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[[Lyndon LaRouche]] (1922–2019) and the [[LaRouche movement]] have expressed controversial views on a wide variety of topics. The LaRouche movement is made up of activists who follow LaRouche's views.<ref>{{cite news|work=The Evening Independent|author=Donald Kaul|title=LaRouche might awaken Democratic party|page=12A|quote=... 'by 'he' I mean all LaRouche followers; internal dissent is not a big number with them' ... .|date=April 10, 1986}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Mystery of dead Briton and the right-wing cult|first=Jerome|last=Taylor|work=The Independent|location=London (UK)|date=February 27, 2010|page=12|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/mystery-of-dead-briton-and-the-rightwing-cult-1912336.html|access-date=September 17, 2017|archive-date=April 17, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140417042646/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/mystery-of-dead-briton-and-the-rightwing-cult-1912336.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Economics and politics==
According to Matko Meštrović, emeritus senior research fellow at the Institute of Economics of [[Zagreb]], Croatia,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eizg.hr/default.aspx?aspxerrorpath=/emeriti-en-US/105.aspx|title=Naslovna|website=Ekonomski institut, Zagreb|access-date=May 28, 2022|archive-date=May 28, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220528155642/https://www.eizg.hr/default.aspx?aspxerrorpath=%2Femeriti-en-US%2F105.aspx|url-status=live}}</ref> LaRouche's economic policies call for a program modeled on the economic-recovery program of the [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] administration, including [[fixed exchange rates]], [[capital controls]], [[exchange controls]], [[currency controls]], and [[protectionist]] price and trade agreements among partner-nations, although Roosevelt generally pursued trade liberalization.<ref name="TW"/><ref name="Meštrović">{{cite book|editor1-first=Davorka|editor1-last=Vidovic|editor2-first=Davor|editor2-last=Paukovic|first=Matko|last=Meštrović|chapter=What is Global Change?|title=Globalization and Neo-liberalism (Reflections on Croatian Society)|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FfiV0UvHDF4C&pg=PA26|access-date=July 10, 2011|publisher=CPI/PSRC|location=Zagreb, Croatia|isbn=978-953-7022-16-7|year=2007|pages=25–26|archive-date=July 6, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140706195657/http://books.google.com/books?id=FfiV0UvHDF4C&pg=PA26|url-status=live}}</ref> LaRouche also called for a reorganization of debt world-wide, and a global plan for large-scale, continental infrastructure projects.<ref name="Meštrović" /><ref name=Beltran /><ref name=Carter>{{cite news |title=Democrats fear LaRouche takeover; Followers of fringe candidate seek seats on Alameda County Democratic Central Committee |first=Matt |last=Carter  |work=Oakland Tribune |location=Oakland, Calif |date=February 23, 2004 |page=1 }}</ref> He rejects [[free trade]], [[deregulation]], and [[globalization]].<ref name="Meštrović"/><ref name=Smith>{{Cite book|title=Against the machines: minor parties and independents in New South Wales, 1910–2006|series=NSW Sesquicentenary of Responsible Government Series|first=Rodney|last=Smith |publisher=Federation Press|year=2006|isbn= 978-1862876231  |page=97}}</ref>

===Marxist roots===
Lyndon LaRouche began his political career as a [[Trotskyism|Trotskyist]]<ref name="TourishWohlforth2000">{{cite book|last1=Tourish|first1=Dennis|last2=Wohlforth|first2=Tim|title=On the edge: political cults right and left|year=2000|publisher=M.E. Sharpe|isbn=978-0-7656-0639-6|page=69}}</ref> and praised [[Marxism]], but he and the [[National Caucus of Labor Committees]] abandoned this ideology in the late 1970s. From then on, LaRouche no longer opposed private ownership of the means of production, and his analysis of political events is no longer phrased in terms of class.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/fortune/2010-03/31/c_1210286.htm |title=The Current World Financial System is Unsalvageable (现行的世界金融体系已经无可救药) |first=Ju |last=Hui (鞠辉) |newspaper=[[China Youth Daily]] |date=July 24, 2009 |access-date=December 11, 2010 |archive-date=November 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107212200/http://news.xinhuanet.com/fortune/2010-03/31/c_1210286.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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 party|vanguard]] helping workers develop their consciousness and realize their leading role in society. He was influenced by [[Antonio Gramsci]]'s concept of [[hegemony]] as an intellectual and cultural elite which directs social thought. LaRouche's theory saw himself and his followers as becoming such a hegemonic force. He rejected Gramsci's notion of "organic intellectuals" being developed by the working class itself. Rather, the working class would be led by elite intellectuals such as himself.<ref name="TW">{{cite news | first=Tim | last=Wohlforth | url=http://www.publiceye.org/larouche/Wohlforth.html | title=A '60's Socialist Takes a Hard Right | work=Political Research Associates | date=n.d. | access-date=August 27, 2009 | archive-date=January 25, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125020518/http://www.publiceye.org/larouche/Wohlforth.html | url-status=live }}</ref>

LaRouche was influenced by his readings of [[Rosa Luxemburg]]'s ''[[The Accumulation of Capital]]'' and [[Karl Marx]]'s ''[[Das Kapital|Capital]]'' developing his own "theory of reindustrialization", saying that the West would attempt to industrialize the [[Third World]], particularly India, and attempt to solve the economic crisis both by developing new markets in the Third World and using its cheap and surplus labor to increase profits and minimize costs (see [[neocolonialism]].) To oppose this, LaRouche argued for a "reindustrialization" of the United States with himself at the vanguard of the effort allowing him to personally resolve the [[crisis of capitalism]]. Though his arguments had since been stripped of their quasi-Marxist language and citations, his core theories had remained essentially the same since the late 1960s.<ref name="TW"/>

==== ''Dialectical Economics'' ====

In the book ''Dialectical Economics: An Introduction to Marxist Political Economy'', which was 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 understand and to interpret correctly Marx's writing. Marxists he admired—apart from Marx himself—were [[Rosa Luxemburg]] and [[Yevgeni Preobrazhensky]].

According to a review by [[Martin Bronfenbrenner]] in ''[[The Journal of Political Economy]]'', about half of the book was devoted to dialectical philosophy, "with a strong epistemological stress", with the other half devoted to discussions of economic and general history, anthropology and sociology, and actual economics, including a surprisingly large helping of business administration—Bronfenbrenner noted that LaRouche seemed to have "more private-business experience than the great majority of academic economists", including a familiarity with the way speculative [[overcapitalization]], operating at the borders of [[white-collar crime]], creates "fictitious capitals" that later do not match their actual earning power. Like [[Thorstein Veblen]], LaRouche subscribed to an overcapitalization theory of [[economic depression]].<ref name=HigherEd>{{Cite news|author=McLemee, Scott|url=http://www.insidehighered.com/views/mclemee/mclemee132|title=The LaRouche Youth Movement|work=[[Inside Higher Ed]]|date=July 11, 2007|access-date=March 26, 2011|archive-date=April 17, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110417133920/http://www.insidehighered.com/views/mclemee/mclemee132|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=Bronf />

According to Bronfenbrenner, LaRouche viewed conventional economics as a "withered arm of philosophy", which had taken a wrong turn toward [[reductionism]] under the influence of [[Empiricism#British empiricism|British empiricists]] such as [[John Locke]] and [[David Hume]].<ref name=Bronf /> LaRouche's definition of reductionism was as follows:

<blockquote>The fundamental fallacy of ordinary understanding is the delusion that the universe is reducible to simple substance, or—the more Hume-like view—that the content of human knowledge is limited to simple-substance-like, self-evident sense perceptions. This discredited outlook—whether it takes the naive mechanistic [form] or the equivalent mechanistic outlook of empiricism—is termed ''reductionism''. All varieties of reductionism are formally premised on the fallacious assumption of formal logic, that the universe can be represented as discrete points interconnected by formal relations.<ref name=Bronf /> </blockquote>

From this it followed, Bronfenbrenner said, that LaRouche viewed bourgeois economists' concern with ''prices'' as reductionism, versus the Marxian concern with ''values''. 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.<ref name=Bronf />

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:<ref name=Bronf />

<blockquote>Judging from his controversial manner, [LaRouche] impresses at least one reader as a Me-for-Dictator type to whom it would be dangerous to entrust the task of drawing any boundary between the domain of freedom and that of necessity or order.<ref name=Bronf>{{Cite news|author=Bronfenbrenner, Martin|url=https://www.jstor.org/pss/1830175|title=Economics in Dialectical Dialect|work=[[The Journal of Political Economy]]|volume=84|number=1|date=Feb 1976|pages=123–130|jstor=1830175|access-date=September 17, 2017|archive-date=May 28, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220528155641/https://www.jstor.org/stable/1830175|url-status=live}}</ref></blockquote>

===LaRouche's campaign platforms===
The campaign platforms of LaRouche and his followers have included these elements:
* A return to a gold-based national and world monetary system, and fixed exchange rates;<ref name="Anastasia Benshoff 1992">{{cite news |title=Bush and Clinton aren't the only candidates in presidential race|edition=Morning|first= Anastasia |last=Benshoff |agency=The Associated Press |newspaper=Orange County Register |location=Santa Ana, Calif | date= August 27, 1992 |page=A.17}}</ref> and replacement of the [[central bank]] system, including the U.S. [[Federal Reserve System]], with a "national bank";<ref>{{cite news |title=Larouchies set sights on Missouri |edition=National, C |first=Virgil |last=Tipton |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=March 31, 1986 |page=3}}</ref>
* A war on [[drug trafficking]] and prosecution of banks involved in [[money laundering]];<ref name="Boston Globe p. 1">{{cite news|title=On the Lyndon LaRouche Campaign |work=Boston Globe|page=1|date=February 26, 1980}}</ref><ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite news|title=County Democrats oppose LaRouche election candidates|author=Wendy Sherman|date=May 14, 1986|page=13}}{{Full citation needed|date=December 2010}}</ref>
* An emphasis on large-scale economic infrastructure, including the building of a world land bridge of railroads and a [[Bering Strait crossing|tunnel under the Bering Strait]],<ref name="Carter"/> the building of [[nuclear power plant]]s,<ref name="Boston Globe p. 1"/><ref name="ReferenceA"/> accelerating research on [[Fusion power|fusion energy]], the [[North American Water and Power Alliance]],<ref name=Santangelo>{{cite news|title=Impeach Obama??|first=Al |last=Santangelo|work=New Haven Register|location=New Haven, Conn.|date=August 29, 2010|page=1}}</ref> and rebuilding or nationalizing the country's [[History of the modern steel industry|steel industry]];<ref>{{cite news |title=Her Political Demonology |author=Wharton, Gray and Henry K. Christopher Hepp |newspaper= Philadelphia Daily News |date=April 3, 1984 |page= 42}}</ref>
*A crash program to build [[particle-beam weapon]]s and [[laser]]s, including support for elements of the [[Strategic Defense Initiative]] (SDI);<ref>{{cite news |title=United States Oddball tycoon wins some battles |first=John |last=King  |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |location=Toronto|date= January 26, 1984 |page=8}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Two Democrats who are not quite front-runners |first=Joyce |last=Gemperlein |newspaper=Philadelphia Inquirer |date= April 2, 1984 |page= A.7 }}</ref>
*Opposition to the [[USSR]] and support for a military buildup to prepare for imminent war;<ref>{{cite news |title=Illinois Winners Spent $200 Everyone Sharing Blame for Far-Right Vote Victory |author=Larry Green, Scott Kraft |work= Los Angeles Times |date=March 21, 1986 |page= 1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=U.S. extremist grows as political force|edition=SUN|author=William Lowther|work=Toronto Star|date=Mar 30, 1986|page=B.1}}</ref>
*Growth in food production and a farm debt moratorium;<ref>{{cite news |title=Thurmond gets opposition in today's primary voting |page= 14 |newspaper=Daily Intelligencer / Montgomery County Record |date=June 12, 1984 }}</ref>
*Low interest rates and opposition to the [[Gramm–Rudman–Hollings Balanced Budget Act|Gramm–Rudman balanced-budget law]];<ref>{{cite news |title=Lyndon LaRouche has got America's attention now! |date=March 27, 1986 |first=John |last=Dillin |newspaper=The Christian Science Monitor |url=http://www.csmonitor.com/1986/0327/arouche.html |access-date=October 20, 2009 |archive-date=October 14, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014092302/http://www.csmonitor.com/1986/0327/arouche.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Later orientation===
According to ''[[China Youth Daily|China Youth Daily Online]]'', LaRouche was once a Marxist, but later supported heavily regulated capitalism. He supported public control of financial capital and low-interest loans.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/fortune/2010-03/31/c_1210286.htm |title=The Current World Financial System is Unsalvageable (现行的世界金融体系已经无可救药) |first=Ju |last=Hui (鞠辉) |newspaper=[[China Youth Daily]] |date=July 24, 2009 |access-date=December 11, 2010 |archive-date=November 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107212200/http://news.xinhuanet.com/fortune/2010-03/31/c_1210286.htm |url-status=dead }} Lyndon LaRouche ... used to endorse Marxism, but later switched to supporting the American-style capitalist economy. ... He also states that if the public controlled the financial capital and revitalized industries with low-interest loans, American people can return to the spirit of innovation.</ref>

