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I've said Lyndon is the best choice because he is the only one whoHeader:
foresquarely states that 9-11 was an inside-job black op and that these wars
are criminal aggression against wholly innocent nations. How can the other
candidates even qualify to the intelligent person of good will if they are
in denial (or in coverup) about THAT?
But Lyndon, I have discovered as I study his writings, is the best possible
candidate for other reasons too.
He is not charasmatic and he writes like an engineer with no spin guys or
pollsters to package him for the trained consumers, so let me pull a few
quotes from writings most people would not be willing to plod through.
These show the man that I am supporting.
First compare the following statement with Establishment corporation-driven
"deindustrialization" and "outcomes-based education" which for example uses
half of a girls high-school hours to learn hair-dressing at a real-for-sure
beauty school and boys to fix cars -- after their drug and sex awareness,
their multiculturalism and values clarification objectives are attained,
while they can't write, don't have any math or science or civics or history
or economics etc. -
"...a high ration of capital-goods to consumer-goods output is the more
healthful circumstance of an economy undergoing technological progress. A
highly skilled labor force of operatives, able to assimilate and employ
those changes in behavior flowing from scientific discovery, is the optimal
labor-force-policy, and related general educational policy. The purpose of
education for employment, as distinct from its other indispensible
functions, is, rather than preparing pupils through secondary school for
some specialized trade skill, education must bring forth in the fullest
possible degree the broadest potentialites of the child and youth, prior to
specialist education to begin after the completeion of secondary-school
education. The point is not to teach youth to behave in a fixed mode
prescribed for them by standards of normal behavior developed up tot he
present time. The point is to develop the creative-mental potentialities of
youth in the broadest possible scope, to supply them with rigorous methods
for efficiently innovating (e.g., productive) behaivor, assimilating those
innovations into the form of fruitful transformations in day-to-day behavior
(e.g., behavior in production.) .... The economy of labor, accomplished
by this means, is a reflection of the fact that the scientific discovery
generating such changes in behavior, embodies an increasing correspondence
between the behavior of mankind and the lawful ordering of our universe.
The economy of labor in the productive process must be comprehended as the
greatest of all scientific experiments ..." Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr., So, You
Wish to Learn All About Economics? A Text on Elementary Mathematical
Economics (New York: New Benjamin Franklin House, 1984)
In Lyndon LaRouche's accounting of the Nations gains and losses, he defines
as net lost waste the following:
Waste: Expenses incurred by unemployment, expense to society of criminal
activities, the expense to society incurred by activities which ought to be
classivied as immoral, if not explicity criminal, including all forms of
usury.
Has any other Democratic candidate brought to the electorate the issue of
the intentional policy of deindustrialization -- the relegation of the bulk
of the US working population to service jobs in which nothing is produced
and no one is capable of producing or initiating production? I find this an
amazing passage to have been written back in 1984 -- and note the agreement
between the late R. Buckminster Fuller and LL on how this crime came about
(see Fuller's last book, Critical Path.)
"During the second half of the 1950's, during the same general deliberation
leading to adoption of Nuclear Deterrence ..., leading circles in the
"liberal Establishments" of London and the northeastern U.S.A. decided to
push the world's economy into the direction of a "post-industrial" phase.
"Back-channel" agreements with the Soviet government ... persuaded these
"liberal Establsihments" that Nuclear Deterrence either precluded general
warfare between the superpower alliances, or that if such a war began, it
would cease at the point of completeion of the opening barrages of
"strategic" thermonuclear bombardments. Only "local wars," including
perhaps "limited nuclear wars," each conducted within the guidelines of a
flexible set of rules (Flexible Response), would be expected. Nuclear
Deterrence was viewed, thus, as putting a cap on the military requriement
for the in-depth logistical strength of a technologically progressive
economy. [ In other words, the Establishment concluded no longer needed a
very smart and adaptable general population and a pervasively dynamic and
creative industrial base in order to protect their own interests in the
future. --DE ] The "post-industrial society" policy was advertised widely
from the turn of the 1960's, as typified by the coincidence between
President Johnson's "Great Society" doctrine and the initial tearing down of
the research-and-development commitments centered then around NASA.
