As I recall from my college and grad school years in the 70's, left wing splinter groups, largely offshoots of the student radicalism of the period, were appearing and disappearing faster than one could keep track of them. Most of them may not have amounted to more than a dozen grad students with a mimeograph machine, but they seemed to have plenty of money to travel, and to publish obscure, mostly short-lived journals. It's a sociologically interesting phenomenon; ordinary political movements don't behave that way. The 70's radicals made today's libertarians look like consensus builders.
I've always supposed this reflex towards rabid factionalism had something to do with the Stalinist and conspiratorialist roots of so many of the red diaper babies who made up the leadership of the movement. The old lefty traditions of authoritarian control of a centralized party line dies hard. The style became internalized and still infects the left. There is still a dividing line between democratically inclined liberals, who are willing to accept a diversity of viewpoints, and leftist dogmatists who have a great deal of difficulty accepting any real political pluralism.
Anyhow ... I've always wondered where LaRouche gets his money. Does anyone have any insight into his financing?
LaRouche accused QE II. His girlfriend or wife had left him for a Brit.