LaRouche said banks should not be bailed out, but be placed in receivership by the state. He said that a "[[Firewall (construction)|firewall]]" should prevent state aid from being diverted to speculative entities, which should be allowed to fail, and that such failures would clean up the financial markets.<ref name=Caizzi>{{cite news |last=Caizzi |first=Ivo |title=La Bretton Woods 2 di LaRouche e Tremonti |url=http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2008/ottobre/20/Bretton_Woods_LaRouche_Tremonti_ce_0_081020029.shtml |work=Corriere della Sera |date=October 20, 2008 |access-date=November 16, 2008 |archive-date=January 8, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160108145251/http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2008/ottobre/20/Bretton_Woods_LaRouche_Tremonti_ce_0_081020029.shtml |url-status=live }} {{cite web |title=Google translation |url=https://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=it&tl=en&u=http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2008/ottobre/20/Bretton_Woods_LaRouche_Tremonti_ce_0_081020029.shtml |access-date=May 28, 2022 |archive-date=May 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220528155643/https://archivio-corriere-it.translate.goog/Archivio/interface/landing.html?_x_tr_sl=it&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en |url-status=live }}</ref>

LaRouche believes in the principles of the [[New Deal]] of President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], and favors state intervention in the economy. LaRouche also said that he supported the approach of U.S. Treasury Secretary [[Alexander Hamilton]], who established a banking system geared to develop production.<ref name=Caizzi/>

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. According to an article by Ivo Caizzi in ''[[Corriere della Sera]]'', a group of Italian Senators led by [[Oskar Peterlini]] asked the Berlusconi government to tackle the financial crisis using legislation developed by LaRouche in 2007. The legislation proposed that public money should save only the commercial infrastructure required for the financing of productive enterprises.<ref name=Caizzi/>

The "Triple Curve", or "typical collapse function", is an economic model developed by LaRouche which tries to illustrate the growth of financial aggregates at the expense of the physical economy and how this leads to an inevitably collapsing [[bubble economy]]. According to the ''China Youth Daily Online'' interview, LaRouche's main point is that the [[real economy]] (production) is dropping while the nominal economy (money and financial instruments) is going up. As the nominal economy greatly overreaches the real economy, an unavoidable economic crisis ensues.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://zqb.cyol.com/content/2009-07/24/content_2771606.htm |title=The Current World Financial System is Unsalvageable (现行的世界金融体系已经无可救药) |first=Ju |last=Hui (鞠辉) |newspaper=China Youth Daily |date=July 24, 2009 |access-date=July 28, 2009 |archive-date=November 6, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106181927/http://zqb.cyol.com/content/2009-07/24/content_2771606.htm |url-status=live }} His basic points about the unavoidability of the current US economic crisis are: the production of real goods is constantly dropping, but the credit supplies are steadily increasing, the real and nominal economies form two curves with one going up, and another one going down, which creates a great contrast. When the nominal economy greatly overreaches the real economy, the world will fall into an economic crisis.</ref>

Since 2000, the LaRouche movement has:
*Called for a [[debt moratorium|moratorium]] on [[Third World]] debt.<ref name=Beltran>{{cite news |last=Beltran |first=Jill |title=Group proposes steps vs. economic crisis |url=http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/man/2008/10/26/news/group.proposes.steps.vs.economic.crisis.html |newspaper=Sun-Star |location=Manila |date=October 26, 2008 |access-date=September 21, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081028234535/http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/man/2008/10/26/news/group.proposes.steps.vs.economic.crisis.html |archive-date=October 28, 2008 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Qazwini |first=Iqbal |title=Major International Crises Need a Giant Project to Overcome Them |url=http://www.aawsat.com/leader.asp?section=3&issueno=8822&article=148496 |newspaper=[[Asharq al-Awsat]] |date=January 23, 2003 |access-date=September 21, 2009 |archive-date=July 16, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716202344/http://www.aawsat.com/leader.asp?section=3&issueno=8822&article=148496 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*Opposed [[deregulation]].<ref name=Smith/> According to LaRouche's publications, "LaRouche has consistently called for reregulation of utilities, transportation, health care (under the "Hill-Burton" standard), the financial (especially the speculative markets) and other sectors ..."<ref>{{cite web |title=Campaign 2004: Where they stand |url=http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3050wh_th_stand_econ.html |publisher=larouchepub.com |date=December 26, 2003 |access-date=September 1, 2009 |archive-date=November 12, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081112034821/http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3050wh_th_stand_econ.html |url-status=live }}</ref>  They support the renewal of [[Glass–Steagall Act]] regulations on banks.<ref name="Santangelo"/>
*In 2007, LaRouche proposed a "Homeowners and Bank Protection Act". This called for the establishment of a federal agency that would "place federal- and state-chartered banks under protection, freeze all existing home mortgages for a period of time, adjust mortgage values to fair prices, restructure existing mortgages at appropriate interest rates, and write off speculative debt obligations of mortgage-backed securities". The bill envisioned a foreclosure moratorium, allowing homeowners to make the equivalent of rental payments for an interim period, and an end to bank bail-outs, forcing banks to reorganize under bankruptcy laws. A LaRouche spokesman said that bank bail-outs "reward corrupt swindlers with taxpayer money". The proposal attracted support from Democrats at city council and state legislature level. Pennsylvania Democrat [[Paul Kanjorski]] opposed the bill, stating it would involve government seizure of "every American bank". Mike Colpitts of ''Housing Predictor'' stated that LaRouche's economic forecasts had been correct, and that he might have received more mainstream credibility had it not been for his controversial history.<ref>[http://www.saukvalley.com/articles/2007/11/02/news/state/293146607163817.txt "Former candidate returns to Illinois"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716011342/http://www.saukvalley.com/articles/2007/11/02/news/state/293146607163817.txt |date=July 16, 2011 }}, saukvalley.com, November 2, 2007.</ref>

==Neoplatonism==
[[File:Sanzio 01 Plato Aristotle.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.9|LaRouche references an old dispute between Plato (left) and Aristotle (right), here illustrated in a fresco by [[Raphael]]. Aristotle gestures to the earth, representing his belief in knowledge through empirical observation. Plato gestures to the heavens, representing his belief in [[The Forms]].<ref name="Johnson 1983 193">{{harvnb|Johnson|1983|pp=193}}</ref>]]
LaRouche's philosophy references an old dispute between Plato and Aristotle. Aristotle believed in knowledge through empirical observation and experience. Plato believed in [[The Forms]].
According to LaRouche, history has always been a battle between [[Platonism|Platonists]]—[[Rationalism|rationalists]], idealists and utopians who believe in absolute truth and the [[Theory of forms|primacy of ideas]]—and [[Aristotelianism|Aristotelians]]—relativists who rely on [[empiricism|empirical]] data and sensory perception. Platonists in LaRouche's worldview include figures such as [[Beethoven]], [[Mozart]], [[Shakespeare]], [[Leonardo da Vinci]], and [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz|Leibniz]]. LaRouche states that many of the world's ills are due to the fact that Aristotelianism, as embraced by British philosophers like Locke, Hume, [[Thomas Hobbes]], [[Jeremy Bentham]] and represented by "oligarchs", foremost among them wealthy British families, has dominated, leading to a culture that favors the empirical over the [[metaphysics|metaphysical]], embraces [[moral relativism]], and seeks to keep the general population uninformed. LaRouche frames this struggle as an ancient one, and sees himself and his movement in the tradition of the [[philosopher-king]]s in Plato's ''[[Republic (Plato)|Republic]]''.<ref>{{harvnb|Toumey|1996|p=85ff.}}
<br />{{*}} {{harvnb|Johnson|1983|pp=187ff.}}
<br />{{*}} {{harvnb|George|Wilcox|1996|pp=285ff.}}
<br />{{*}} For the English empiricists, see also {{harvnb|Robins|Post|1997}}, p. 196.
<br />{{*}} For the list of friends and foes, see {{harvnb|Johnson|1983}}, pp. 22, 188, 192–193.</ref>

LaRouche and his followers use Neoplatonism as the basis for an economic model that posits "the absolute necessity of progress". Economies evolve in stages as humanity devises new technologies, stages that LaRouche compares to the hierarchical spheres in Kepler's model of the solar system based on the [[Platonic solids]]. The purpose of science, technology and business must be to assist this progress, enabling the Earth to support an ever-growing humanity. Human life is the supreme value in LaRouche's world view; environmentalism and [[population control]] are seen as retrogressive steps, promoting a return to the Dark Ages. Rather than curtailing progress, because of dwindling resources, LaRouche advocates using nuclear technology to make more energy available to humanity, freeing humanity to enjoy music and art.{{sfn|Johnson|1983|pp=196, 198}}

[[File:Kepler-solar-system-1.png|right|thumb|Kepler's Platonic solid model of the solar system from ''[[Mysterium Cosmographicum]]'' (1596)]]In LaRouche's view, the people opposing this vision are part of the Aristotelian conspiracy. They may not necessarily be in contact with one another: "From their standpoint, [the conspirators] are proceeding by instinct", LaRouche has said. "If you're asking how their policy is developed—if there is an inside group sitting down and making plans—no, it doesn't work that way ... History doesn't function quite that consciously."{{sfn|Johnson|1983|p=198}} 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, [[anti-abortionist|pro-lifers]], and followers of the Ku Klux Klan—even though LaRouche counts the Klan itself among his foes.

[[George Johnson (writer)|George Johnson]], in ''Architects of Fear'' (1983), has described LaRouche's Neoplatonist conspiracy theory as a "distortion of a real philosophical distinction".<ref name="Johnson 1983 193"/> He has written that the resulting philosophy can be applied to any number of situations in a manner that becomes plausible once one accepts its basic premise. In his view, it forms the foundation of a conspiracy theory that rationalizes paranoid thinking, an opinion echoed by John George and [[Laird Wilcox]] in ''American Extremists: Militias, Supremacists, Klansmen, Communists & Others'' (1996).<ref name=Johnson2>{{harvnb|Copulus|1984}}, p. 2.
<br />{{*}} {{harvnb|Johnson|1983}}, p. 187ff.
<br />{{*}} {{harvnb|George|Wilcox|1996|pp=285ff.}}
<br />{{*}} Also see {{harvnb|Robins|Post|1997|p=194}}. Discussing LaRouche's view of history, they write: "We have found no person who has developed a more complex, or more ingenious, paranoid theory than Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr."
<br />{{*}} For the relationships LaRouche has formed, including with Klan followers, see {{harvnb|Johnson|1989}}.
<br />{{*}} For the list of friends and foes, see {{harvnb|Johnson|1983}}, pp. 22, 188, 192–193. See p. 22 for inclusion of the Klan among his foes.
<br />{{*}} For LaRouche on his philosophy, see {{Cite news|author=LaRouche, Lyndon|url=http://wlym.com/PDF-77-85/CAM7806.pdf|title=The Secrets Known Only to the Inner Elites|work=The Campaigner|date=May–June 1978|pages=5ff|access-date=September 3, 2007|archive-date=June 9, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609111116/http://wlym.com/PDF-77-85/CAM7806.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> 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".{{sfn|Johnson|1989}}

==Conspiracies==
LaRouche wrote that conspiracy was natural in human beings. In 1998, he responded to critics of his conspiracism, such as [[Daniel Pipes]] and said that Pipes wrongly believed that all reports of conspiracy are axiomatically false.