[Now read the following paragraph that certainly, in retrospect, vindicates
LaRouche against every critic, having written this in 1984 when all the rest
of us were voting either for Reagan or Mondale without a thought that a
bi-partisan this far-reaching and destructive of the interests of the
common man were going on behind our backs. --DE]
Since the "liberal Establishment" elements adopting this perspective were
spokesmen for circles of European and North American family interests,
virtually Italian-style fondi which control the dominant banking and
insurance complexes, the flow of credit and investment funds into, and out
of, corporations began to reflect increasingly the "post-industrial"
orientation of the mid-1960's "head of the Establishment" (according to John
Kenneth Galbraith), McGeorge Bundy (at the Ford Foundation). Zbigniew
Brzinski's "technetronic society" thesis is a reflection of this ...
social-economic policy thinking. The tendency grew, as illustrated by the
case of U.S. Steel, to use industrial corporations as money-generators for
investments in non-industrial ventures, amounting to a policy of
cannibalizing such firms being run into the ground through disinvestment in
the production process.
The pressures for such policies of industrial corporations came not only
in the form of direct pressures from Wall Street, including the corporate
raiders lurking to asset-strip any corporation unable to defend its stock
from such lurking wolves. It also came from changes in thinking from the
inside of managements. The role of the "Harvard Business School type"
within management, beginning with such types as Robert S. McNamara at Ford
and the Pentagon, is the center of this change in the philosophical outlook
of industrial managements. This is aptly reflected by comparing the
readership-sensitive Wall Street Journal's issues from the 1950s and early
1960's with the neo-liberal mixed with neo-conservative philosophical
outlook in recent editions.
Harvard Business School is merely a prototype of what now permeates
graduagte business schools world-wide. What is taught in such locations is
predominantly an ideologyg What passes for economic sophistication in such
centers is merely [merchantilist] doctrine of buying cheap and selling dear
mystified by a thick overlay of the late John von Neumann's "mathematical
economics." The magic phrase is "opportunity cost." ... VOn Neumann's
specifications for mathematical economics require the assumption both that
the economy is in a state of zero technological grown and that changes
downward in the level of technology may be ingored. ... The virtual
brainwashing of business-school graduates and other professionals in a dogma
so situated, and the concurrence of dominant forces of Wall Street, London,
Switzerland, and Venice's financial complexes, has infected much of U.S.
industrial management with a change in philosophy of management so sharp it
must be fairly described as a "cultural paradigm shift." [In other words,
they not only are selling off the "seed corn," but the bakery too -- the
very capacity to produce the economic pie -- in order to maximize stock
holder returns come what may. Exactly what has landed us where we are. And
with the the US no longer making things to sell abroad to swap for all the
foreign articles we now must buy, the corporations resort to theft of other
nation's oil reserves and imperialistic plundering. --DE]
[Lyndon LaRouche impresses me because, although a Democrat, he is not above
criticizing Democrats. The party and the power and patronage that having
one's party in power affords is not what he is after. ]
The U.S. economy entered a relatively entropic [running down, exhausting,
heading toward chaotic breakdown, no longer self-sustaining, not growing,
not developing etc. --DE] phase over the period 1966-1974. The U.S.
economy became absolutely entropic -- absolutely "negative economic growth
rates," and operating below economic "breakeven" -- within a few months
after the policies jointly adopted by the Carter-Mondale Administration and
Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volker during October 1979 went into effect.
And here are the statements that convince me that LaRouche is a man after my
own heart, a man who wants for America what I want for every person I care
about. --DE
The implicit education of populations for high rates of technological
progress requires proliferation of a kind of sense of social identity
consistent with creative-mental activity of somewhat extended concentration
span. This is necessary for the problem-solving aspects of the assimilation
and application of new discoveries, as well as their propagation. This is
fostered by placing a greater social value on the persons who succeed in
such efforts than those who avoid them. This should not be simply a matter
of cultural paradigms of "other directedness"; it sould not be a matter of
reducing a person's self-image to another's mere opinion of him. The
objective must be to foster an "inner-directed" sense of the individual who
contributes to society in this way is an important as well as useful
individual because of not only his creative powers, but his commitment to
further development and beneficial use of those powers. What is needed is
not a mirror-image of the supposed opinion of one in the minds of others
(authorities, peers, etc.), but an inner moral sense of identity.
