conspiracy theory party inspired by the American Lyndon LaRouche, which believes the world is headed for financial disaster.
    • Skulduggery motivates biggest donor By Mark Coultan February 2, 2005 Sydney Morning Herald. [15]
  • The conference was actually organized by the "Schiller Institute," which is linked to far-right, anti-Semitic political figure Lyndon LaRouche.
    • Dateline The Jerusalem Report. Jerusalem: Nov 28, 2005. pg. 45
  • [Ken] Aldred has admitted meeting Citizens Electoral Council delegations, with Allen Douglas, a leader of the far-Right US group founded by Lyndon LaRouche, praising Aldred as a "patriot acting in the best interests of his country".
    • Raking over the ashes: The Aldred affair reveals disunity among the Victorian Liberals. by Ewin Hannan and Rick Wallace From: The Australian March 24, 2007 [16]
  • It was actually a meeting organized by the far-right Schiller Institute, and Duggan found himself involved with followers of Lyndon LaRouche, an American millionaire and convicted fraudster with virulent anti-Semitic views.
    • "UK Parliament discusses suspicious death of Jewish student in Germany" JONNY PAUL, Jerusalem Post correspondent. Jerusalem Post. Jerusalem: Mar 27, 2007. pg. 07
  • The only setback in Mr. Sangmeister's political career came when he lost the 1986 primary race for lieutenant governor to Mark Fairchild, a supporter of the ultra-right, anti-communist Lyndon LaRouche.
    • "George E. Sangmeister Illinois" The Washington Post. Washington, D.C.: Oct 20, 2007. pg. B.6
  • In seiner Organisation "Patrioten fur Deutschland" versammelte LaRouche Edelmenschen wie den WK-zwo-Zerstorerkommandanten Zenker, den Ritterkreuztrager von der Heydte und den geschassten MAD-Geheimdienstchef Scherer. Ferner kooperierte er mit der rechten franzosischen "Parti ouvrier europeen" (POE) und mit dem Kroatischen Nationalrat.
    • "HOGE uber arme und reiche Irre" HELMUT HOGE. Die Tageszeitung. Berlin: Oct 31, 2008. pg. 24
  • Competition Minister Craig Emerson likened Senator Joyce's comments to the theories peddled by the lunar-right Citizens Electoral Council, the Australian wing of the extremist movement founded by the US self-styled economist and convicted fraudster Lyndon LaRouche.
    • Tony Abbott puts rein on Barnaby Joyce by Christian Kerr and Joe Kelly From: The Australian December 12, 2009 [17]
  • BARNABY Joyce's views about limiting foreign investment, the possibility of the US defaulting on its loans and the fraud behind climate change are an echo of the platform of one of Australia's most extreme right-wing groups, the Citizens Electoral Council. The CEC are the Australian disciples of US far-right figure Lyndon LaRouche, and while the CEC struggles to make an impact on the broader electoral scene in Australia, it has a strong following in the part of rural Queensland from where Senator Joyce comes.
    • Barnaby Joyce voices a far Right platform Andrew Fraser From: The Australian December 12, 2009 [18]
  • A furious Barnaby Joyce told J-Wire today that he has never had any association with the Citizens’ Electoral Council. The Queensland-based senator who is the Shadow Minister for Finance was answering claims made in last Saturday’s “Australian” that he was on the mailing list of the extreme right-wing CEC whose leader was quoted in the paper as saying “we play in the same paddock.” The CEC which is believed to be associated with the virulently anti-Semitic U.S.-based Lyndon LaRouche, claimed an association with Joyce through their mailing list.
    • Barnaby Joyce denies any association with the CEC December 14, 2009 by Henry Benjamin. J-Wire [19]
  • Das Verfassungsgericht lehnte jetzt die Klage einer englischen Mutter ab. Ihr Sohn Jeremy Duggan (22) starb 2003 in Deutschland nach Besuch einer Tagung des Schiller-Instituts, das zur rechten Larouche-Bewegung gehört.
    • "Mysteriöser Todesfall bleibt ungeklärt" Die Tageszeitung. Berlin: Feb 24, 2010. pg. 06
  • In the interest of national sanity, let us demolish some of their more outlandish notions, point by point: The UN's climate change fraud is cover for a plot to bring about a world government. This world government codswallop began years ago with one Lyndon H. LaRouche, a conspiracy theory lunatic so far to the right he makes George W. Bush look like Hugo Chavez. A convicted criminal, self-styled "economist" and vicious anti-Semite, LaRouche also believes the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh head a Zionist cartel that runs the global drug trade.
    • "Debunking the myths behind the pontificating potty peer" February 6, 2010 Mike Carlton The Age Melbourne, Victoria. [20]
  • AN IMPROMPTU visit by members of the radical, right-wing political party, The Citizens Electoral Council (CEC), to Clarence MP Steve Cansdell's office last Thursday resulted in the former boxer coming out swinging in defence of the Clarence River.
    • It's dam nonsense The Advocate. Coffs Harbour, Qld.: Dec 23, 2010. pg. 10
  • A presidential candidate whose ideology has moved from from far left to far right over the years, LaRouche ...
    • The Boston Globe, March 9, 1988 [21]
  • He is a presidential hopeful who has ranged from the far left to the far right of the political spectrum, a politician who has worried Democrats and puzzled pundits. ... LaRouche began his political career in 1948 as a member of the far-left Socialist Workers Party. He considered himself a Marxist and, in 1968, formed his first organization, the US Labor Party. During the 1970s, however, he began to shift from the left to the right side of the political spectrum.
    • The Boston Globe, July 3, 1987 [22]