LaRouche's critics, particularly Dennis King and [[Chip Berlet]], characterize his current orientation as being a [[conspiracist]] worldview. 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 [[Mayer Amschel Rothschild family|Rothschild]]s, the [[Rockefeller family|Rockefeller]]s, [[Henry Kissinger]], and the [[Council on Foreign Relations]].<ref name=King1989>{{Cite book | last = King | first = Dennis | year = 1989 | title = Lyndon LaRouche and the new American fascism | isbn = 978-0-385-23880-9 | publisher = Doubleday | location = New York | oclc = 18684318 | url = https://archive.org/details/lyndonlarouchene0000king | url-access = registration }}</ref><ref name=BerletBellman>{{Cite book|last=Berlet|first=Chip|author-link=Chip Berlet|author2=Joel Bellman|year=1989|title=Lyndon LaRouche: Fascism Wrapped in an American Flag|publisher=Political Research Associates|url=http://www.publiceye.org/larouche/nclc1.html|access-date=January 7, 2005|archive-date=August 31, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090831042037/http://www.publiceye.org/larouche/nclc1.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=BerletLyons>{{cite news | last1 = Berlet | first1 = Chip | last2 = Lyons | first2 = Matthew N. | year = 2000 | title = Right-wing populism in America: Too Close for Comfort | isbn = 978-1-57230-562-5 | publisher = Guilford Press | location = New York | oclc = 185635579 | url = https://archive.org/details/rightwingpopulis00berlrich | url-access = registration }}</ref> [[Daniel Pipes]] said that LaRouche personalizes his conspiracy theories, and associates "all of his adversaries with the forces of darkness."<ref>{{Cite book|title=Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From|first =Daniel|last=Pipes|page=12|publisher=Middle East Forum|year= 1999 |isbn=978-0-684-87111-0}}</ref>

The ''[[Executive Intelligence Review]]'' (EIR), a LaRouche publication, ran an "investigative report" titled "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy At It Again, With a New Twist" in 2007.  The article states:
{{blockquote|Perhaps the only name that sends the VRWC gang more into orbit than either Bill and Hillary Clinton, is the name Lyndon LaRouche. The very same apparatus that waged a billion-dollar slander campaign against the President and the First Lady throughout much of the mid- and late 1990s, has an even longer track record of venomous slander and frame-up campaigns against LaRouche and his political movement.

Of course, the reality is that it was the Bush-Cheney campaign, backed by the Scalia Supreme Court, that actually stole the 2000 election in Florida.<ref>[http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2007/3432vast_rtwing_conspiracy.html Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy At It Again, With a New Twist] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111015084610/http://larouchepub.com/other/2007/3432vast_rtwing_conspiracy.html |date=October 15, 2011 }} ''Executive Intelligence Review'', August 17, 2007</ref>}}

In 2001, LaRouche said that rogue elements within the American military took part in, or planned, the [[September 11, 2001, attacks]] as part of a ''coup d'état''.<ref name=Witt>{{cite news|title=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|first=April|last=Witt|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=October 24, 2004|page=W.12|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46883-2004Oct20.html|access-date=August 27, 2009|archive-date=September 26, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110926204322/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46883-2004Oct20.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.schillerinstitute.org/lar_related/lar_brz_122301.html |title=Zbigniew Brzezinski and September 11th |first=Lyndon H |last=LaRouche, Jr |date=December 23, 2001 |access-date=May 22, 2009 |archive-date=June 16, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090616131854/http://www.schillerinstitute.org/lar_related/lar_brz_122301.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

===The "British" conspiracy===
LaRouche is known for alleging conspiracies by the British. LaRouche has said that the dominant imperialist strategic force acting on the planet today is not the United States, but the "Anglo-Dutch liberal system" of the [[British Empire]], which he asserts is an [[oligarchy|oligarchic]] financial consortium like that of medieval [[Republic of Venice|Venice]], more like a "financial slime-mold" than a nation.<ref>{{cite news |last=Vasilyev |first=Mikhail |title=Attacks in India staged by England |url=http://news.km.ru/terakty_v_indii_ustroila_angliya/print |newspaper={{ill|KM.Ru News|ru|Кирилл и Мефодий (компания)}}|date=March 2, 2009 |access-date=October 1, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207114600/http://news.km.ru/terakty_v_indii_ustroila_angliya/print |archive-date=February 7, 2009 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|last=Schenk |first=Vladimir |title=Warmongers |url=http://nacbez.ru/society/article.php?id=1644 |publisher=Project NatsBez.ru |date=April 26, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060524102919/http://nacbez.ru/society/article.php?id=1644 |archive-date=May 24, 2006 }}</ref>

According to [[Chip Berlet]] and Dennis King, LaRouche has always been stridently anti-British and has included [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]], the British Royal Family, and others, in his list of conspirators who are said to control the world's political economy and the international drug trade.<ref name=King1989/><ref name=BerletBellman/><ref>{{cite web |title=THE OUTER LIMITS OF AMERICAN POLITICS – ''Lyndon LaRouche And the New American Fascism'' by Dennis King; ''The Silent Brotherhood: Inside America's Racist Underground'' by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt |author=David J. Garrow |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=July 30, 1989 |url=http://lyndonlarouche.org/review4.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090617221143/http://lyndonlarouche.org/review4.htm |archive-date=2009-06-17 |url-status=usurped |via=lyndonlarouche.org}}</ref> According to Jonathan Vankin and John Whalen, LaRouche is the "most illustrious" [[Anglophobe]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=Eighty greatest conspiracies of all time |author1=Jonathan Vankin |author2=John Whalen |publisher=Citadel Press |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-8065-2531-0}}</ref> These views are reflected in three books authored by members of his organization:

*''Dope, Inc.'' by [[David P. Goldman]], Konstandinos Kalimtgis and Jeffrey Steinberg, 1978 ({{ISBN|0-918388-08-2}}): this book discusses the history of narcotics trafficking, beginning with the [[Opium War]], and alleges that British interests have continued to dominate the field up to the modern era, for example through [[money laundering]] in British [[offshore banking]] colonies. The heart of the conspiracy, according to LaRouche, is the financial elite of the [[City of London]].<!--[these refs need to be specified]<ref name="nbc-queen-01"/><ref name="newsnight1980"/>-->
*''The Civil War and the American System'' by Allen Salisbury, 1979 ({{ISBN|0918388023}}): alleges that British interests encouraged and financed the secession movement and supported the [[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]] against the Union in the [[American Civil War]], because they preferred North America to be a primitive agrarian economy that they could dominate through policies of [[free trade]].
*''The New Dark Ages Conspiracy'' by Carol White, 1980 ({{ISBN|0-933488-05-X}}): alleges that a group of British intellectuals led by [[Bertrand Russell]] and [[H. G. Wells]] attempted to control scientific progress in order to keep the world backward and more easily managed by [[imperialism]]. In this conspiracy theory, Wells wished science to be controlled by some kind of priesthood and kept from the common man, while Russell wished to stifle it altogether by restricting it to a closed system of formal [[logic]], that would prohibit the introduction of new ideas. This conspiracy also involved the promotion of the [[counterculture]].

====The Queen and Prince Philip====
According to book critic and columnist Scott McLemee:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com/2008/05/nbcc-good-reads-3-long-tail-scott.html|title=Blogger|website=bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com|access-date=April 9, 2011|archive-date=July 8, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708030723/http://bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com/2008/05/nbcc-good-reads-3-long-tail-scott.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

<blockquote>The emergence of the [LaRouche Youth Movement] is all the more surprising, given that LaRouche himself has long since become the walking punchline to a very strange joke. He is known for some of the most baroque conspiracy theories ever put into circulation. Members of the LYM now deny that he ever accused the Queen of England of drug trafficking—though in fact, he did exactly that throughout the 1980s. At the time, he won admirers on the extreme right wing by denouncing Henry Kissinger as an agent of the KGB and calling for AIDS patients to be quarantined.<ref name=McLemee>{{cite news |first=Scott |last=McLemee |url=http://www.insidehighered.com/views/mclemee/mclemee132 |title=The LaRouche Youth Movement |work=Inside Higher Ed |date=July 11, 2007 |archive-date=April 17, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110417133920/http://www.insidehighered.com/views/mclemee/mclemee132 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref></blockquote>

In 2004, in a segment about the death of [[Jeremiah Duggan]] during a LaRouche Youth Movement cadre school in Wiesbaden in March 2003, BBC's ''[[Newsnight]]'' re-broadcast a BBC interview with LaRouche from 1980, in which he said about the [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen]]: "Of course she's pushing drugs. That is, in the sense of a responsibility, the head of a gang that is pushing drugs, she knows it's happening and she isn't stopping it."<ref name=Samuels>Samuels, Tim. "Jeremiah Duggan's death and Lyndon LaRouche", ''Newsnight'', BBC, February 2004, at 3:49 of part 1 as hosted on ''YouTube''.</ref>

A 1998 editorial in LaRouche's ''[[Executive Intelligence Review]]'' cited a statement by [[Ambrose Evans-Pritchard]] in ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' that described LaRouche as the "publisher of a book that accuses the Queen of being the world's foremost drug dealer", characterising it as a "bit of black propaganda" and a "reference to the book Dope, Inc., ... which laid bare the role of the London-centered offshore financial institutions and allied intelligence services, in running the global drug trade, from the time of Britain's nineteenth-century Opium Wars against China."<ref>[http://www.larouchepub.com/other/1998/eir_edit_2524.html "LaRouche's enemies are Clinton's enemies"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929095721/http://www.larouchepub.com/other/1998/eir_edit_2524.html |date=September 29, 2007 }}, ''Executive Intelligence Review'', June 12, 1998.</ref> Evans-Pritchard further said LaRouche had claimed that the Queen was involved in the [[Death of Diana, Princess of Wales]].<ref name=Telegraphcult>Pritchard-Evans, Ambrose. [https://web.archive.org/web/20050412210745/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=%2Farchive%2F1998%2F06%2F04%2Fndi104.html "US cult is source of theories"], ''The Daily Telegraph'', June 4, 1998.</ref> The ''Executive Intelligence Review'' responded that Evans-Pritchard's article was "pure fiction", written in response to EIR reporter Jeff Steinberg's appearance on a British [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] television program about the [[Death of Diana, Princess of Wales conspiracy theories|conspiracy theories surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales]]. In a brief part of an interview with Steinberg broadcast the following day by [[Channel 4]]'s ''[[Dispatches (TV series)|Dispatches]]'', Steinberg said that while there was "no smoking gun proof" that Prince Philip asked British intelligence to assassinate Diana, he could not "rule out" the possibility.<ref>Steinberg, Jeffrey, [http://www.larouchepub.com/other/1998/2525_diana_wars.html "New 'Diana Wars' in Britain Put Focus on LaRouche"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070416060853/http://www.larouchepub.com/other/1998/2525_diana_wars.html |date=April 16, 2007 }}, ''Executive Intelligence Review'', June 19, 1998</ref>

===Leo Strauss===
LaRouche's initial essay on the influence of [[Leo Strauss]] within [[neoconservatism]] and the George W. Bush administration, "The Essential Fraud of Leo Strauss", was written in March 2003.<ref name="ZuckertZuckert2006">{{cite book|last1=Zuckert|first1=Catherine|last2=Zuckert|first2=Michael|title=The truth about Leo Strauss: political philosophy and American democracy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P-PpPtGojpoC|year=2006|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-99332-4|pages=11–17}}</ref> In the same year, a series of pamphlets entitled "Children of Satan" later consolidated into a book, began appearing. LaRouche charges that there was a conspiracy dominated by what are called [[Straussians]] (followers of [[Leo Strauss]]) within the Bush administration, and that the dominant personality in this conspiracy was [[Dick Cheney]] (whose photo appears on the cover of the book.) LaRouche claimed that these conspirators deliberately misled the American public and the US Congress in order to initiate the [[2003 invasion of Iraq]]. He writes that the Straussians created the [[Office of Special Plans]] in order to fabricate intelligence and bypass traditional intelligence channels.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3019lar_expose_strauss.html |last=Steinberg |first=Jeffrey |title=LaRouche Exposé of Straussian 'Children of Satan' Draws Blood |work=Executive Intelligence Review |date=May 16, 2003 |access-date=January 10, 2007 |archive-date=February 17, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070217215953/http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3019lar_expose_strauss.html |url-status=live }}</ref> According to LaRouche movement member Tony Papert, an important part of this theory is the LaRouchian analysis of the ideas of Leo Strauss which borrows heavily from the writings of [[Shadia Drury]].<ref>Papert, Tony,  [http://www.larouchepub.com/pr/site_packages/2003/leo_strauss/3015secret_kingdom_ap_.html "The Secret Kingdom of Leo Strauss"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929104500/http://www.larouchepub.com/pr/site_packages/2003/leo_strauss/3015secret_kingdom_ap_.html |date=September 29, 2007 }}, ''Executive Intelligence Review'', April 18, 2003</ref>

[[Robert Bartley]] of ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' has condemned LaRouche's views on this subject, and says that it may have influenced other commentators who subsequently published a similar analysis, such as [[Seymour Hersh]] and [[James Atlas]] in their articles for ''[[The New York Times]]''. Bartley quotes the assertion by LaRouche movement member Jeffrey Steinberg that a "cabal of Strauss disciples, along with an equally small circle of allied neo-conservative and Likudnik fellow-travelers" have plotted a "not-so-silent coup" using the [[September 11 attacks]] as a justification, similar to the [[Reichstag fire]] of 1933. Bartley complains that Strauss's "words are twisted from their meaning" in order to justify the theory.<ref name=Bartley>{{cite news|title=Joining LaRouche In the Fever Swamps|url=http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/rbartley/?id=110003602|first=Robert L.|last=Bartley|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=June 9, 2003|access-date=January 10, 2007|archive-date=December 3, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061203064431/http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/rbartley/?id=110003602|url-status=live}}</ref> Canadian journalist [[Jeet Heer]] has commented that LaRouche's followers "argue that Strauss is the evil genius behind the Republican Party".<ref>{{cite news|title=The philosopher, the late Leo Strauss has emerged as the thinker of the moment in Washington, but his ideas remain mysterious. Was he an ardent opponent of tyranny or an apologist for the abuse of power ? |first=Jeet|last=Heer|work=Boston Globe|date=May 11, 2003|page=H.1}}</ref> Political science scholars [[Catherine Zuckert|Catherine]] and [[Michael Zuckert]] say that LaRouche's writings were the first to connect Strauss to neoconservatism and the Bush foreign policy and initiated the discussion of the topic, though the views about it changed as it percolated through to international journalism.<ref name="ZuckertZuckert2006"/>

