Dose anyone here know anything about Lyndon LaRouche? Politically what is he a communist, socialist, Marxist, fascist, conservative?
He seemed to have been a Marxist at one point, but appears to have abandoned those ideas and has now moved into conspiracy theories and full-blown insanity. There's some criticisms that he is an advocate for fascism, antisemitism, and Holocaust denial. Considering that Mussolini started out as a socialist before going completely to the other side, I'd say this Larouche fella is probably in the same boat.
I have no idea what the man is about. I've seen some of his supporters around campus, and when I first ran into some 3 years ago, they seemed to be into a lot of bizarre conspiracy theories involving the British Empire and like trying to instigate a war between Russia, China, USA, and India, countries that should be working together and solve the world's problems, to prevent them from working together and ensure British supremacy in world affairs, and somehow the Dalai Lama is involved as a pawn... Lately, he seemed like he has either gone to the far end of bat$hit insane or has been bought off by the Republicans, because now I just see his supporters walking around with signs opposing Obama's health care plan and with pictures of Obama with the Hitler mustache.
I'm pretty sure they're just a bunch of lunatics and should be treated as such—ignored or institutionalized.
Here's a Wikipedia article, though:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Views_of_L ... e_movement
Try to make some sense out of that if you can. I'm pretty sure they're all fragging bat$hit insane. If you ever try to talk to one of them you'll be wondering just WTF goes on in their head the whole time. Well, actually... you know what? Don't bother talking to them. They're nuts. I can't stress that enough...............
LaRouche started out as a member of the Socialist Workers Party, i.e. a Trotskyite, and devolved from there into his own special brand of conspiracy theory insanity. He's not exactly a Marxist, nor indeed a fascist, but an especially bizarre blend of the two. His organization is basically on par with the RCP "Cult of Bob", except that he's actually been able to place several of his own followers on Democratic Party tickets from time to time....
I tried to find a summary of LaRouche's views but I can't because his views are incoherent and makes little sense. I don't think his views are a product of a rational mind and he seems a bit loco..............