Left[edit]

Sources that describe LaRouche or the movement as being on the "political left" or similar terms

Newspapers[edit]

  • Some people have publicly expressed doubts that the shift to the right was authentic and believe LaRouche is secretly still a Marxist... Despite the group's right-wing allies and conservative rhetoric, some critics say they doubt that the LaRouche organization truly abandoned its leftist principles and believe it merely faked a conversion to the right -- a point raised by NBC in the libel case. The Heritage Foundation said in a July report that despite LaRouche's appearance as a right-wing anticommunist, he takes political stands "which in the end advance Soviet foreign policy goals." Daniel Graham, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon's intelligence arm, and a longtime LaRouche critic, said he believes LaRouche is an "unrepentant Marxist-Leninist" who faked the move to the right "to suck conservatives into giving him money." Some other former high-ranking intelligence officials, mostly conservatives, said they join Graham in this belief. LaRouche and his associates deny these allegations, and several ex-members interviewed back them up.
    • "Ideological Odyssey: From Old Left to Far Right" By John Mintz Washington Post January 14, 1985 [23]
    • (See also same source quoted under "Right")
  • LaRouche started his party in the late 1960s as a left-wing Marxist sect and then shifted to the far right in the mid 1970s. Some people have publicly expressed doubts that the shift to the right was authentic and believe LaRouche is secretly still a Marxist. [..] And he began to push the ideas of the far right. Still, in a report issued last year, the Heritage Foundation said that despite LaRouche's appearance as a right wing anti-Communist, he takes political stands "which in the end advance Soviet foreign policy goals."
    • U.S. extremist grows as political force; [SUN Edition] William Lowther Special to The Star. Toronto Star. Toronto, Ont.: Mar 30, 1986. pg. B.1
    • (See also same source quoted under "Right")
  • Former right-wing crackpot and current left-wing crackpot Lyndon LaRouche ...
  • ... the list of enemies who jumped on Smith's bandwagon while it appeared [in 1993 and 1994] he might shut down many ADL operations in California. There was left-wing political extremist Lyndon LaRouche, ...
  • Was it, asked Jim "Gateway Pundit" Hoft, because the press doesn't want to reveal that it's LaRouche activists, not conservatives, comparing the president to Hitler.
    What the media purposely omitted from their stories was the fact that the protesters waving these astroturfed Obama-Hitler signs were radical left-wing extremists. They were radical activists from the LaRouche organization. But, this didn’t fit the state-run media’s narrative that tea party activists were radicals and racists so they omitted this from their reports.
    • Washington Post, Jun 24, 2010 [24]
  • His fans are still pushing his far left agenda. Stop and talk to them and they tell you that he is the one candidate who won't give up his principles. I went to Quincy Market on Wednesday afternoon -- it's Soulard Market without the vegetables, sort of a gentrified food court -- and I heard the sound of gospel music coming from the courtyard. I followed the sound and came upon a group of young people. They stood behind a large banner that said, "You Exclude Us. We Include You." They wore T-shirts emblazoned: Lyndon LaRouche Youth. Their voices were lovely. I had the odd sense that Up With People had merged with the Unification Church. When they took a break, I spoke to one of the young men. He was clean cut and clear-eyed, handsome and friendly. He told me that LaRouche Youth undergo voice training. They learn spirituals and Bach. It's an important way to counter the cultural garbage that young people are confronted with, he said. Considering that the newest reality show involves putting Amish kids in a house with "contemporary" kids, who can argue? The young man offered me a couple of pieces of literature and a CD. I accepted the literature and turned down the CD. "I'm a Luddite," I said, trying to make a connection, one flat-earther to another. He just nodded, and then told me that LaRouche would be speaking later in the afternoon. At an off-convention site, of course. So even LaRouche has his hard-core supporters. I was a little taken aback by that. Later, I looked at some of literature the young man had given me. LaRouche seemed particularly down on Dick Cheney. He suggested that Cheney was the brains behind Bush, but Cheney's wife was the brains behind Cheney.
    • St Louis Post Dispatch July 29, 2004 [25]
  • Eric Thomas at the Lyndon LaRouche PAC booth, bearing let's-go-left-wing material from the wonderfully rabid foe of all things Bush.
    • Miami Herald, Oct 8, 2004 [26]
  • Are these major news organizations willfully ignorant? They make a slap at the right when this Obama-as-Hitler poster is clearly coming from the left. It's absurd, and it's dangerous. The public is not getting the real story, Mr. Motley says. The LaRouche folks deny nothing. The image of Obama with a toothbrush mustache was initiated by LaRouche PAC organizers.
    • Washington Times, August 13, 2009 [27]
  • It's certainly true that rude and obnoxious people showed up at the town-hall meetings. But the worst examples of bad behavior had little to do with conservatives. The only person I know about who was beaten at a town-hall meeting was a black conservative who was put in the hospital by union thugs. The pictures of Obama sporting a Hitlerian mustache were the work of Lyndon LaRouche, a conspiracy theorist whose roots are in the 1970s Paranoid Left.
  • The Independent Bob Katter, the now collapsed One Nation Party and the deeply strange Lyndon LaRouche mob, tried to re-ignite support for the stale old economics tenets of the traditional left, and were howled down as "nutters."
    • Winnipeg Free Press, February 6, 2009 [29]
  • Nativist persuasions that underwrite the neo-isolationist thrust of The American Conservative permit editors and authors to tap into long-standing sources of discontent. These sentiments are neither Right nor Left. They are better described as an extension of the Left fascism that has nibbled at the edges of American politics since World War II. The Lyndon LaRouche National Caucus of Labor Committees phenomenon of the 1960s, and even before that, the Charles Coughlin Social Justice wing of the America First movement of the 1930s, embodied many of the causes espoused by Buchanan. In an earlier essay on left-wing fascism I noted that "the history of fascism in the United States mirrors that of Europe. Socialism, far from being dropped, becomes incorporated into the national dream, into the dramaturgy for redemption, for a higher civilization that will link nationhood and socialism into a move forward."