===Bush family===
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The ''Executive Intelligence Review'' (EIR) published an article by  [[Anton Chaitkin]] alleging that [[Prescott Bush]] "had persevered with his comrades in the old Auschwitz gang" and that "the smoldering bodies in Auschwitz followed logically upon the race propaganda festival which had been staged by the Harriman-Bush enterprise a decade earlier in New York."<ref>[http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2000/2733_prescott_bush_hitler.html CRIMES OF THE BUSH DYNASTY Dubya's Grandpa and Great-Granddad Helped Put Adolf Hitler into Power] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101217052142/http://larouchepub.com/other/2000/2733_prescott_bush_hitler.html |date=December 17, 2010 }} by Anton Chaitkin, ''Executive Intelligence Review'' August 25, 2000</ref>

EIR published a book, ''George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography'', by [[Webster Tarpley|Webster Griffin Tarpley]] and Anton Chaitkin, in 1992, which said that "virtually all the Nazi trade with the United States was under the supervision of the Harriman-Bush interests", and that "Bush's family had already played a central role in financing and arming Adolf Hitler for his takeover of Germany; in financing and managing the buildup of Nazi war industries for the conquest of Europe and war against the U.S.A.; and in the development of Nazi genocide theories and racial propaganda, with their well-known results. ... The President's family fortune was largely a result of the Hitler project. The powerful Anglo-American family associations, which later boosted him into the Central Intelligence Agency and up to the White House, were his father's partners in the Hitler project."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20081205003007/http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2006/2006_30-39/2006_30-39/2006-37/pdf/43-53_637_stratbush.pdf The Hitler Project]  by Anton Chaitkin, EIR 1992</ref><ref>Gary Indiana (May 18, 2004). [http://www.villagevoice.com/2004-05-18/news/no-such-thing-as-paranoia/1/ "No such thing as paranoia"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100805013316/http://www.villagevoice.com/2004-05-18/news/no-such-thing-as-paranoia/1 |date=August 5, 2010 }}, ''[[The Village Voice]]''</ref>

In 2006, The LaRouche Political Action Committee and EIR published "LaRouche to Rumsfeld: FDR Defeated the Nazis, While Bushes Collaborated", which stated:

{{blockquote|LaRouche blasted Rumsfeld, reminding him that it was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt who defeated Hitler and the Nazis, while many American right-wingers of the 1930s and '40s were promoters of Mussolini, Hjalmar Schacht, and Hermann Goering. And among the extreme American Fascists and Nazis of the period, there were some who openly sympathized with Adolf Hitler, by intention or practice.

"Let us not ignore the role of George Shultz, the man behind the Bush Presidency, the power of Vice President Cheney, and the promotion of Don Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense. Even leading Republicans know Shultz to be an outright totalitarian, who has used the Bush Presidency to impose a 'Pinochet Model' of top-down dictatorship and radical free-market economics upon the United States. Shultz's promotion of the privatization of war, on the SS model, has been backed", LaRouche noted, "by Felix Rohatyn."<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2006/eirv33n37-20060915/eirv33n37-20060915_042-larouche_to_rumsfeld_fdr_defeate.pdf|title=LaRouche to Rumsfeld: FDR Defeated the Nazis, While Bushes Collaborated|work=Executive Intelligence Review|volume=33|issue=37|date=September 15, 2006|pages=42–3|access-date=October 8, 2017|archive-date=August 17, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170817224313/http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2006/eirv33n37-20060915/eirv33n37-20060915_042-larouche_to_rumsfeld_fdr_defeate.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>}}

==PANIC proposal and AIDS==
In 1974, an organisation affiliated to LaRouche predicted that there would be pandemics in Africa.<ref>{{cite news|at=introduction|author=Warren Hammerman|work=EIR Special Report|title=AIDS Global Showdown, Mankind's Total Victory or Total Defeat|date=January 1, 1988}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|author=Baker, Marcia Merry|title=NYC's Big Mac: Rohatyn's Model for Destroying Gov'ts|work=EIR|date=August 25, 2006}}</ref> When [[HIV/AIDS|AIDS]] was first recognized as a medical phenomenon in the early 1980s, LaRouche activists were convinced that this was the pandemic about which the task force had warned. LaRouche and his followers stated (incorrectly) that HIV, the AIDS virus, could be transmitted by casual contact,<ref name=Roderick10-06>{{Cite news| issn = 0458-3035| page = 21| last = Roderick| first = Kevin| title = Paper Tied to LaRouche Attacks Gay Movement| work = Los Angeles Times |date = October 6, 1986}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book| publisher = Rutgers University Press| isbn = 9780813522852| page = 84| last = Toumey| first = Christopher P.| title = Conjuring science| year = 1996}}</ref> citing as supporting evidence the high incidence of the disease in Africa, the Caribbean and southern Florida.<ref name="Air, Mosquitoes 1986. pg. 30">{{Cite news|title=AIDS Spread by Air, Mosquitoes, LaRouche Says|work=Los Angeles Times|date=Jul 13, 1986|page=30}}</ref> LaRouche said that the transmission by insect bite was "thoroughly established".<ref>{{Cite news|title=Strange Twists Mark Prop. 64 Campaign|author=Kevin Roderick|work=Los Angeles Times|date=October 30, 1986|page=25}}</ref> [[John Grauerholz]], medical director of the BHTF, told reporters that the Soviet Union may have started the epidemic and that U.S. health officials aided the Soviets by not doing more to stop AIDS.<ref name=Roderick>{{cite news|title=Decision on AIDS Measure Draws Appeals|author=Kevin Roderick|work=Los Angeles Times|date=Aug 12, 1986|page=3}}</ref>

AIDS became a key plank in LaRouche's platform.<ref name=Roderick10-17/> His slogan was "Spread Panic, not AIDS!"<ref>{{Cite book| publisher = Basic Books| isbn = 9780465022885| page = [https://archive.org/details/gaylahistoryofse00lill/page/308 308]| last = Faderman| first = Lillian| author2 = Stuart Timmons| title = Gay L.A.| date = January 1, 2006| url = https://archive.org/details/gaylahistoryofse00lill/page/308}}</ref> LaRouche's followers created "[[Prevent AIDS Now Initiative Committee]]" (PANIC), which sponsored California Proposition 64, the "LaRouche Initiative", in 1986.  Mel Klenetsky, co-director of political operations for the Larouche-affiliated National Democratic Policy Committee and LaRouche's campaign director,<ref>{{Cite news|title=Democrats Scrutinize Larouche Bloc|author=Robin Toner|work=New York Times|date=March 30, 1986|page=A.22}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=CBS Sells Time To Fringe Candidate For Talk|author=Kerr, Peter|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=January 22, 1984|page=A.23}}</ref> said that there must be universal testing and mandatory quarantining of HIV carriers. "Twenty to 30 million out of 100 million people in central Africa have AIDS", Klenetsky said. "It is spreading because of impoverished economic conditions, and that is a direct result of IMF policies that have destroyed people's means of resisting the disease." Klenetsky said that LaRouche believed that not only drug users and homosexuals are vulnerable to the disease.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Looking at the World As Lyndon LaRouche Sees It; His Enemies List An Eclectic Mix|author=Thomas Oliphant|work=Boston Globe|date=Apr 6, 1986|page=24}}</ref>

The measure was met with strong opposition and was defeated. A second AIDS initiative qualified for the ballot in 1988, but the measure failed by a larger margin. In response to a survey which predicted that 72% of voters would oppose the measure, a spokesman called the poll "an obvious fraud", saying that pollsters deliberately worded questions to prejudice respondents against the initiative. He additionally said that the poll was part of a "big lie ... witch hunt" orchestrated by [[Armand Hammer]] and [[Elizabeth Taylor]].<ref>{{Cite news|title=LaRouche backers repeat anti-AIDS initiative|author=Marc Lifsher|work=Orange County Register|location=Santa Ana, California|date=May 7, 1988|page=A.03}}</ref>

As early as 1985, NDPC members ran for local school boards on a platform of keeping infected students out of school.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Top Issue In Elgin Schools Is Growth|author=Andrew Bagnato|work=Chicago Tribune|date=Oct 31, 1985|page=2}}</ref> In 1986, LaRouche supporters traveled from [[Seattle]] to [[Lebanon, Oregon]] to urge the school board there to reverse a policy that would allow children with AIDS to enroll.<ref name="Seattle Times 1986">{{Cite news|title=Larouche Backer Urges Ban On Aids Victims|work=Seattle Times|date=Apr 16, 1986|page=H.1}}</ref> In 1987, followers tried to organize a boycott of an elementary school in the Chicago neighborhood of [[Pilsen, Chicago|Pilsen]], sending a van with loudspeakers through the district.<ref name="Wrestles With Aids Fears 1987. pg. 1">{{Cite news|title=Pilsen Wrestles With Aids Fears, LaRouche Tactics|author=Karen M Thomas|work=Chicago Tribune|date=Mar 11, 1987|page=1}}</ref> They disrupted an informational meeting and, according to press accounts, told parents that "The blood of your own children will be on your hands if you allow this child with AIDS in your school", or shouted at opponents, "He has AIDS! He has AIDS!"<ref name="School 1987. pg. 12">{{Cite news|title=The High Road When A Child With Aids Comes To School, It Doesn't Have To Be A Crisis|author=David L. Kirp|work=Chicago Tribune|date=Dec 6, 1987|page=12}}</ref>

LaRouche purchased a national TV spot during his 1988 presidential campaign, in which he summarized his views and proposals with respect to the AIDS epidemic. He said most statements about how AIDS is spread were an "outright lie" and that talk of [[safe sex]] was just propaganda put out by the government to avoid spending the money required to address the crisis.<ref>{{Cite news| page = 3| agency = Associated Press| via= Google News Archive Search| work = Deseret News| access-date = 2009-07-06| date = February 5, 1988| url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=336&dat=19880205&id=XP4OAAAAIBAJ&pg=7146,1238472 |title=DEAD LINK}}{{dead link|dte=February 2021|date=February 2021}}</ref>

The AIDS disinformation of the LaRouche movement occurred during the Soviets' [[Operation INFEKTION|Operation "INFEKTION"]] propaganda campaign. According to researcher Douglas Selvage, "a cycle of misinformation and disinformation... arose between U.S.-based conspiracy theorists—especially Lyndon LaRouche and his followers—and authors and publications espousing Moscow's preferred theses regarding AIDS."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Selvage|first=Douglas|date=2019-10-01|title=Operation "Denver": The East German Ministry of State Security and the KGB's AIDS Disinformation Campaign, 1985–1986 (Part 1)|url=https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws_a_00907|journal=Journal of Cold War Studies|volume=21|issue=4|pages=71–123|doi=10.1162/jcws_a_00907|s2cid=204771850|issn=1520-3972|access-date=November 9, 2021|archive-date=May 28, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220528155644/https://direct.mit.edu/jcws/article-abstract/21/4/71/13815/Operation-Denver-The-East-German-Ministry-of-State?redirectedFrom=fulltext|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

LaRouche-affiliated candidates used AIDS as an issue as late as 1994.<ref>{{cite news|title=LaRouche Candidate Stirs Crowd|author=Jo Mannies|work=St. Louis Post–Dispatch|date=Apr 26, 1994|page=02.B}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=LaRouche Disciple Bucks Democrats; Therese Mallory Is Opposing Party-Endorsed Sara Nichols|author=Reid Kanaley|work=Philadelphia Inquirer|date=Apr 20, 1994|page=B.1}}</ref>

Opponents characterized it as an anti-gay measure that would force HIV-positive individuals out of their jobs and into [[quarantine]],<ref>{{Cite news|title=AIDS initiative already causing lots of firework|author=John Marelius|work=The San Diego Union|date=Jun 26, 1986|page=A.3}}</ref> or create "concentration camps for AIDS patients."<ref>{{Cite news|title=LaRouche-Supported Initiative on AIDS Policy In California Spurs Debate on Handling Disease|author=John Emshwiller|work=Wall Street Journal|date=Aug 11, 1986|page=1}}</ref> According to newspaper reports, the LaRouche newspaper ''New Solidarity'' said the initiative was opposed by Communist gangs composed of the "lower sexual classes" and he warned of the recruitment of millions of Americans into the ranks of "AIDS-riddled homosexuality".<ref name=Roderick10-06/>

==Environment and energy==
Meštrović says LaRouche followed [[Vladimir Vernadsky]] in seeing the human mind as a force transforming the [[biosphere]] into a higher form, the [[noösphere]].<ref name="Meštrović" /> LaRouche favored a highly industrialized civilization reaching for innovation and interplanetary colonization. The movement said that the theory of [[Global warming|man-caused global warming]] prevents the development of emerging economies.<ref>Rodriguez, Martin, [https://archive.today/20120906015215/http://www.noticiasurbanas.com.ar/info_item.shtml?sh_itm=706a7882f928529d851429ee8ccfb3fa Iluminados y malditos], ''Noticias Urbanas'', December 5, 2008</ref> It also said that the top level organizations in the command structure of the environmental movement include the [[World Wildlife Fund]], headed by Prince Philip, the [[Aspen Institute]], and the [[Club of Rome]].

