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Ex Scientologist Message Board
Lydon LaRouche is an interesting character; he began on the far Left, creating a group called the National Caucus of Labor Committees, then he swung to the Right in 1973, forming the US Labor Party, though he would always run for president on the Democratic Party ticket. Right now LaRouchianism is centered on the LaRouche Youth Movement, aka "those annoying kids on the college quad." Their game is youth recruitment and a sort of "counter-education" which exposes them to LaRouche's galaxy of conspiracy theories; he believes the Queen of England is the world's foremost drug pusher and that the grand political battle of the ages has been between Aristotelian and Neo-Platonists, and LaRouche is a Neo-Platonist. He also believes in the Verdi pitch for orchestral music, that global warming is a hoax, and that "rouge elements" of the US military had something to do with September 11 as part of a political coup.
And what does the new RYM member do once in? Travel around and recruit new members. How many do they have? I once emailed an ex-member asking about numbers: he said 4000-5000 people are on the LaRouche mailing lists but the active members are very small, 500 to 1000 people. The point of LaRouchianism is not creating mass movements, but making small elites that can somehow inject themselves into the political system and turn it LaRouche.