LaRouche states that many of the world's ills are due to the fact that Aristotelianism, as embraced by British philosophers like Locke, Hume, Hobbes, Bentham and represented by " oligarchs ", foremost among them wealthy British families, has dominated, leading to a culture that favors the empirical over the metaphysical, embraces moral relativism, and seeks to keep the general population uninformed.

LaRouche was a presidential candidate eight times between 1976 to 2004, running once for his own U. S. Labor Party and campaigning seven times for the Democratic Party nomination.

LaRouche was born in Rochester, New Hampshire, the oldest of three children of Jessie Lenore ( née Weir ) and Lyndon H. LaRouche, Sr. His father worked for the United Shoe Machinery Corporation in Rochester before the family moved to Lynn, Massachusetts.

LaRouche and his mother resigned in sympathy for his father.

LaRouche acknowledged in 1980 that his followers impersonated reporters and others, saying it had to be done for his security.

LaRouche denied the newspaper's charges, and said he had filed a $ 100 million libel suit ; his press secretary said the articles were intended to " set up a credible climate for an assassination hit.

* U. S. Labor Party – for the mid-1970s party run by Lyndon LaRouche which has no connections with the current Labor Party.

The Party for the Commonwealth of Canada was a Canadian political party formed by Canadians who supported the ideology of U. S. politician Lyndon LaRouche in the 1984, 1988 and 1993 elections.

and that the Mossad was responsible for the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Watergate scandal and the Monica Lewinsky affair ; and Lyndon LaRouche, who spoke about global finance and his proposal for a transcontinental highway.

The NALP was the Canadian affiliate of the Lyndon LaRouche movement, and later became the Party for the Commonwealth of Canada / Party for the Commonwealth-Republic.

The square often attracts activists for the Communist Party USA, Lyndon LaRouche and other non-mainstream political factions.

It was originally a New Left organization influenced by Trotskyist ideas as well as those of other Marxists such as Rosa Luxemburg, but opposed other New Left organizations which LaRouche said were dominated by the Ford Foundation, Institute for Policy Studies and Herbert Marcuse.

The reason Fred Newman and his colleagues provided for leaving the NCLC was a disagreement between LaRouche and Newman over what to do with the National Unemployed and Welfare Rights Organization ( NUWRO ), which the LaRouchians had founded the previous year ( Newman wanted to build it up, while LaRouche wanted to concentrate on more rarefied issues ).

However, the differences in life style between LaRouchians and Newmanites were equally important in triggering the split, with the notably puritanical LaRouche writing that there was no room in the NCLC for the CFC's unconventional ( by LaRouchian standards ) sexual practices.

Newman's Centers for Change not only did not join in this condemnation ( or in the self-defense coalition that protected leftist meetings at the height of the violence ) but they began working enthusiastically with LaRouche.

Furthermore, Newman and his closest associates expelled and harassed members of Centers for Change, such as Jim Retherford and David Socholitsky, who opposed the alliance with LaRouche.

LaRouche identifies the former U. S. Vice President and former PNAC member Dick Cheney as a modern " synarchist ", and claims that " synarchists " have " a scheme for replacing regular military forces of nations, by private armies in the footsteps of a privately financed international Waffen-SS-like scheme, a force deployed by leading financier institutions, such as the multi-billions funding by the U. S. Treasury, of Cheney's Halliburton gang.

A biography of LaRouche hosted on institute's website says, " It is his work and his ideas, that inspired the creation of the international Schiller Institute, as well as his intellectual and moral leadership that continue to set the standard for the policies and activity of the movement.

The party was founded in 1986 by Senator Adlai Stevenson III in reaction to the Democratic Party's nomination of two followers of Lyndon LaRouche in the race for high state offices.

The " Solidarity Democrats " and the LaRouche supporters blame one another for the subsequent decades of Republican control in Illinois.

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

In a dramatic public confrontation at a forum on New York's Upper West Side and in a series of mimeographed broadsides, they accused Newman of running a psychotherapy cult and of encouraging his followers to provide the FBI with false information on a dissident member of the former CFC, Jim Retherford, who had denounced Newman's alliance with LaRouche.

There are a number of explanations as to how the LaRouche followers became nominees.

In the 1986 campaign for Governor, in a fluke, two followers of Lyndon LaRouche won the Democratic Party primary nominations for Lieutenant Governor and Secretary of State.

LaRouche and his followers became increasingly convinced that the fate of the world rested with their group and their great leader.

The campaign platforms of LaRouche and his followers have included these elements:

LaRouche and his followers use Neoplatonism as the basis for an economic model that posits " the absolute necessity of progress ".