According to Chip Berlet, "Pro-LaRouche publications have been at the forefront of denying the reality of global warming".<ref>{{cite web|title=Lyndon LaRouche: Man of Vision or Venom?: What's the Real Story?|first=Chip|last=Berlet|publisher=Political Research Associates|date=September 13, 2007|url=http://www.publiceye.org/larouche/truestory.html|access-date=May 12, 2011|archive-date=May 14, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514144919/http://www.publiceye.org/larouche/truestory.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The LaRouche movement's ''[[21st Century Science & Technology]]'' magazine has been called "anti-environmental" by ''[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]]'' magazine.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://motherjones.com/politics/1997/12/wingnuts-sheeps-clothing|title=Wingnuts in Sheep's Clothing: Meet the kooks and corporations behind the astroturf group called EC|first=Keith|last=Hammond|date=December 4, 1997|work=Mother Jones|access-date=May 12, 2011|archive-date=May 20, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520063755/http://motherjones.com/politics/1997/12/wingnuts-sheeps-clothing|url-status=live}}</ref> LaRouche publications denounced the concept of a [[nuclear winter]], the theory that nuclear war could lead to global cooling, as early as 1983, calling it a "fraud" and a "hoax" popularized by the Soviet Union to weaken the U.S.<ref name="SaganTurco1990">{{cite book|last1=Sagan|first1=Carl|author-link1=Carl Sagan|last2=Turco|first2=Richard P.|author-link2=Richard P. Turco|title=A path where no man thought: nuclear winter and the end of the arms race|url=https://archive.org/details/pathwherenomanth00saga|url-access=registration|date=November 27, 1990|publisher=Random House|isbn=978-0-394-58307-5|pages=[https://archive.org/details/pathwherenomanth00saga/page/315 315]–316}}</ref> Some of the movement's ideas were later adopted by the [[Wise use movement]].<ref name="Kintz1997">{{cite book|last=Kintz|first=Linda|title=Between Jesus and the market: the emotions that matter in right-wing America|url=https://archive.org/details/betweenjesusmark0000kint|url-access=registration|access-date=May 27, 2011|year=1997|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0-8223-1967-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/betweenjesusmark0000kint/page/280 280]}}</ref><ref name="Berry1999">{{cite book|last=Berry|first=Thomas Mary|title=The piracy of America: profiteering in the public domain|url=https://archive.org/details/piracyofamerica00judi|url-access=registration|access-date=May 27, 2011|date=January 1999|publisher=Clarity Press|isbn=978-0-932863-28-7}}</ref><ref name="EbyEcheverria1995">{{cite book|last1=Eby|first1=Raymond Booth|last2=Echeverria|first2=John D.|title=Let the people judge: wise use and the private property rights movement|url=https://archive.org/details/letpeoplejudgewi00eche|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/letpeoplejudgewi00eche/page/105 105]|access-date=May 27, 2011|date=March 1995|publisher=Island Press|isbn=978-1-55963-276-8}}</ref> The LaRouche movement opposed ratification of the [[Convention on Biological Diversity]], which failed in the U.S. Senate in 1994.<ref name="Rowell1996"/><ref>{{cite news|title=BIODIVERSITY TREATY HITS GOP-LAROUCHE ROADBLOCK|first=Jon |last=Margolis |agency=CHICAGO TRIBUNE|work=The Salt Lake Tribune|date=October 2, 1994|page=A.10}}</ref>

===Energy-flux density===
LaRouche asserts a concept ''energy-flux density'', which is the rate of energy use per person and per unit area of the economy as a whole. He asserts that an increase in energy flux density as a fundamental principle of the universe in general (contrary the second law of thermodynamics), and the appropriate destiny or goal for mankind in general. Consequently, policies or ideologies deemed to oppose this increase must be opposed and are foolish and dangerous: for example, moves to decrease energy consumption or improve efficiency, or to reduce consumption, or to reduce population; policies deemed increase it should be pursued: higher energy fuels such as nuclear fuels, higher populations, higher consumption.<ref>Video of LaRouche and others asserting energy-flux density, among numerous subjects {{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiRwF8KXjiA|title=Q2: The Necessity of focusing on the Queen of England|website=[[YouTube]]|date=June 2013 |access-date=April 5, 2019|archive-date=May 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525162207/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiRwF8KXjiA|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Nuclear power===
LaRouche says that nuclear and especially fusion power is necessary for the continued growth of civilization. He founded the [[Fusion Energy Foundation]], which published the journal ''Fusion'' (later renamed to ''21st Century Science & Technology''). In his 1980 presidential platform, LaRouche promised 2500 nuclear power plants if elected.<ref name="Rowell1996">{{cite book|last=Rowell|first=Andrew|title=Green backlash: global subversion of the environmental movement|url=https://archive.org/details/greenbacklashglo0000rowe|url-access=registration|access-date=May 15, 2011|year=1996|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-12828-5}}</ref> In 2007, LaRouche reiterated his position, saying that only the "massive investment" in fission and fusion technology could prevent the "collapse of human existence on this planet".<ref>{{cite news|date=March 9, 2007|work=Executive Intelligence Review|title=The Great Luddite Hoax of 2007|first=Lyndon H.|last=LaRouche, Jr.|url=http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2007/eirv34n10-20070309/04_710_feat.pdf|access-date=May 16, 2011|archive-date=May 21, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521122343/http://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2007/eirv34n10-20070309/04_710_feat.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>

The movement has targeted opponents of nuclear power. Members of the [[Clamshell Alliance]], non-violent protesters at the [[Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant|Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant]] in New Hampshire, were called "terrorists" in 1977. Representatives of LaRouche's [[U.S. Labor Party]] gave incriminating information to law enforcement about them,<ref name="Jones1982">{{cite news|last=Foster|first=Dennis|work=[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ouYDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA53|access-date=May 27, 2011|date=January 1982|title=Teamster Madness|issn=0362-8841}}</ref> which the FBI later determined had been fabricated, according to King.<ref>King (1989) ch.24</ref> During a large demonstration against the plant in 1989, an airplane carried a banner overhead which read, "Free LaRouche! Kill Satan – Open Seabrook".<ref>{{cite news|title=TOWN'S HALL OFF LIMITS TO 'UNCLE SAM' VT. ACTOR ARRESTED FOR BEING DISORDERLY|work=Boston Globe |date=June 5, 1989|page=20}}</ref>

The movement blames cabalists, including then-congressman [[Dick Cheney]], for inciting anti-nuclear sentiments during the late 1970s.<ref name=Ainsworth>{{cite news|title=The New Environmentalist Eugenics: Al Gore's Green Genocide|first=Rob|last=Ainsworth|pages=36–46|date=March 30, 2007|work=Executive Intelligence Review|url=http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2007/eirv34n13-20070330/36-46_713_ainsworth.pdf|access-date=May 16, 2011|archive-date=October 14, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111014203924/http://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2007/eirv34n13-20070330/36-46_713_ainsworth.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> LaRouche sources described the incident at the nuclear power plant at [[Three Mile Island accident|Three Mile Island]] as sabotage, since they considered the control systems too sophisticated to fail by accident.<ref>{{cite news|title=Pro-Nuclear Group Claims Sabotage Caused TMI Accident|work=Indiana Evening Gazette|date=April 8, 1980|page=8}}</ref>

===DDT===
''21st Century Science & Technology'''s managing editor, Marjorie Mazel Hecht, called the campaign against DDT the "'mother' of all the environmental hoaxes".<ref name=Rowell>Rowell (1996) pp 135–136</ref> Other articles compared anti-DDT campaigner [[Rachel Carson]] to Nazi propagandist [[Joseph Goebbels]].<ref name=Rowell/> ''21st century'', which is produced by LaRouche supporters,<ref name=Beder/> has published papers by entomologist [[J. Gordon Edwards (entomologist and mountaineer)|J. Gordon Edwards]], including one that urged the return of the insecticide [[DDT]] because he said it has "saved more millions of lives than any other man-made chemical".<ref>{{cite news|title=Mosquitoes, DDT, and Human Health|first=J. Gordon|last=Edwards|work=[[21st Century Science & Technology]]|url=http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/Fall02/Mosquitoes.html|date=Fall 2002|access-date=May 16, 2011|archive-date=May 19, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519053000/http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/Fall02/Mosquitoes.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Rogelio (Roger) Maduro, an associate editor, wrote that the ban on DDT was part of a plan to reduce the population and had caused the deaths of 40 million people via a resurgence of [[malaria]].<ref name="Helvarg2004">{{cite book|last=Helvarg|first=David|title=The war against the greens: the "Wise-Use" movement, the New Right, and the browning of America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=giTwwvtIkdEC|access-date=May 13, 2011|date=May 2004|publisher=Big Earth Publishing|isbn=978-1-55566-328-5|page=232}}</ref>

===Ozone hole===
LaRouche was part of what was called the "ozone backlash".<ref name=DavidsonFeb>{{cite news|title=Seismologists take hard line on construction|first=KEAY |last=DAVIDSON|work=San Francisco Examiner|date=February 10, 1995|page=A.2}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|first=G.|last=Taubes|title=The Ozone Backlash|journal=Science|volume=260|date=June 11, 1993|doi=10.1126/science.260.5114.1580|pmid=17810191|pages=1580–1583|issue=5114|bibcode=1993Sci...260.1580T}}</ref><ref name="MilburnConrad1998"/> ''21st Century Science & Technology'', which conducted what has been called "a very effective campaign of misinformation on the issue of ozone depletion",<ref name="EhrlichEhrlich1998"/> published ''The Holes in the Ozone Scare'' in 1992.<ref name="MaduroSchauerhammer1992">{{cite book|last1=Maduro|first1=Rogelio|last2=Schauerhammer|first2=Ralf|title=The holes in the ozone scare: the scientific evidence that the sky isn't falling|url=https://archive.org/details/holesinozonesc00madu|url-access=registration|date=July 1992|publisher=21st Century Science Associates|isbn=978-0-9628134-0-5}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=The Holes in the Ozone Hole – The Scientific Evidence That The Sky Isn't Falling: Excerpts from the book|first=Rogelio|last=Maduro|work=American Almanac|date=January 1994|url=http://american_almanac.tripod.com/cfc.htm|access-date=May 12, 2011|archive-date=July 5, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110705030926/http://american_almanac.tripod.com/cfc.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> The book, by LaRouche followers Rogelio Maduro and Ralf Schauerhammer, said that [[chlorofluorocarbon]]s (CFCs) were not destroying the [[ozone layer]] and opposed the proposal to ban them. It asserted that most chlorine in the atmosphere came from oceans, volcanoes, or other natural sources, and that CFCs were too heavy to reach the ozone layer.<ref name=Beder>{{cite book|title=Global spin: the corporate assault on environmentalism|first=Sharon |last=Beder|publisher=Green Books|year=2002|isbn=978-1-903998-09-0|page=94}}</ref><ref name="MilburnConrad1998">{{cite book|last1=Milburn|first1=Michael A.|last2=Conrad|first2=Sheree D.|title=The Politics of Denial|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ntVE1n3g51wC|access-date=May 14, 2011|date=January 10, 1998|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=978-0-262-63184-6|page=211}}</ref><ref name="EhrlichEhrlich1998">{{cite book|last1=Ehrlich|first1=Paul R.|last2=Ehrlich|first2=Anne H.|title=Betrayal of science and reason: how anti-environmental rhetoric threatens our future|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1vkYnktbFK4C|access-date=May 13, 2011|date=January 1, 1998|publisher=Island Press|isbn=978-1-55963-484-7|page=144}}</ref> It went on to say that even if the ozone layer were depleted there would not be any harmful effects from additional ultraviolet radiation.<ref>{{cite book|last=van der Leun|first=J.C. |editor=S. Zwerver|title=Climate change research: evaluation and policy implications : proceedings of the International Climate Change Research Conference, Maastricht, the Netherlands, 6–9 December 1994|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HYkd4Uy41WMC&pg=PA983|date=November 1, 1995|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=978-0-444-82143-0|page=983|chapter=Assessment report on NRP subtheme 'Effects of enhanced UV-B radiation'}}</ref>  It predicted that a ban would result in an additional 20 to 40 million deaths due to food spoilage.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/content/printVersion/161814/|title=FREON EASY: ARIZONA'S REPUBLICAN LEADERS WANT THE STATE TO BUCK FEDERAL LAWS ON CFC PRODUCTION. THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WEIRD SCIENCE MIXES WITH WACKY POLITICS|first=Amy|last=Silverman|date=May 4, 1995|work=Phoenix New Times|access-date=May 12, 2011|archive-date=November 4, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104105454/http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/content/printVersion/161814/|url-status=live}}</ref> Lewis DuPont Smith, an heir to the DuPont Chemical fortune and a LaRouche follower, told Maduro that the DuPont Company had schemed to ban CFCs, which they had invented but which had become generic, in order to replace them with more expensive proprietary compounds.<ref>{{cite news|title=DU PONT HEIR PRESSES CASE ON FITNESS|first=Rich |last=Henson|work=Philadelphia Inquirer|date=December 21, 1989|page=B.8}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=BLOWING A HOLE IN THE TALE OF OZONE|first=Donella H. |last=Meadows|work= St. Louis Post–Dispatch |date=September 7, 1993|page=07.B}}</ref> It has been called "probably the best known and most widely quoted text aimed at debunking the concept of ozone depletion".<ref name="Newton1995">{{cite book|last=Newton|first=David E.|title=The ozone dilemma: a reference handbook|url=https://archive.org/details/ozonedilemmarefe0000newt|url-access=registration|year=1995|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-87436-719-5|page=[https://archive.org/details/ozonedilemmarefe0000newt/page/155 155]}}</ref> Its assertions were repeated by [[Dixy Lee Ray]] in her 1993 book ''Environmental Overkill'', by [[Rush Limbaugh]], and by [[Ronald Bailey]].<ref name="MilburnConrad1998"/><ref name="Newton1995"/> Some atmospheric scientists have said that it is based on poor research.<ref name="MilburnConrad1998"/>

