Well, calling it a "cult" is not NPOV.
An NPOV to describe this would be to say "the members live collectively and are told to raise money for Lyndon LaRouche", and to say "Some exmembers accuse the organization of doing this".
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Bjorn, here are another two pages as examples: [[Schiller Institute} and [[LaRouche Youth Movement]], both part of the LaRouche movement. The first is regarded by researchers who know it as a dangerous, far-right organization, with ties to far-right movements in Germany where the Schiller Institute is based. Its founder, LaRouche's wife, has made explicit Holocaust denial statements. But there is nothing about this in the article.
After a protracted edit war, I was allowed to say that its "critics" regard it as a cult, and insert a paragraph on [[Jeremiah Duggan]], a young man who died after attending one of their "cadre schools." The institute has nothing to do with Friedrich Schiller, the founder is not the world's leading expert on Schiller, as the article says (or any kind of expert). They are a dodgy political organization, not a musical one, yet look how much play the music gets.
The [[LaRouche Youth Movement]], started after LaRouche got out of jail, now has young members all over the world thanks to the Internet. It is unquestionably a cult, with members encouraged to live collectively, spend all their time raising money for the movement, and receiving almost none of it for their upkeep. Ex-members have given interviews about how they were forced to undergo "ego-stripping" as part of their indoctrination. Again, there is nothing about this in the article. I was only allowed my one paragraph about the death of Jeremiah Duggan.
Finally, look at [[Template:LaRouche Talk]]. These are the Talk archives the LaRouche editors have caused in just a few months, as various editors try to get something close to the truth into these articles, but instead get worn down by the endless talk, the calls for mediation, the calls for arbitration, and the insults. So they give up, as I am about to do.
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