" Left and right are false distinctions for LaRouche ; what matters is the Platonic versus Aristotelian outlook, a position that has led LaRouche to form relationships with groups as disparate as farmers, nuclear engineers, Black Muslims, Teamsters, pro-lifers, and followers of the Ku Klux Klan — even though LaRouche counts the Klan itself among his foes.

These organizations served as the platforms for presidential campaigns by LaRouche starting in 1976, and by his followers in scores of local races.

Several witnesses were LaRouche followers who testified under immunity from prosecution.

There was also an uneasy relationship with explicitly antisemitic groups who charged that the war was being waged on behalf of Israel ; with the few, small right-wing anti-war groups ; and with certain political fringe groups, such as the followers of Lyndon LaRouche.

The Democratic National Committee asserted that LaRouche is not a Democrat, but the U. S. electoral system made it impossible for the party to prevent LaRouche followers entering Democratic primaries.

After LaRouche followers had won the Democratic nominations for both Lieutenant Governor and Secretary of State, Stevenson refused to run as the Democratic standard-bearer, and formed the Solidarity Party.

LaRouche expected members to devote themselves entirely to the party, and place their savings and possessions at its disposal, as well as take out loans on its behalf.

His mother said he became interested in politics after 9 / 11, and told his parents he felt it was important to protest against the Iraq war, which is what led him to take an interest in the LaRouche movement.

According to The Independent, Cramer told Mrs. Duggan that the LaRouche organization was a news agency, and said, " We cannot take responsibility for the actions of individuals.

Former World Wrestling Entertainment personality Justin LaRouche wrestled for the company's ECW brand under the moniker " Bam Neely ", which is a take off Cam Neely's name as well as his nickname ' Bam-Bam Cam '.

" LaRouche describes it in another location as " a new Whig association ," adding that an important objective of the party was to fight against " the attempted revival of the ' preventive nuclear war ' organization, the revived Committee on the Present Danger.

Rees also criticized Lyndon LaRouche and the LaRouche movement saying the organization has " taken on the characteristics more of a political cult than a political party ," and a cult-like " blind obedience.

The Parti pour la république du Canada ( Québec ) ( in English: Party for the Commonwealth of Canada ( Quebec )) was the Quebec branch of the Party for the Commonwealth of Canada, a Canadian political party formed by supporters of U. S. politician Lyndon LaRouche.

" LaRouche describes it in another location as " a new Whig association ," adding that an important objective of the party was to fight against " the attempted revival of the ' preventive nuclear war ' organization, the revived Committee on the Present Danger.

LaRouche was asked how he expected a party with a five-year record of harassment and threats to win the election ; he did not deny the incidents, but replied, " We are only engaged in an open political attack.

Membership was small, ranging from 20 to 100 people per city, with a core of 1, 000 to 1, 800 members ; according to LaRouche, these were complemented by another 13, 000 part-time party organizers.

LaRouche said the party was funded by members ' dues, other small contributions, and the sale of publications like The Campaigner and New Solidarity – one a theoretical journal, the other a twice-weekly newspaper.

In an appearance on " Meet the Press " with other minor party candidates in October 1976, LaRouche predicted monetary collapse followed by thermonuclear war before summer if Jimmy Carter were elected.

* James J. Cleary, candidate in 1984 for New Jersey's 8th congressional district, in 1986 for New Jersey's 7th congressional district, in 1990 for New Jersey's 12th congressional district, in 1994 for New Jersey's 7th congressional district ( with the " LaRouche Was Right " party )

* William Ferguson, candidate in 1983 for School Committee in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1994 for U. S. Senate from Massachusetts ( with the " LaRouche Was Right " party ), in 2001 for Massachusetts's 9th congressional district

The Citizens Electoral Council of Australia ( CEC ) is a minor nationalist political party in Australia affiliated with the international LaRouche Movement, led by American political activist and conspiracy theorist Lyndon LaRouche.

In Minnesota, LaRouche was listed on the ballot under the " National Economic Recovery " party and his vice-presidential candidate was Debra Hanania Freeman.

In 1999, however, a court ruled that the Democratic National Committee had the right to keep LaRouche from electing delegates to the Democratic National Convention, based on a party requirement that a Democratic nominee must be a registered voter.

The coroner ruled that the LaRouche organization be recognized as an interested party, and that the family's evidence would have to be disclosed to them.

In 1996, he ran for the nomination of the Democratic party, despite the Chair of the Democratic National Party ruling that Lyndon LaRouche " is not to be considered a qualified candidate for nomination of the Democratic Party for President " before the primaries began.

Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität ( BüSo ), or the Civil Rights Movement Solidarity, is a German political party founded by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, wife of U. S. political activist Lyndon LaRouche.