This point is made clearer by noting highlights of the manner in which
the prevailing culture of the United States has been destroyed during the
recent two decades. SInce the middle 1960's, most emphatically, there has
been a cultural paradigm-shift in the official morality of "popular opinion"
(as certified by major news media and entertainment media), away from the
values of rationality, technological progress, and future-orientation, to
the countercultural values of a "Now" and "Me" generation. ... Rather than
attempting the necessarily long discussion of this cultural paradigm-shift,
we limit ourselves to summarizing some highlights, as will be sufficient to
make the point.
The kernel of the manipulation of p[ublic opinion and morals was the
interdependency of the "sexual liberation revolution," as typified by the
drug-lobbying pornographic Playboy since the early 1950's, and the
increasing relegation of the employment of operatives [ i.e. people who
produce things for a living-- operate on the physical environment to add to
the human standard of living --DE ] to a "lower-class" status image.
"Playboy" was the right name for the countercultural movement as a whole.
The principle was and reamins: hedonistic irrationalism, a regression to an
infantile intellectual and moral state of mind catalyzed by offering of
escapist fantasy life into the domina of sexual and related orgies. This
overlapped the suburban movement of the fifties: a value-shift away from
urban industrial life within households predominantly rooted in the
population of operatives. (pp.103-104)
[Now, continuing this discussion, see how apposite is LaRouche's analysis
of the type of the modern "conservative" --DE]
Exemplary of the value-shit is the ejaculation: "I'm a vice-president
for my company, and my plumber earns a higher hourly wage than I do!" The
'junior executive," an office boy with college degree, asked where to obtain
an application blank for the [Neo-Conservative Club], or something of that
sort, upon hearing for the tenth time or so that union members at some
factory were earning higher wages than such an important contributor to our
nation's prosperity as himself. The general observation to be made is
clear enough. Such insecure "white-collar" strata were the broad social
base for the "Playboy" revolution. There was no justification in economic
science for the kind of shift in composition of the labor force associated
with this cultural value-shift. Concomitant with that, the "skills" of the
burgeoning "white-collar class"were scarcely indispensible to the economy in
the sense skilled industrial operatives are. Many of the new
"white-collar-class" dreamed they were on the upward climb toward the lower
ranks of the rich, but most of them found the ascent like walking a
tightrope, and the fear of falling off was always lurking. Their status, as
it was and as they imagined it to be, was a precarious one. Accompanying
this was a philosophy to the effect "the secret of getting ahead in life is
cheating." Cheat any day, in one way or another, including in forms of the
"sexual revolution." ... Sensuous reality was shifted from "what you
build" to the "recreation" you can afford, and the recreation became an
increasingly seamy sort of plunge into what had once been the forbidden
delights. ... In 1969, Henry Kissinger entered symbolically and
substantively into the position of National Security Advisor, and the
"zero-growth environmentalist" movements and population reduction programs
introduced in pilot form under President Johnson were unleashed upon a young
population demoralized by the image of a society enmired in an endless and
purposeless war in Vietnam. The image of a United States with a global
purpose for existing was shattered; Friedrich Nietzsche's proposed
transformation of values made rapid and accelerating headway, and the
outcome ... of infantile, hedonistic irrationalism .. was transformation of
the young and the liberals generally into a Jacobin-like horde [ Jacobins
were the authors of "the Terror" phase of the French Revolution --DE]
delighting in nothing so much as tearing the economy down, piece by piece,
all in the name of either neo-Malthusian anti-technology causes, or delight
in the victory of irrationalist "sensibilities" of some "militant group"
over the image of authority of technological progress. ...
