Allegations of fascistic tendencies

LaRouche publications strongly denounce fascism and warn that it is an ever-present danger. LaRouche says that the model he advocates is that of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He has stated that descriptions of him as a neo-fascist or anti-Semite “originate with the drug lobby or the Soviet operation — which is sometimes the same thing.”[149] However, it has been repeatedly alleged that LaRouche and his movement have fascist aspects, starting as early as 1974.[150] In 1976 Julian Bond called LaRouche’s U.S. Labor Party “a group of leftwing fascists”.[151] By the mid-1980s LaRouche’s following was called a “fascistic cult”.[152] Notable individuals that have described LaRouche or his movement as having fascist or neo-fascist aspects include Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Jesse Jackson, Clara Fraser, Stephen J. Solarz, Bob Hattoy, Lenora B. Fulani, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Malik Shabazz, and Manning Marable. Dennis King, Chip Berlet, Russ Bellant, and Tim Wohlforth allege that LaRouche covertly supports fascistic policies. According to Wohlforth and Dennis Tourish:

The parallel between LaRouche’s thinking and that of the classical fascist model is striking. LaRouche, like Mussolini and Hitler before him, borrowed from Marx yet changed his theories fundamentally. Most important, Marx’s internationalist outlook was abandoned in favor of a narrow nation-state perspective. Marx’s goal of abolishing capitalism was replaced by the model of a totalitarian state that directs an economy where ownership of the means of production is still largely in public hands. The corporations and their owners remain in place but have to take their orders from LaRouche. Hitler called the schema “national socialism”. LaRouche hopes the term “the American System” will be more acceptable.[153]

LaRouche has advanced, according to Dennis King and others, ideas which appear to be modeled on fascist and even Nazi racialist concepts.[52][154] In an examination of LaRouche’s writings on political theory, King argues that LaRouche was really advocating a fascist-style state in which all political dissent would be crushed.[155] King suggests that LaRouche’s relationships with German rocket scientists may indicate some form of pro-Nazi sympathies on the part of LaRouche.[70]