At a 1994 shareholder's meeting, Smith called on DuPont to continue producing CFCs, saying there was no evidence of their harmfulness and that "This is nothing less than genocide".<ref name=Dominguez>{{cite news|title=LOOKING AHEAD AT DUPONT; COST CUTS HELPED IN THE PAST, THE CHAIRMAN SAID.; NOW WHAT'S NEEDED ARE HIGHER SALES AND PRICES|first=Alex |last=Dominguez|work=Philadelphia Inquirer|date=April 28, 1994|page=B.9}}</ref> By 1995 LaRouche was noted as calling the ozone hole a "myth".<ref>{{cite news|title=Ozone hole' found to be twice as big as last year It's now about the size of Europe|first=Keay |last=Davidson|work=San Francisco Examiner|date=September 13, 1995|page=A.2}}</ref> Maduro's writings were the basis for the Arizona legislature's passage of a 1995 bill to allow the production of CFCs in the state despite federal and international prohibitions.<ref name="CroninKennedy1997">{{cite book|last1=Cronin|first1=John| last2=Kennedy | first2=Robert F. Jr. |title=The Riverkeepers: two activists fight to reclaim our environment as a basic human right|url=https://archive.org/details/riverkeeperstwoa00cron|url-access=registration|access-date=May 13, 2011|year=1997|publisher=Scribner|isbn=978-0-684-83908-0}}</ref>

===Global warming===

''The "Greenhouse effect" hoax: a world federalist plot'', another book by Maduro, says that the theory of anthropogenic [[global warming]] (AGW) is a plot by the British royal family and communists to undermine the U.S.<ref name="Maduro1989">{{cite book|last1=Maduro|first1=Rogelio|author2=EIR staff|title=The "Greenhouse effect" hoax: a world federalist plot|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fgFEAQAAIAAJ|access-date=May 16, 2011|year=1989|work=Executive Intelligence Review|archive-date=July 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210717131127/https://books.google.com/books?id=fgFEAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Paranoia within reason: a casebook on conspiracy as explanation |first=George E. |last=Marcus |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=1999 |page=130 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WJOknreVQJsC&pg=PA130 |isbn=9780226504575 |access-date=October 9, 2016 |archive-date=July 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210717131127/https://books.google.com/books?id=WJOknreVQJsC&pg=PA130 |url-status=live }}</ref> It was cited by science writer [[David Bellamy]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Monbiot|first=George|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2005/may/10/environment.columnists|title=Junk science: David Bellamy's inaccurate and selective figures on glacier shrinkage are a boon to climate change deniers|work=The Guardian|date=May 10, 2005|location=London|access-date=December 13, 2016|archive-date=March 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170315035623/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2005/may/10/environment.columnists|url-status=live}}</ref>

LaRouche followers have promoted the documentary ''[[The Great Global Warming Swindle]]'' and attacked [[Al Gore]]'s ''[[An Inconvenient Truth]]'', infiltrating showings to promote their viewpoints.<ref>{{cite news|title=EARTH DAY 2007 / Regular folks join Gore's fight to rescue the planet|first=Patricia |last=Yollin|work=San Francisco Chronicle|date=April 22, 2007|page=A.1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Lyndon LaRouche group hacks Swindle debate |first1=Michael |last1=Bodey |first2=Matthew |last2=Warren |work=The Australian |date=July 14, 2007 |url=http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/television/radicals-hijack-swindle-debate/story-e6frfmyi-1111113954601 |access-date=May 12, 2011 |archive-date=May 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220528155642/https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/television/radicals-hijack-swindle-debate/story-e6frfmyi-1111113954601 |url-status=live }}</ref> They have stood on street corners proclaiming the falsity of global warming,<ref>{{cite news|title=Celebrating Independence|first1=Bob |last1=Warner|first2=Chris |last2=Brennan|work=Knight Ridder Tribune Business News|location=Washington|date=July 5, 2006|page=1}}</ref> and have protested Gore's appearances.<ref>{{cite news |title=Al Gore's Assault on the Upper East Side |first=Miriam |last=Datskovsky |work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |date=May 25, 2007 |url=https://nymag.com/daily/intel/2007/05/gore.html |access-date=February 20, 2020 |archive-date=May 17, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517153818/http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2007/05/gore.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

''[[21st Century Science & Technology]]'' has published papers by [[climate change]] contrarians including [[Zbigniew Jaworowski]], [[Nils-Axel Mörner]], Hugh Ellsaesser, and Robert E. Stevenson. A 2007 article by LaRouche science advisor Laurence Hecht suggested that the varying levels of cosmic rays, whose change is dependent on Earth's motion through the galaxy, has a larger effect on the climate than local factors such as greenhouse gases or solar and orbital cycles.<ref>{{cite news|title=Cosmoclimatology, Kepler, and Moon's Model of the Nucleus|first=Laurence|last=Hecht|work=Executive Intelligence Review|date=March 9, 2007|pages=19–21|url=http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2007/eirv34n10-20070309/19_710_feat.pdf|access-date=May 16, 2011|archive-date=May 21, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521122516/http://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2007/eirv34n10-20070309/19_710_feat.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley|Christopher Monckton]] was praised as the leading spokesman of the "global warming swindle" in the introduction to an ''[[Executive Intelligence Review]]'' interview with him in 2009, but he was also considered to have a relatively limited view of the cabal behind the hoax.<ref>{{cite news|title=Interview: Lord Christopher Monckton: Destroying National Sovereignty: The Real Face of 'Global Warming'|first=Gregory |last=Murphy|date=June 12, 2009|work=Executive Intelligence Review|pages=47–50}}</ref> A movement newsletter says that environmental groups seek to "force ... CO2 emissions agreements down the throats of governments as a way of finishing off the nation-state system" on behalf of synarchist networks.<ref name=Ainsworth/>

==Music and science==
LaRouche was fascinated by musical theory, as well as mathematics and physics, and this fascination also translates into his teachings; his followers for example have attempted to link the musical scale to his Neoplatonist model of economic evolution, and study singing and geometry. A common teaser used by the movement is to ask people whether they know how to "double the square"—draw a square whose area is twice the size of an existing square. A motto of LaRouche's European Workers' Party is "Think like Beethoven"; movement offices typically include a piano and posters of German composers, and members are known for their choral singing at protest events, using satirical lyrics tailored to their targets.<ref>For LaRouche's interests, see LaRouche, Lyndon. "Correspondence: Classical Composition", ''The New Republic'', December 26, 1988.
<br />{{*}} For the movement's interests, see {{Cite news|author=Roderick. Kevin|title=Raid Stirs Reports of LaRouche's Dark Side|work=Los Angeles Times|date=October 14, 1986}}
<br />{{*}} For "Think like Beethoven", see {{Cite news|author=Smith, Susan J.|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aiwrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HnIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1095,596948&dq=bonn+exhibit+depicts+germany%27s+beethoven+cult&hl=en|title=Bonn exhibit depicts Germany's Beethoven cult|agency=Associated Press|date=September 29, 1986|access-date=October 9, 2016|archive-date=October 17, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017120129/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aiwrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HnIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1095,596948&dq=bonn+exhibit+depicts+germany%27s+beethoven+cult&hl=en|url-status=live}}
<br />{{*}} For singing at events, see {{Cite news|author=Fitzgerald, Michael|title=Plenty of weirdness in 2007|work=The Record|location=Stockton, California|date=January 2, 2008}}
<br />{{*}} For an example of a LaRouche choir singing at a protest, see {{Cite news|author=Milbank, Dana|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/26/AR2005042601248.html|title=Where Does the Bean Soup Fit In?|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=April 27, 2005|access-date=September 17, 2017|archive-date=December 10, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161210083822/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/26/AR2005042601248.html|url-status=live}}
<br />{{*}} {{Cite news|author=Roddy, Dennis|title=LaRouchies, Anarchists doth protest, but not too much|work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|date=July 30, 2004}}
<br />{{*}} {{Cite news|author=Yamamura, Kevin|title=Governor begins Mexico visit with praise for Dems|work=Knight Ridder Tribune Business News|date=November 10, 2006}}
<br />{{*}} For doubling the square, see {{Cite news|author=Witt, April|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46883-2004Oct20_2.html|title=No joke|newspaper=Washington Post|date=October 24, 2004|access-date=September 17, 2017|archive-date=September 21, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170921174405/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46883-2004Oct20_2.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

LaRouche and his wife had an interest in classical music up to [[Johannes Brahms]]. LaRouche abhorred contemporary music; holding that rock music is subversive, and was deliberately created to be so by British intelligence.<ref>For rock, see {{Cite news|author=Hume, Ellen|title=LaRouche Trying to Lose Splinter Label|work=Los Angeles Times|date=February 1980}}
<br />{{*}} for the Beatles, see [https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/410201901.html?dids=410201901:410201901&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Sep+23%2C+2003&author=Jeff+Pearlman.+STAFF+WRITER&pub=Newsday+%28Combined+editions%29&desc=Lyndon+LaRouche%27s+LONG+Campaign+%2F+He+ran+one+presidential+campaign+from+a+federal+jail+cell+and+can%27t+even+vote+for+himself%2C+but+the+quadrennial+candidate+is+back+on+the+stump+again&pqatl=google Pearlman, September 23, 2003] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107165346/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/410201901.html?dids=410201901:410201901&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Sep+23%2C+2003&author=Jeff+Pearlman.+STAFF+WRITER&pub=Newsday+%28Combined+editions%29&desc=Lyndon+LaRouche%27s+LONG+Campaign+%2F+He+ran+one+presidential+campaign+from+a+federal+jail+cell+and+can%27t+even+vote+for+himself%2C+but+the+quadrennial+candidate+is+back+on+the+stump+again&pqatl=google |date=November 7, 2012 }}.</ref> LaRouche is quoted as saying that [[jazz]] music was "foisted on black Americans by the same oligarchy which had run the U.S. slave trade".<ref>{{cite news|title=Jewish Group Hits Out Again At LaRouche|work=San Francisco Chronicle|date=May 22, 1986}}</ref> This dislike for modern music also extends to classical music the movement disapproves of; LaRouche movement members have protested at performances of [[Richard Wagner]]'s operas, denouncing Wagner as an anti-Semite who found favor with the Nazis, and called a conductor "satanic" because he played contemporary music.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/05/las-ring-cycle-begins-with-protests-outside-mixed-reaction-inside.html|last=Ng|first=David|work=Los Angeles Times|date=May 30, 2010|title=L.A.'s 'Ring' cycle begins with protests outside, mixed reaction inside|access-date=March 26, 2011|archive-date=February 4, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110204171719/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/05/las-ring-cycle-begins-with-protests-outside-mixed-reaction-inside.html|url-status=live}}<br />{{*}} {{cite news|last=Ng|first=David |title=Protesters greet start of 'Ring'|work=Los Angeles Times |date=May 31, 2010}}</ref>