Others[edit]

  • All we got are a few professional hecklers registered from Lyndon LaRouche, DeSmogBlog, and some other left-wing conspiracy groups.
  • as Wall Street Journal critic Terry Teachout pointed out, Robbins actually used a publication put out by lunatic left-cult leader Lyndon Larouche as the source for a misquote of conservative philosopher Leo Strauss.
  • Besides the Drexel Democrats, there were members of the AARP and supporters of far left, anti-Semitic presidential hopeful Lyndon LaRouche.
  • Every weekend, volunteers for the LaRouche campaign set up tables along University Way. The LaRouche campaign is known for tying traditional left-wing rhetoric to psychedelic conspiracy theories involving Nazis, Dick Cheney, supertrains, and Satan.
  • The growing presence of the lunatic fringes on both the right (led by Pastor Steve Anderson of Arizona praying for the president’s death because “he hates Obama”) and the left (led by Lyndon Larouche and his acolytes distributing posters depicting the president as Hitler) makes one hope that extremists will soon come to embrace good old fashioned values like individual responsibility, hard work, and getting a good education—the exact message Obama intends to deliver on September 8.
    • Obama must reset the agenda by John Parisella on Monday, September 7, 2009 Maclean’s [34]

Neither or both[edit]

Sources that describe LaRouche or the movement as having an affiliation which is neither "left" nor "right", or has elements of both

Books[edit]

