LaRouche's critics, particularly Dennis King and Chip Berlet, characterize his current orientation as being a conspiracist worldview.

LaRouche's theory saw himself and his followers as becoming such a hegemonic force.

Platonists in LaRouche's worldview include figures such as Beethoven, Mozart, Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, and Leibniz.

Entitled " Officials Call for LaRouche's Exoneration ", its signatories included Arturo Frondizi, former President of Argentina ; figures from the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement such as Amelia Boynton Robinson ( a leader of the Larouche-affiliated Schiller Institute ), James Bevel ( a Larouche movement participant ) and Rosa Parks ; former Minnesota Senator and Democratic Presidential Candidate Eugene McCarthy ; Mervyn M. Dymally, who chaired the Congressional Black Caucus ; and artists such as classical vocalist William Warfield and violinist Norbert Brainin, former 1st Violin of the Amadeus Quartet.

LaRouche critic and biographer Dennis King says that when the USLP sponsored LaRouche's 1976 campaign, the NCLC was still in transition from a far-left to far-right ideology but by 1977-78 both organizations ( which were really one and the same for all essential purposes ) were advocating extreme-right positions.

LaRouche's legal adviser and treasurer, Edward Spannaus, along with fund raising operatives Dennis Small, Paul Greenberg, Michael Billington, and Joyce Rubinstein, were convicted of conspiracy to commit mail fraud.

Behind the California AIDS Initiative November 3, 1986 ( Dennis King compares LaRouche's writings on AIDS with Hitler's on syphilis )

Press accounts alleged that between April and September 1973, during what LaRouche called " Operation Mop-Up ," NCLC members began physically attacking members of leftist groups that LaRouche classified as " left-protofascists "; an editorial in LaRouche's New Solidarity said of the Communist Party that the movement " must dispose of this stinking corpse.

Newman led the CFC into a brief alliance ( 1973 – 74 ) and even briefer merger ( three months in 1974 ) with Lyndon LaRouche's National Caucus of Labor Committees ( NCLC ); the association began shortly after the conclusion of LaRouche's infamous " Operation Mop Up ," a series of violent NCLC attacks on leftist groups.

Norman Bailey, formerly with the National Security Council, said in 1984 that LaRouche's staff comprised " one of the best private intelligence services in the world "; he said, " They do know a lot of people around the world.

During " Operation Mop-Up ," LaRouche's New Solidarity, reported NCLC confrontations with members of the Communist Party and Socialist Workers Party.

Stevenson, a Democratic Gubernatorial candidate, did not want to run alongside anybody associated with LaRouche's organization.

For more information on LaRouche's 1976 presidential campaign and the movement's legal disputes with the FEC, see Lyndon LaRouche U. S. Presidential campaigns.

George and Wilcox called Frankhouser's deception " one of the biggest hoaxes in the annals of political extremism ", made possible by what they called LaRouche's " obsession with conspiracy theories " and intelligence gathering.

LaRouche's politics were not shared by many in the Democratic Party, allowing him to occupy a niche with little competition.

* Michael DiMarco, candidate in 1983 for New Jersey's 7th legislative district, in 1984 for New Jersey's 13th congressional district, in 1992 for New Jersey's 4th congressional district ( with LaRouche's " Democrats for Economic Recovery " party ).

* Rose-Marie Love, candidate in 1986 for Mayor of Chicago, in 1992 for Illinois ' 7th congressional district ( with LaRouche's " Economic Recovery Party "), in 1994 for Secretary of State of Illinois

According to Tim Wohlforth, during and after his break with Trotskyism, LaRouche's theory was influenced by what he called his " Theory of Hegemony " derived from Vladimir Lenin's view of the role of intellectuals in being a vanguard helping workers develop their consciousness and realize their leading role in society.

The reductionist fallacy then lies in adjusting a value theory like labor theory to fit in with price theory ; in LaRouche's view, economists should work in the opposite direction.

Warren J. Hamerman, Chair of the NDPC, said the searches " conducted by Donald Regan's associate William Weld's forces against presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche's headquarters coincides with Don Regan's desperate attempts to maintain the cover-up on AIDS ".

