Introduction

Linden LaRouche started off on the left as a Trotskyist and over time created an organization that became increasingly recurrist, increasingly cultist and then ultimately explicitly reactionary and right wing. And I think it's an incredibly important historical lesson for the left to learn today because if you've been on the left for the last several years you've actually probably seen left wing cults emerge. It's absolutely fascinating to go back throughout history, to see left wingcults in the past and then to live through a period of time in which you can watch in real time as they emerge,. You know, spin out and dissolve in various ways. We're seeing this attempt by some revision