LAROUCHE PLANET | Cult / From a Political Sect to a Political Cult

LaRouche is a self-avowed "cult leader":

"Although I have profoundly respected Goethe's extraordinary skill in poetic composition, one poem of Goethe's which touched me with more than a special sense of admiring amusement was his Prometheus. Making men in my own image was the conscious articulation of my central purpose from approximately 1946.

First, one must become adequately qualified to accomplish that purpose. That task, especially as I saw the methodological hopelessness of existing institutions known to me, prescribed assimilating and developing a body of knowledge adequate to the undertaking to come. In the immediate postwar period, I set myself the goal of acquiring the necessary degree of adequacy between my thirty-third and thirty-fifth birthdays.

The result of that approach was the National Caucus of Labor Committees."

("The Power of Reason", autobiography by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., 1979, pp. 76-77)

Is the LaRouche organisation left or right?
Extreme left or extreme right?
When they were Trotskyites, the Trotskyites didn’t accept them as Trotskyites, same with communists, same with extreme right wing, conservatives (US), democrats (US) or neo-Nazis etc...

In fact it is "Neither Right nor Left" to refer to Israeli historian Zeev Sternhell, who documented and demonstrated that "fascism" has always tried to reject the debate between "left" and "right" ^(*). It does not fit within our terms of reference of a parliamentarian democratic society.

LaRouche has attempted to create an idiosyncratic fusion between "nationalism" and "socialism".

It is NOT a political democratic organization that respects individual freedom. It is a cult that uses politics to its own ends, it is a political cult which uses cult method of mind-control.

It is therefore totalitarian by definition (LaRouche would say “authoritarian”). A "cult of personality" reminiscent of the cults of personality which Stalin, Mao or Hitler once enjoyed.
The nearest representation of LaRouche's world is the world described in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four novel. Politically, it shares many (not all) features with the so-called "Third Position" of our contemporary political spectrum.

Similarly to the world of Nineteen Eighty-Four, in the LaRouche cult, politics is not just “war-like”, IT IS WAR; a never ending war between "Oceania" and "Eurasia", or between "Eastasia" and "Oceania" etc., a war against the enemies of Mankind and Civilization, i.e. the enemies of LaRouche. These enemies are “exposed” by LaRouche and his obsessive and wild “conspiracy-theories”. The world is about to be plunged at any time into the abysses of a New Dark Ages, a World War III, etc. Their clock always shows "One minute to midnight" for the last thirty-five years and LaRouche (a self-professed economist) has “predicted” a world financial crash nearly every year… for the last thirty-five years! The larouchies believe that "saving the world" is the "end-goal" of the "LaRouche organization".

It is not.

It is only a mean to manipulate people (keep them busy) and create a worshipping cult of LaRouche. In fact, the worse that could happen to them is to be elected!
Since it is a cult; a "larouchie" is not somebody to argue with, neither is LaRouche somebody to be "understood". His writings are often confusing, contradictory, obscure if not outright lies. A larouchie would say: "You don't understand him because he is a genius!"
In fact, LaRouche is somebody to be BELIEVED, not to be understood. Belief is at the center of everything once you are part of his "political movement". It is like embracing a new religion: the "larouchism". In this new religion, other religions's practices are not welcome; Jews, Catholics, etc. are not supposed to follow their religion!

Of course much of their political platform is attractive; they are antiwar, pro-third World, against drugs, in defence of science and investment in infrastructure and high technologies, in defence of humanism (for a new “Italian Renaissance”) or for classical music (Beethoven, Mozart)... But that’s how they catch people’s interest: you don't catch a fish with a bare hook.
The real face of LaRouche is somewhat different and more sinister. LaRouche's personality and behavior are comparable to a "psychopath"'s.

Notes:

(*) See "Neither Right nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France"

by Zeev Sternhell

Further reading:

• http://www.lermanet.com/cisar/

Information on Scientology

•• How to protect yourself and your loved ones from totalitarian sects

•• Scientology's Love-Hate Relationship with the "SPOTLIGHT," Willis Carto & the "Institute for Historical Review"

• NOT JUST A CULT!

at lyndonlarouche.org (D. King)

• "On the Edge: Political Cults Right and Left"

By Dennis Tourish, Tim Wohlforth (2000)