  • While LaRouche's earlier organizations had had a left-wing orientation, lately he had been cultivating a conservative image. p. 188
  • In the world of LaRouche, the standard left-right political sale has been twisted into a Möebius strip. p. 192
  • In the United States, conspiracy theories that condemn Trilateralists, Zionists, and international bankers are usually associated with right-wingers. Thus, some journalists, recalling LaRouche's days as a Columbia University radical, have characterized him as a leftist who has taken an inexplicable swing to the right. But many leftists oppose the Trilateral Commission and international banking establishment as forces of capitalist exploitation. And, the Soviet Union and some American leftist organizations are anti-Zionist, believing that Israel is a tool of U.S. imperialism. So is LaRouche a leftist or a right-winger? Again, it seems that his politics defy description. p. 199
  • But there are signs that LaRouche's overtures to the right were more practical than sincere. A 1975 party memo talks about uniting with the right to overthrow the conspirators: "Once we have won this battle, eliminating our right-wing opposition will be comparatively easy." During his flirtation with right-wingers, LaRouche also supported the Soviet Union. p. 207
    • Johnson, George (1983). "The 'New Dark Ages' Conspiracy". Architects of Fear: Conspiracy Theories and Paranoia in American Politics. J.P Tarcher. ISBN 0874772753.
  • LaRouche has been considered "left" and "right" because of the group's strange ideology. ... He appears to cater to right wing groups when he wants their support (George & Wilcox, 1992)."
  • The general confusion over whether it is "right" or "left" revolves around the group's novel approach to political theory. (p. 285)
  • LaRouche's extremist style--strident, authoritarian, mortalizing, and intolerant--was generally extremist. Given the correct "spin", it could be perceived as being either "right wing" or "left wing", depending upon what was needed. (p. 287)
  • The relationship, such as it was, between the USLP and Willis Carto's Liberty Lobby was marked by a good deal of mutual suspicion. Carto found LaRouche's writings too obscure and convoluted for his liking. Put simply, he was no more adept at understanding them than anyone else. Nor was he particularly happy with the large number of Jews associated with the USLP. The LaRouche people, on the other hand, regarded the Liberty Lobby crowd as "red-necks" and "idiots." Carto acknowledged some exploratory talks with LaRouche, particularly concerning his proposal that LaRouche
    assist us in fighting the IRS, pushing for legislation against the IRS and putting his organization in a more populist stance, and they refused that. Their derivations are entirely different from ours. They've never dropped their basic socialist positions. Every socialist likes high taxes and every populist hates high taxes. There's a fundamental difference there.
    I think they've gone very far afield by, for instance, their support of Alexander Hamilton.That's an anomaly. I just can't feature that. Alexander Hamilton was a royalist, he was a pro-aristocrat, he was for a central bank. For Christ's sake, this is anathema as far as I'm concerned. We are pro-Jackson and pro-Thomas Jefferson. To us central banking is really the core of the evil so I can't go along with that. 14
  • Although the transient relationship is frequently mentioned to illustrate "links" and "ties" between LaRouche and the extreme right, it was brief and fleeting. Given their respective personalities, a union of LaRouche and Carto would be a miracle under any circumstances. (p. 289)
  • Former California KKK leader and founder of the White Aryan Resistance, Tom Metzger (see neo-Nazi chapter), has asserted that charges of Nazism against LaRouche are "ridiculous." According to Metzger, no one in the neo-Nazi movement has regarded LaRouche as even vaguely sympathetic, and those who have paid him any attention have been suspicious of the large number of Jews and other minorities in his organization. Other professional neo-Nazis say essentially the same thing. If Lyndon LaRouche is a neo-Nazi, that fact is apparently unknown to leaders of the American neo-Nazi movement. (p. 293)
  • "Having characteristics common to European fascist organizations but holding recruitment drives that recurrently target the African American and American muslim communities, LaRouche groups can appear to have a bizarre nature to outsiders. The three-dimensional model, though, suggests that while perhaps unusual, LaRouche may nonetheless be understood as a multicultural right-wing centralist, espousing a European model of fascism with global ambitions but also having an inclusive multicultural orientation and membership."
  • Indeed, so mixed up are his ideas that they almost defy characterization along the Left-Right spectrum, but he does run as a Democrat, he comes out of a radical leftist background, and many of his policies have a left-wing cast. p. 11
  • "... a cultlike political organization that subscribes to a host of conspiracy theories that defy categorization as left or right-wing." p.423
  • As LaRouche drifted from left to right and back again... p.424
  • Last, the LaRouche organization operated a right-wing boiler room fund-raising operation that would often play on the fears of elderly Americans who were told that only LaRouche and his organization stood between the United States and a triumphant oligarchy. p. 424