By 1992, the LaRouche movement had taken full control, renaming the organizational newsletter and moving the headquarters from rural Queensland to a Melbourne suburb, with direct communications links to LaRouche's US headquarters established.

In an article about Duggan's death in 2004, LaRouche's security director, Jeffrey Steinberg, referred to Duggan's counselling there, and said the Tavistock had long been associated with radical experimentation in individual and mass psychological manipulation.

LaRouche's director of security, Jeffrey Steinberg, wrote in June 2004 that Duggan had told the other recruits he had recently been diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, and

Ramsey Clark, who was LaRouche's chief appellate attorney and a former U. S. Attorney General, said that LaRouche was denied a fair trial.

Bobby Ray Inman, the CIA's deputy director in 1981 and 1982, said LaRouche and his wife had visited him offering information about the West German Green Party, and a CIA spokesman said LaRouche met Deputy Director John McMahon in 1983 to discuss one of LaRouche's trips overseas.

LaRouche wrote in his 1987 autobiography that violent altercations had begun in 1969 between his NCLC members and several New Left groups when Mark Rudd's faction began assaulting LaRouche's faction at Columbia University.

The operation ended when police arrested several of LaRouche's followers ; there were no convictions, and LaRouche maintained they had acted in self-defense.

LaRouche alleged that Gilbert and the FSP publishing house, which had issued a pamphlet by Gilbert critical of LaRouche's ideology and political history were in violation of campaign finance laws.

An overview of the LaRouche's organizations is in " LaRouche movement ".

Newman then fulsomely praised LaRouche in the introduction to " Power and Authority " ( 1974 ) published almost one year after most of the Left had denounced LaRouche's move to the Right.

In 1974 the Wisconsin branch of the Labor Party took out a newspaper advertisement announcing that it had filed for an injunction to prevent the CIA, FBI, and the New York Police Department from arresting Lyndon LaRouche ( then known as Lyn Marcus ) or anyone involved in the movement's kidnapping of Christopher White, who had married LaRouche's former common-law wife.

The LaRouche movement is made up of activists who follow LaRouche's views.

According to Bronfenbrenner, LaRouche viewed capitalist America as headed for a kind of fascism not much better than that of the Nazis ; but he noted that LaRouche's own vision of socialism, and the trade-off between necessity and freedom in a centrally planned economy, seemed apt to result in the justification of a different kind of dictatorship:

Italian Economics Minister Giulio Tremonti, said that he had encountered LaRouche at a debate held in 2007 in Rome, and that he appreciates LaRouche's writings.

The memo was eventually obtained by LaRouche's attorneys and submitted as an exhibit in the 1987 trial of LaRouche and co-defendants in Boston.

* " Why Lyndon LaRouche is in Jail " transcript of a national broadcast paid for by LaRouche's presidential campaign in 1992

They warn that the LaRouche movement is " strongly pro-republican " and that they have received reports that LaRouche's organization is being used by the Zionists.

LaRouche's supporters argue that he was, in fact, in jail for his political beliefs ( see LaRouche criminal trials ).

Prior to the primaries the Chair of the Democratic National Party, Don Fowler, ruled that LaRouche " is not to be considered a qualified candidate for nomination of the Democratic Party for President " on account of LaRouche's " expressed political beliefs, including beliefs which are explicidy racist and anti-Semitic, and otherwise utterly contrary to the fundamental beliefs ... of the Democratic Party and ... on his past activities including exploitation of and defrauding contributors and voters.

A routine FEC audit of the 2000 " LaRouche's Committee for a New Bretton Woods " campaign found that vendors whose sole client was Lyndon LaRouche had added unqualified " mark-up charges " to the bill submitted for matching funds.

The LaRouche movement has said the controversy surrounding the death was stirred up by LaRouche's political opponents — including former British prime minister Tony Blair and former U. S. vice-president Dick Cheney — because of LaRouche's criticism of the 2003 Iraq war and the man-made global warming hypothesis, and that the affair is being used by Neoconservatives to discredit the movement.