In 1988, LaRouche advocated that classical orchestras should return to the "Verdi pitch", a pitch that [[Giuseppe Verdi]] had enshrined in Italian legislation in 1884. Orchestras' pitches have risen since the 18th century, because a higher pitch produces a more brilliant orchestral sound, while imposing an additional strain on singers' voices. Verdi succeeded in 1884 in having legislation passed in Italy that fixed the reference pitch for [[A (musical note)|A]] at 432&nbsp;Hz, but in 1938, the international standard was raised to 440&nbsp;Hz, with some major orchestras tuning as high as 450&nbsp;Hz in recent times. LaRouche spoke about the resulting strain on singers' voices in his 1988 presidential campaign videos. By 1989 the initiative had attracted support from more than 300 opera stars, including [[Joan Sutherland]], [[Plácido Domingo]],  [[Luciano Pavarotti]] and [[Montserrat Caballé]]. While many of these singers may or may not have been aware of LaRouche's politics, [[Renata Tebaldi]] and [[Piero Cappuccilli]] ran for the European Parliament on LaRouche's "Patriots for Italy" platform and appeared as featured speakers at a conference organised by the [[Schiller Institute]]. (The institute was founded by LaRouche and his wife, [[Helga Zepp-LaRouche|Helga]].)<ref name="Boyes">{{cite news|last=Boyes|first=Roger|author-link=Roger Boyes|url=https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/europe-travel/blame-the-jews-scr5svbhz0q|title=Blame the Jews|work=[[The Times]]|location=London (UK)|date=November 7, 2003|access-date=October 4, 2019|page=4|archive-date=August 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805105524/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/blame-the-jews-scr5svbhz0q|url-status=live}}{{subscription required}}</ref> The discussions led to debates in the Italian parliament about reinstating Verdi's legislation. LaRouche himself gave an interview to [[National Public Radio]] on the initiative in 1989 from prison. [[Stefan Zucker]], the editor of ''Opera Fanatic'' (and, incidentally, the "world's highest tenor") opposed the initiative on the grounds that it would result in the establishment of a "pitch police", arguing that the way it presented the history of the tuning pitch was a "simplification", and that LaRouche was using the issue to gain credibility. The initiative in the Italian Senate failed to result in corresponding legislation being passed.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/timesdispatch/access/615637631.html?dids=615637631:615637631&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Sep+16%2C+1989&author=Francis+Church&pub=Richmond+Times+-+Dispatch&desc=SHALL+LYNDON+LAROUCHE+CALL+THE+TUNING+PITCH%3F&pqatl=google|title=Shall Lyndon LaRouche call the tuning pitch?|work=Richmond Times Dispatch|date=September 16, 1989}}{{dead link|date=February 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
<br />{{*}} {{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hv4gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NXQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2431,360446&dq=larouche+verdi+tuning&hl=en|title=Eavesdropping|work=The Hour|date=May 2, 1989|access-date=October 9, 2016|archive-date=October 17, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017120129/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hv4gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NXQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2431,360446&dq=larouche+verdi+tuning&hl=en|url-status=live}}.
<br />{{*}} {{cite news|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1193003.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105190322/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1193003.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 5, 2012|title=Lyndon LaRouche's Pitch Battle; At Lisner, a Concert With A Verdi Special Difference|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=May 27, 1989}}<br />{{*}} {{Cite news|author=Abdella, Fred T.|url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0716FC3D540C708DDDA10894D1484D81&pagewanted=all|title=As Pitch in Opera Rises, So Does Debate|work=The New York Times|date=August 13, 1989|access-date=February 20, 2017|archive-date=May 28, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220528151552/https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0716FC3D540C708DDDA10894D1484D81&pagewanted=all&legacy=true&status=nf|url-status=live}}
<br />{{*}} {{Cite news|author=McLemee, Scott|url=http://www.insidehighered.com/views/mclemee/mclemee132|title=The LaRouche Youth Movement|work=[[Inside Higher Ed]]|date=July 11, 2007|access-date=March 26, 2011|archive-date=April 17, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110417133920/http://www.insidehighered.com/views/mclemee/mclemee132|url-status=live}}</ref>

LaRouche considered pitch important, believing that the Verdi pitch has a direct relation to the structure of the universe, and that [[bel canto]] singing at the correct pitch maximizes the music's impact on both singers and listeners.<ref>McLemee, Scott. [https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2007/07/11/larouche-youth-movement "The LaRouche Youth Movement"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117010749/https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2007/07/11/larouche-youth-movement |date=November 17, 2020 }}, ''[[Inside Higher Ed]]'', July 11, 2007</ref>

==Opposition to Obama's health reforms==

LaRouche's organization opposed the Obama administration's [[Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act|health-care reform]] proposals.{{Why|date=June 2018}} Posters of Obama wearing a Hitler-style mustache appeared at a LaRouche movement rally.<ref>{{cite news|title=Obama's plan blasted as Nazi-like: LaRouche demonstrations across the North Fork question health care policy|work=The Suffolk Times|location=Long Island, New York|date=July 23, 2009|first=Erin|last=Schultz|url=http://www2.timesreview.com/ST/Stories/T071609_Obama_ES|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218141859/http://www2.timesreview.com/ST/Stories/T071609_Obama_ES|archive-date=February 18, 2012|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

As town-hall meetings on this issue during the summer of 2009 began to attract very large and angry crowds, the comparison of Obama to Hitler began to show up on many signs and banners. ''[[The Atlantic]]'' wrote that LaRouche supporters "patented the Obama-is-Nazi theme".<ref>{{cite news |first=Marc |last=Ambinder |title=The Town Halls, Independents, And Lyndon LaRouche |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2009/08/the-town-halls-independents-and-lyndon-larouche/23208/ |newspaper=The Atlantic |date=August 13, 2009 |access-date=June 15, 2017 |archive-date=March 14, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314024649/http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2009/08/the-town-halls-independents-and-lyndon-larouche/23208/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Sexuality and politics==
{{Primary sources section|date=July 2024}} 
In 1973, LaRouche wrote an article called "Beyond Psychoanalysis".  He theorized that each culture had characteristic flaws that resulted in blocks to effective political organizing. LaRouche and his colleagues conducted studies of different "national ideologies", including German, French, Italian, English, Latin American, Greek, and Swedish.<!-- [this link no longer appear to work]<ref>http://www.ex-iwp.org/docs/1973/beyondpsychoanalysis.htm {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref> --><ref>LaRouche, Lyndon, [http://www.larouchepub.com/lar/2001/2825_greenspin.html "Marat, De Sade, And `Greenspin'"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929095740/http://www.larouchepub.com/lar/2001/2825_greenspin.html |date=September 29, 2007 }}, ''Executive Intelligence Review'', June 29, 2001</ref>

In an article, "The Sexual Impotency of the [[Puerto Rican Socialist Party]]", LaRouche criticised [[Machismo]].  Regarding the role of women, he adds, "The task of real women's liberation is to generally strengthen women's self-consciousness and their power and opportunities to act upon self-consciousness."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ex-iwp.org/related001.php |title=The sexual impotence of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party |access-date=August 16, 2007 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120723211253/http://ex-iwp.org/related001.php |archive-date=July 23, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

==Minority politics==

Critics say the movement is [[antisemitic]], [[Conspiracy theory|conspiracist]], and [[Anti-LGBT rhetoric|anti-LGBT]], and that its political and economic proposals are a cover for its actual beliefs.<ref>[[Chip Berlet|Berlet, Chip]]. "Protocols to the Left, Protocols to the Right: Conspiracism in American Political Discourse at the Turn of the Second Millennium." Reconsidering "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion": 100 Years After the Forgery, October 30–31, 2005, Boston<br />¤ Berlet, Chip & Bellman Joe. [http://www.publiceye.org/larouche/nclc1.html "Lyndon LaRouche: Fascism Wrapped in an American Flag"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090831042037/http://www.publiceye.org/larouche/nclc1.html |date=August 31, 2009 }}, Political Research Associates, March 10, 1989<br />¤ Berlet, Chip & Lyons, Matthew. [http://www.publiceye.org/larouche/synthesis.html ''Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050207135000/http://www.publiceye.org/larouche/synthesis.html |date=February 7, 2005 }}, Guilford, 2000. {{ISBN|1-57230-562-2}}</ref><ref>King, Dennis. ''Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism'', New York: Doubleday, 1989. {{ISBN|0-385-23880-0}} Online text at [http://lyndonlarouchewatch.org/newamericanfascism.htm here] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071022200156/http://lyndonlarouchewatch.org/newamericanfascism.htm |date=October 22, 2007 }}<br />¤ Mintz, John. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/larouche/main.htm "Ideological Odyssey: From Old Left to Far Right"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514001206/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/larouche/main.htm |date=May 14, 2011 }}, ''The Washington Post'', January 14, 1985<br />{{Cite news|author=Wohlforth, Tim|url=http://www.publiceye.org/larouche/Wohlforth.html|title=A '60's Socialist Takes a Hard Right|publisher=Political Research Associates|date=March 16, 2006|access-date=December 29, 2005|archive-date=January 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125020518/http://www.publiceye.org/larouche/Wohlforth.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Helmut Lorscheid/Leo A. Müller|title=Deckname Schiller – Die deutschen Patrioten des Lyndon LaRouche|publisher=Reinbek|date=1986}}</ref>

===Homosexuality===
During the 1980s, LaRouche and his supporters made comments that were seen as anti-gay.{{clarification needed|date=January 2024}}<ref name=Roderick10-17>{{Cite news| issn = 0458-3035| page = 3| last = Roderick| first = Kevin| title = LaRouche Wrote of Using AIDS to Win Presidency| work = Los Angeles Times| date = October 17, 1986}}</ref><ref name=Berlet>{{Cite book| publisher = South End Press| isbn = 9780896085237| page = 99| last = Berlet| first = Chip| title = Eyes right!| year = 1995}}</ref> A LaRouche-affiliated newspaper wrote that demonstrators against the LaRouche-sponsored AIDS initiative in California were from the "lower sexual classes."<ref>{{Cite news|author=Roderick, Kevin|title=Paper Tied to LaRouche Attacks Gay Movement|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-10-06-mn-4531-story.html|work=Los Angeles Times|date=October 6, 1986|access-date=February 20, 2020|archive-date=August 9, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809041253/http://articles.latimes.com/1986-10-06/news/mn-4531_1_larouche-supporters|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Judaism and Zionism===
British journalist [[Roger Boyes]] wrote, "Anti-Semitism is at the core of LaRouche's conspiracy theories, which he adapts to modern events — most recently the [[Iraq War|war]] in [[Iraq]]."<ref name="Boyes" /> Daniel Levitas wrote in 1995 that LaRouche "has been consistent in creating and elaborating conspiracy theories that contain a strong dose of antisemitism".<ref>{{Cite book|author=Daniel Levitas|title=Antisemitism and the Far Right: "Hate" Groups, White Supremacy, and the Neo-Nazi Movement|editor=[[Jerome Chanes|Jerome A. Chanes]]|work=Antisemitism in America Today: Outspoken Experts Explode the Myths|location=New York|publisher=Birch Lane Press/Carol Publishing|date=1995|pages=191–192}}</ref> As an example of LaRouche's alleged antisemitism, Dennis King cited LaRouche's statement (under the pen name L. Marcus) in ''The Case of Ludwig Feuerbach'' (1973), "Jewish culture ... is merely the residue left to the Jewish home after everything saleable has been marketed to the [[Goyim]]."<ref>{{cite book |chapter=The Jewish Question |chapter-url=http://lyndonlarouche.org/fascism6.htm |title=Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism |first=Dennis |last=King |year=1989 |publisher=Doubleday |isbn=978-0-385-23880-9 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/lyndonlarouchene0000king }}</ref>

The charge of antisemitism in the LaRouche network resurfaced in the media in 2004 in accounts of the death of a Jewish student, [[Jeremiah Duggan]], who had been attending a Schiller Institute event in Germany. British press reports described LaRouche as "the American leader of a sect with a fascist and antisemitic ideology".<ref>{{cite news|title=National: Courts: Victory for family of man found dead in Germany|first=Afua|last=Hirsch|work=The Guardian|location=London (UK)|date=November 6, 2008|page=20}}</ref>