Newspapers[edit]

  • The fact is that LaRouche's ideology is not compatible with either the Republican or the Democratic Party. LaRouche has termed himself a "neo-Platonic democratic republican," a nonsense phrase that is nonetheless appropriate.
    • 1986 LaRouche Panics the Democratic Party; Dinesh D'Souza. Los Angeles Times (pre-1997 Fulltext). Los Angeles, Calif.: Mar 30, 1986. pg. 3
  • The upset victories of two LaRouche candidates in last month's Illinois Democratic primary have brought him a barrage of national attention unlike anything his movement has experienced in its 20-year odyssey from the far left to its present eccentric positions, which defy description in conventional political terms.
    • The upset victories of two LaRouche candidates in last month's Illinois Democratic primary have brought him a barrage of national attention unlike anything his movement has experienced in its 20-year odyssey from the far left to its present eccentric positions, which defy description in conventional political terms. [..] But behind these and other themes that might raise few eyebrows at a meeting of conservatives is a constellation of conspiracy theories, articulated in language far beyond the normal bounds of political discourse.
    • Toner, Robin (April 4, 1986). "LaRouche savors fame that may ruin him". The New York Times. p. A1.
    • (See also same source quoted under "Right")
  • [BüSo] Für wen: Für alle Verschwörungstheoretiker, die immer noch glauben, alles Übel dieser Welt käme von einer jüdischen Weltkonspiration. Könnte der Linkspartei (und den Rechten?) vielleicht einige Prozente wegnehmen.
    • "David gegen Goliath" MALALAI BINDEMANN, ALEXANDER STEININGER. Die Tageszeitung. Berlin: Jan 17, 2009. pg. 17
  • LaRouche -- whose politics are neither far left nor far right, but more far out --
  • It marks a major milestone in a political saga that began more than a decade ago on the far left of American politics, switched abruptly to the extreme right, and now lies in an area that is difficult to characterize in traditional terms.
    • New York Times, July 3 1987 [36]
  • He has run for President every four years since 1976, at one time espousing political views on the extreme left. More recently he has developed a political approach that does not fit conventional terms.
    • New York Times, July 8 1987 [37]
  • LaRouche, who runs a cult-like political organization from headquarters in Leesburg, Va., is a flamboyant former Marxist theoretician who has put forth a number of conspiracy theories and who holds views ranging from extreme left to extreme right. He calls himself a Democrat, but the party has officially disavowed him.
    • Chicago Sun Times, July 3 1987 [38]
  • Fairchild [a LaRouche candidate] said the news media is guilty of feeding lies to the American public. "The media has not been good to Lyndon LaRouche," he said. "One media guy will say he's a left-winger and another will say he's a right-winger and another will say he's a left-winger who turned into a right-winger. But they don't say what they stand for."
    • Chicago Sun Times, March 20 1986 [39]
  • LaRouche's political philosophy is difficult to describe. Neither the far left nor the far right wants any part of him, though his extremism parallels some of their beliefs.
    • Chicago Sun Times, April 9 1986 [40]

Other[edit]

  • Depending on the moment and the issue, LaRouche can appear to be ultra left wing, ultra right wing, or somewhere in between. There are, however, certain themes that run consistently through his network's ideology. Among them are 5 a virulent anti-Semitism, a belief that world events are guided by a conspiracy aimed at eventually causing a new "Dark Ages," and that Lyndon H. LaRouche is the only individual who has the insight to prevent this calamity from overtaking mankind. ... Whether witting or unwitting, it remains clear that ultimately the publications and rhetoric of the LaRouche network will end up with positions that are favorable to the Soviet Union. The fact that their positions are cloaked in ostensibly conservative rhetoric merely makes-their pro-Soviet slant harder to perceive. what remains true, however, is that their efforts in the long run can only serve to further Soviet propaganda aims within a sector of the population that Moscow could never reach directly.
    • "The Larouche Network" Institutional Analysis #28 July 19, 1984 by Michael Copulus The Heritage Foundation [41]
  • "LaRouche and his subordinates weave a complex and largely incoherent web of conspiracies and intrigue based around a political philosophy that lacks easy compartmentalisation in either the political left or right"
    • AAP General News (Australia) February 1, 1999 [42]
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