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LaRouche and was
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.
Ramsey Clark, who was LaRouche's chief appellate attorney and a former U. S. Attorney General, said that LaRouche was denied a fair trial.
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 wrote that many GIs feared they would be asked to support British forces in actions against Indian independence forces, and that prospect was " revolting to most of us.
For six months, LaRouche worked with American Healyite leader Tim Wohlforth, who later wrote that LaRouche had a " gargantuan ego ," and " a marvelous ability to place any world happening in a larger context, which seemed to give the event additional meaning, but his thinking was schematic, lacking factual detail and depth.
Members all over the world would send information to NCLC headquarters, which would distribute the information via briefings and other publications. LaRouche organized the network as a series of news services and magazines, which commentators say was done to gain access to government officials under press cover.
" 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 would question spouses about their partner's sexual habits, the Times said, and in one case reportedly ordered a member to stop having sex with his wife because it was making him " politically impotent.
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.
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.
Jeffrey Steinberg, LaRouche spokesperson and NCLC " director of counterintelligence ", described it as the " COINTELPRO memo ", which he says showed " that the FBI was considering supporting an assassination attempt against LaRouche by the Communist Party USA.
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.
This was after Mop Up was over, but while the LaRouche organization was still engaging in physical intimidation against black activists and West Coast leftists.
The institute was founded at a conference in Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1984 by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the German-born wife of American political activist Lyndon LaRouche.
There he became a Professor at Rutgers University, New Jersey and an associate of Lyndon LaRouche, and was a founding board member of the Schiller Institute in 1984.

LaRouche and by
It has also published editorials comparing the attacks by Seymour Hersh, and The New York Times on Leo Strauss and his alleged influence in the George W. Bush administration with those of Lyndon LaRouche, a fringe conspiracy theorist and perennial presidential candidate.
In 2009, he posted a transcript of a webcast by political activist Lyndon LaRouche to the official Smashing Pumpkins forum.
LaRouche said he met representatives of the Soviet Union at the United Nations in 1974 and 1975 to discuss attacks by the Communist Party USA on the NCLC and to propose a merger, but said he received no assistance from them.
LaRouche's critics such as Dennis King and Antony Lerman allege that in 1973 and with little warning, LaRouche adopted more extreme ideas, a process accompanied by a campaign of violence against his opponents on the left, and the development of conspiracy theories and paranoia about his personal safety.
A two-part article in The New York Times in 1979 by Howard Blum and Paul L. Montgomery alleged that LaRouche had turned it — at that point with 1, 000 members in 37 offices in North America, and 26 in Europe and Latin America — into an extreme-right, anti-Semitic organization, despite the presence of Jewish members.
* U. S. Labor Party – for the mid-1970s party run by Lyndon LaRouche which has no connections with the current Labor Party.
In 2003, Red Letter Press and its managing editor, Helen Gilbert, were the target of a complaint to the Federal Election Commission by the campaign committee of perennial presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche.
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.
The ADL reports that LaRouche also said that the September 11, 2001 attacks could not have happened without the " connivance " of highly placed U. S. officials, that Osama bin Laden " could never have " organized the attacks, and that the foreign policy of the U. S. has been purchased by " Jewish gangsters " and " Christian Zionists.
The National Caucus of Labor Committees ( NCLC ) is a political cadre organization in the United States founded and controlled by political activist Lyndon LaRouche, who has sometimes described it as a " philosophical association ".
Led by LaRouche, it included " New Left lieutenants " Ed Spannaus, Nancy Spannaus, and Tony Papert, as well as Paul Milkman, Paul Gallagher, Leif Johnson, Tony Chaitkin, and Steve Fraser.
Lyndon LaRouche, leader of a controversial movement on the political fringe, describes a wide-ranging historical phenomenon, starting with Alexandre Saint-Yves d ' Alveydre and the Martinist Order followed by important individuals, organizations, movements and regimes that are alleged to have been synarchist, including the government of Nazi Germany.
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.
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.
In that time, Liberty Lobby also tried to create connections to the American political left by redistributing a report critical of President Jimmy Carter authored by frequent third-party presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche and his NCLC.

LaRouche and Marx's
In 1967 LaRouche began teaching classes on Marx's dialectical materialism at New York City's Free School, and attracted a group of students from Columbia University and the City College of New York, recommending that they read Das Kapital, as well as Hegel, Kant, and Leibniz.
In Dialectical Economics: An Introduction to Marxist Political Economy, a book published in 1975 by D. C. Heath and Company under the pen name Lyn Marcus, LaRouche tried to show that numerous Marxists – ranging from the Monthly Review group to Ernest Mandel, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro and the " Soviet economists " – had failed to correctly understand and interpret Marx's writing.

LaRouche and own
This is interesting because Fulani works closely with Fred Newman, a former affiliate of LaRouche who broke from the National Caucus of Labor Committees to start his own political activities.
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:
* 1980-Lyndon LaRouche campaigned for U. S. President on his own U. S. Labor Party ticket in 1976, but sought the Democratic Party nomination in the next seven elections.

LaRouche and theory
Like Thorstein Veblen, LaRouche subscribed to an overcapitalization theory of economic depression.
Writing in The New York Times in 1989, Johnson described LaRouche as " a kind of Allan Bloom gone mad " who seems to " believe the nonsense he spouts ", a view of the world in which Aristotelians use " sex, drugs and rock-and-roll " and " environmentalism and quantum theory " to support wealthy oligarchs and create a civilization-destroying " new Dark Age ".
They say the Marxist concept of the ruling class was converted by LaRouche into a conspiracy theory, in which world capitalism was controlled by a cabal including the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, Henry Kissinger, and the Council on Foreign Relations.
According to this theory, London financial circles protect themselves from competition by using techniques of " controlled conflict " first developed in Venice, and LaRouche attributes many wars in recent memory to this alleged activity by the British.
The CEC follows the LaRouche line of skepticism towards the theory of anthropogenic global warming.
A detailed " conspiracy theory " first appeared in December 1980 in a magazine run by Lyndon LaRouche, with a follow-up article in Executive Intelligence Review in September 1983.

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