LaRouche denied over a long period that his movement is antisemitic.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sj-r.com/firstinprint/x227288797/First-in-Print-Former-LaRouche-aide-lands-state-job |title=Former LaRouche aide lands state job |first=Bernard |last=Schoenberg |date=July 5, 2010 |access-date=September 5, 2010 |archive-date=July 27, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100727055334/http://www.sj-r.com/firstinprint/x227288797/First-in-Print-Former-LaRouche-aide-lands-state-job |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2006, LaRouche said, "Religious and racial hatred, such as anti-Semitism [is] the most evil expression of criminality to be seen on the planet today."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://larouchepub.com/lar/2006/3339_pope_press_hoax.html |title=Britain's Bernard Lewis and His Crimes |date=September 17, 2006 |first=Lyndon H. |last=LaRouche, Jr |access-date=December 5, 2010 |archive-date=December 17, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101217180807/http://larouchepub.com/lar/2006/3339_pope_press_hoax.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Debra Freeman, a spokesperson for LaRouche, told a newspaper in 2010 that, "Hitler was a lunatic, but his policies were based principally on economic policy and staying in power. We mourn the loss of six million Jews and countless others."<ref>{{cite news |title=Larouche supporters make their case on the Taunton Green on Election Day |date=November 3, 2010 |first=CHARLES |last=WINOKOOR |work=Taunton Gazette |url=http://my.ojornal.com/sports-news/larouche-supporters-make-their-case-taunton-green-election-day |archive-date=August 22, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110822205623/http://my.ojornal.com/sports-news/larouche-supporters-make-their-case-taunton-green-election-day |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref>

LaRouche's critics have said he is a "disguised anti-Semite", in that he takes the classical antisemitic conspiracy theory and substitutes the word "Zionist" for the word "Jew", and ascribes the classical antisemitic caricature of the "scheming Jew" to particular Jewish individuals and groups of Jews, rather than to the Jews as a whole.<ref name=King1989/><ref name=BerletBellman/><ref name=BerletLyons/><ref name=Berlet2005>{{Cite conference|last=Berlet|first=Chip|title=Protocols to the Left, Protocols to the Right: Conspiracism in American Political Discourse at the Turn of the Second Millennium (dedicated to Jeremiah Duggan) | conference = Reconsidering "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion": 100 Years After the Forgery | location = The Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies, Boston University|date= October 30–31, 2005}}</ref> "Modern Zionism was not created by Jews, but was a project developed chiefly by [[Oxford University]]", LaRouche says. He says, "Zionism is not Judaism."<ref name="Zionism is not Judaism,">Special issue, [http://wlym.com/PDF-77-85/CAM7812.pdf "Zionism is not Judaism,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071202135035/http://wlym.com/PDF-77-85/CAM7812.pdf |date=December 2, 2007 }} ''Campaigner'', December 1978</ref> In 1978, the same year LaRouche's article cited ''[[Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion|The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion]]'', the LaRouche group published ''Dope, Inc.: Britain's Opium War against the U.S.'', which cited the Protocols and defended its authenticity, likening the "Elders of Zion" to the [[Rothschild family|Rothschild]] banking family, the [[British Royal family]], and the [[Italian Mafia]], and the Israeli [[Mossad]], [[Albert Pike|General Pike]], and the [[B'nai B'rith]]. Later editions left out cites to ''The Protocols''. This is the genesis of the claim that LaRouche has said Queen Elizabeth runs drugs. When asked by an [[NBC News|NBC]] reporter in 1984 about the Queen and drug running, LaRouche replied, "Of course she's pushing drugs ... that is in a sense of responsibility: the head of a gang that is pushing drugs; she knows it's happening and she isn't stopping it."<ref>(NBC News, First Camera, March 4, 1984, transcript from NBC News, excerpt used with permission).</ref>

[[Chip Berlet]] argues that LaRouche indirectly expresses antisemitism through the use of "coded language" and by attacking [[neoconservatives]].<ref name=Berlet2005/> Dennis King maintains, for example, that words like "British" were really code words for "Jew".{{sfn|George|Wilcox|1996|p={{page needed|date=February 2021}}}} Other critics of LaRouche believe that LaRouche's anti-British statements disparage the British system rather than the Jewish religion. [[Laird Wilcox]] and John George write that, "Dennis King goes to considerable lengths to paint LaRouche as a neo-Nazi, even engaging in a little conspiracy-mongering of his own."{{sfn|George|Wilcox|1996|p={{page needed|date=July 2024}}}}

===Race===
[[Manning Marable]] of [[Columbia University]] wrote in a 1997 column that LaRouche had a "long attempted to destroy and manipulate black leaders, political organizations and the black church".<ref>{{cite news |title=No Compromise with Racism: Farrakhan, Chavis and Lyndon La Rouche – Part One of a Two Part Series |author-link=Manning Marable|first=Manning |last=Marable|date= January 17, 1997 |work=Columbus Free Press}}</ref>{{sfn|Marable|1998|p=[https://archive.org/details/blackleadership00mara/page/177 177]}}

During LaRouche's slander suit against NBC in 1984, [[Roy Innis]], leader of the [[Congress of Racial Equality]], took the stand for LaRouche as a character witness, stating under oath that LaRouche's views on racism were "consistent with his own." Asked whether he had seen any indication of racism in LaRouche's associates, he replied that he had not.{{sfn|George|Wilcox|1992|pp=317, 322}} Innis received criticism from many blacks for having testified on LaRouche's behalf.{{sfn|Marable|1998|p={{page needed|date=February 2021}}}}<ref>Bivins, Larry. "Frist embraces King's legacy", ''USA Today'', January 21, 2003.</ref>

The African-American civil-rights leader [[James Bevel]] was LaRouche's running mate in the 1992 presidential election, and in the mid-1990s, the LaRouche movement entered into an alliance with [[Louis Farrakhan]]'s [[Nation of Islam]].{{sfn|Marable|1998|pp=177–182}} Another LaRouche movement member with a record in civil-rights issues is [[Amelia Boynton Robinson]], then the vice-president of the Schiller Institute, a LaRouche organization; she has described the movement as following in the footsteps of [[Martin Luther King Jr.]]: "Mr. {{sic|And}} Mrs. LaRouche built a movement, taking up where Dr. King had left off. They realized ... there must be {{sic|an}} universal image of mankind, which transcends all racial differences and barriers."<ref>{{cite news|title=Pres. candidate LaRouche spurs support, controversy |date= October 1, 2003 |url=https://www.michigandaily.com/uncategorized/pres-candidate-larouche-spurs-support-controversy/ |work=[[Michigan Daily]] |access-date=July 31, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-85200835.html|title=LaRouche supporter discusses civil rights movement at U. Michigan|work=[[Michigan Daily]] |date=October 2, 2003}}{{dead link|date=February 2019|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref> {{cite news|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-79520133.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160108145252/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-79520133.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 8, 2016|title=Civil Rights Heroine Wins Iranian Hearts|work=[[The Oakland Post (Michigan)|Oakland Post]]|date=July 17, 2002}}</ref>

==Accusations of fascism against the LaRouche movement==
[[File:Laroucheobamahitler.JPG|thumb|LaRouche supporter sign portraying Barack Obama with a "[[Hitler mustache]]"]]

LaRouche's movement has frequently been accused of being fascist. Those making the accusation include Democratic National Committee chairman [[Paul G. Kirk]],<ref>{{cite news|title=PRESIDENT'S NEWS CONFERENCE ON FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC ISSUES|work=The New York Times|date=August 13, 1986|page=A.18}}</ref> a local Texas Democratic district committee,<ref>{{cite news|title=White, GOP brass come out swinging on convention rounds|work=Houston Chronicle |date=May 18, 1986|page=37}}</ref> and Democratic activist [[Bob Hattoy]].<ref>{{cite news|title=ELECTIONS '88 39TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT Marquis Finds LaRouche Link Wins Enemies|first=DANA |last=PARSONS|work=Los Angeles Times |date=October 19, 1988|page=1}}</ref>

Dennis King, a former [[Marxist–Leninist]] and member of the [[Progressive Labor Party (United States)|Progressive Labor Party]] in the 1960s and early 1970s, used this thesis in the title of his book-length study of LaRouche and his movement, ''Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism'' (1989). ''[[Lyndon LaRouche#1973: Political shift; "Operation Mop-Up"|Operation Mop-Up]]'', which is said to have consisted of violent physical attacks on left-wing meetings, is used as a basis for such accusations.<ref>"Chronology of Labor Committee Attacks", issued by New York Committee to Stop Terrorist Attacks, 1973;<br />{{*}} contemporary articles and photographs in the ''Daily World'', the ''Militant'', ''Workers Power'', the ''Fifth Estate'', the ''Boston Phoenix'', and the ''Drummer'';<br />{{*}}  "An Introduction to NCLC: The Word is Beware", Liberation New Service, #599, March 23, 1974;<br />{{*}} Charles M. Young, "Mind Control, Political Violence & Sexual Warfare: Inside the NCLC", Crawdaddy, June 1976, p. 48–56;<br />{{*}} TIP, 1976, NCLC: Brownshirts of the Seventies, Arlington, Virginia: Terrorist Information Project (TIP)</ref>

{{ill|Andrei Fursov|ru|Фурсов, Андрей Ильич}}, a Russian historian and academician at the International Academy of Sciences in Innsbruck, Austria, was interviewed in 2012 by the Russian think tank and web portal ''Terra America'' and asked to comment on the characterizations of LaRouche in Western media. He replied that intellectuals who have called LaRouche a fascist do not deserve to be called intellectuals, and that the charge has no basis in any real scientific analysis of politics. According to Fursov, it comes from the fact that LaRouche criticizes the supposedly "democratic" but actually "liberal totalitarian" system of the West. Fursov said that in Russia not so many people know of LaRouche and that the important thing is not the quantity, but the quality.<ref>Benedictine, Kyrill, interview with Andrei Fursov, [http://terra-america.ru/intellektuali-nazivaushie-larusha-fashistom-ne-yavlyautsya-intellektualami.aspx Intellectuals who have called LaRouche a fascist do not deserve to be called intellectuals] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120715220632/http://terra-america.ru/intellektuali-nazivaushie-larusha-fashistom-ne-yavlyautsya-intellektualami.aspx |date=July 15, 2012 }}, Terra-America, April 19, 2012</ref>

[[George Johnson (writer)|George Johnson]], in a review of King's book in ''[[The New York Times]]'', said that King's presentation of LaRouche as a "would-be Führer" was "too neat", and that it failed to take into account that several members of LaRouche's inner circle were themselves Jewish, while acknowledging that LaRouche's "conspiracy theory is designed to appeal to anti-Semitic right-wingers as well as to Black Muslims and nuclear engineers".{{sfn|Johnson|1989}} In his 1983 book, ''Architects of Fear'', Johnson described LaRouche's dalliances with radical groups on the right as "a marriage of convenience", and less than sincere; as evidence he cited a 1975 party memo that spoke of uniting with the right simply for the purpose of overthrowing the established order: "Once we have won this battle, eliminating our right-wing opposition will be comparatively easy." At the same time, Johnson says, LaRouche also sought contact with the Soviet Union and the [[Ba'ath Party]] in Iraq; failing to recruit either the Soviets or right-wingers to his cause, LaRouche attempted to adopt a more mainstream image in the 1980s.{{sfn|Johnson|1983|pp=207–208}} [[Laird Wilcox]] and John George similarly stated that King had gone too far in trying "to paint LaRouche as a neo-Nazi" and that LaRouche's most severe critics, like King and Berlet, came from extreme leftist backgrounds themselves.{{sfn|George|Wilcox|1992|pp=[https://archive.org/details/naziscommunistsk0000geor/page/313 313], 321, 324}}

==References==
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==Sources==
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*{{cite book|last=Johnson|first=George|year=1983|chapter=The 'New Dark Ages' Conspiracy|title=Architects of Fear: Conspiracy Theories and Paranoia in American Politics|publisher=J.P Tarcher|isbn=978-0-87477-275-3|url=https://archive.org/details/architectsoffear00john}}
*{{cite news|last=Johnson|first=George|author-link=George Johnson (writer)|title=A menace or just a crank?|work=The New York Times|date=June 18, 1989|url= https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE5DF123CF93BA25755C0A96F948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=3 }}
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*{{Cite book|last1 = Kalimtgis | first1 = Konstandinos| last2 = Goldman | first2 = David | last3 = Steinberg | first3 = Jeffrey | year = 1978 | title = Dope, inc | isbn = 978-0-918388-08-7 | publisher = New Benjamin Franklin House Pub. Co. | location = New York | oclc = 4492671}} On the Protocols, see pp.&nbsp;31–33; on the Rothschilds, see the chart on pp.&nbsp;154–55, consult index for more than 20-page entries on the Rothschilds.
*{{cite book|first=Manning|last=Marable|year=1998|publisher=Columbia University Press|title=Black Leadership |isbn=978-0-231-10746-4 |url=https://archive.org/details/blackleadership00mara}}
*{{cite book|last1=Robins |first1=Robert S. |last2=Post |first2=Jerrold M. |year=1997 |title=Lyndon LaRouche: The Extremity of Reason |work=Political Paranoia: The Psychopolitics of Hatred |publisher=Yale University Press}}
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