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I don’t even know who LaRouche is lmao. Apparently some fash or fash adjacent person

Pstsocs are delusional

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Oh boy, you should go down that rabbit hole. LaRouche is a bizarre and fascinating figure

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I skimmed his wiki page and he seems like evil/opposite Bernie Sanders lmao.

You’ve got entryism into the democratic party, anti-semitism, extremely poor attempts at reaching out to POC that seem like outright fascism, conspiracy theories, etc.

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IIRC, The Dollop did an episode on him a while back, if you want a deep dive

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I 100% agree with PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS. It’s a hell of a rabbit hole. Have a look at the table of contents of his Wiki page. An example is 2.4.9.

Lyndon LaRouche

1 Early life

1.1 University studies, Marxism, marriage

 

2 Career

2.1 1960s

2.1.1 Teaching and the National Caucus of Labor Committees

2.2 1970s

2.2.1 1971: Intelligence network

2.2.2 1973: Political shift; “Operation Mop-Up”

2.2.3 1973: U.S. Labor Party

2.2.4 1973: “Ego-stripping” and “brainwashing” allegations

2.3 1974: Contacts with far right groups, intelligence gathering

2.3.1 1975–1976: presidential campaign

2.3.2 1977: Second marriage

2.4 1980s

2.4.1 National Democratic Policy Committee, “October Surprise” theory

2.4.2 1983: Move from New York to Loudoun County

2.4.3 1984: Schiller Institute, television spots, contact with Reagan administration

2.4.4 Strategic Defense Initiative

2.4.5 1984: NBC lawsuit

2.4.6 1985–1986: PANIC, LaRouche’s AIDS initiative

2.4.7 1986: Electoral success in Illinois; press conference allegations

2.4.8 1986–1988: Raids and criminal convictions

2.4.9 1989: Musical interests and Verdi tuning initiative

2.5 1990s

2.5.1 Imprisonment, release on parole, attempts at exoneration, visits to Russia

2.6 2000s

2.6.1 2000–2003: Worldwide LaRouche Youth Movement, September 11 Attacks, presidential run

2.6.2 2003–2012: Overseas press coverage, financial crisis

2.6.3 2009: U.S. health care reform

 

3 Ideology and beliefs

 

4 Controversy

4.1 Designation as a conspiracy theorist

4.2 Allegations of antisemitism

4.3 Allegations of racism

4.4 Disputed record as economist and forecaster

 

5 Movement

5.1 Characterization as a cult

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Was this guy a magazine publisher as well? Seems to ring some bells

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He was all sorts of things. Dude ran a cult that still gets politicians elected today.

He also claims to be a Marxist, but his whole ideology is based on anti-materialism and hatred of dialectics

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