No longer is the human mind's creative potentiality a source of value
placed upon the individual by "public opinion." Those charactersitic
features of concentration span associated with the power to assimilate new
discoveries are being turned off by the action of an irrationalist's choice
of personal social identity. Without a reversal of this trend in public
opinon, a cultural paradigm-shift to a moral, rational sense of identity
within the setting of technological progress, the United States is soon
doomed to be virtually extinct through the moral decay within it.
p.105-106)
Let me end this selection of Lyndon LaRouche writings with this:
The function of citizenship is the most general purpose of primary and
secondary education. If members of the electorate canot think, but can
vote, what kind of elected government might we expect? Without rigorous
training in rational thinking about any kind of topic on which a citizen
might have to vote in choosing among candidates, what value does "public
opinon" have bearing upon truth or determination of either national
interests or the citizen's own immediate interests?
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you don't know sqwat about what LaRouche really stands for -- let meHeader:
correct thatSubject: Eastman's LaRouche -- not the LaRouche you hear about -- or Who got
you to accept elimination of Lyndon from the Democrat primaries process?
============
I fully expect this to convince a lot of Democrats to fight for Lyndon
LaRouche's place in the Presidential primary process of their party. I also
expect a lot of independents and "old right" Repbulicans to register as
Democrats to back taking the old party back from Globalization High Finance
Ruling Elites
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Eastman's LaRouche -- not the LaRouche you hear about from the DNC bosses
I've said Lyndon is the best choice because he is the only one who
foresquarely states that 9-11 was an inside-job black op and that these wars
are criminal aggression against wholly innocent nations. How can the other
candidates even qualify to the intelligent person of good will if they are
in denial (or in coverup) about THAT?
But Lyndon is the best possible candidate for other reasons too.
He is not charasmatic and he writes like an engineer with no spin guys or
pollsters to package him for the trained consumers, so let me pull a few
quotes from writings most people would not be willing to plod through.
These show pretty well the man I am supporting.
First compare the following position of LaRouche with the Establishment's
corporation-driven "deindustrialization" and "outcomes-based education"
agenda, the latter which, for example, uses half of a girl' s high-school
hours to learn hair-dressing at a real-for-sure beauty school and boys a
chance to fix cars for half a day -- that is r their drug and sex awareness,
their multiculturalism and values clarification objectives are attained,
while they can't write, don't have any math or science or civics or history
or economics etc. I say LaRouche is dead on target with the following
statement:
"...a high ration of capital-goods to consumer-goods output is the more
healthful circumstance of an economy undergoing technological progress. A
highly skilled labor force of operatives, able to assimilate and employ
those changes in behavior flowing from scientific discovery, is the optimal
labor-force-policy, and related general educational policy. The purpose of
education for employment, as distinct from its other indispensible
functions, is, rather than preparing pupils through secondary school for
some specialized trade skill, education must bring forth in the fullest
possible degree the broadest potentialites of the child and youth, prior to
specialist education to begin after the completeion of secondary-school
education. The point is not to teach youth to behave in a fixed mode
prescribed for them by standards of normal behavior developed up tot he
present time. The point is to develop the creative-mental potentialities of
youth in the broadest possible scope, to supply them with rigorous methods
for efficiently innovating (e.g., productive) behaivor, assimilating those
innovations into the form of fruitful transformations in day-to-day behavior
(e.g., behavior in production.) .... The economy of labor, accomplished
by this means, is a reflection of the fact that the scientific discovery
generating such changes in behavior, embodies an increasing correspondence
between the behavior of mankind and the lawful ordering of our universe.
The economy of labor in the productive process must be comprehended as the
greatest of all scientific experiments ..." Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr., So, You
Wish to Learn All About Economics? A Text on Elementary Mathematical
Economics (New York: New Benjamin Franklin House, 1984)
In Lyndon LaRouche's accounting of the Nations gains and losses, he defines
as net lost waste the following:
Waste: Expenses incurred by unemployment, expense to society of criminal
activities, the expense to society incurred by activities which ought to be
classivied as immoral, if not explicity criminal, including all forms of
usury.
Has any other Democratic candidate brought to the electorate the issue of
the intentional policy of deindustrialization -- the relegation of the bulk
of the US working population to service jobs in which nothing is produced
and no one is capable of producing or initiating production? I find this an
amazing passage to have been written back in 1984 -- and note the agreement
between the late R. Buckminster Fuller and LL on how this crime came about
(see Fuller's last book, Critical Path.)
"During the second half of the 1950's, during the same general deliberation
leading to adoption of Nuclear Deterrence ..., leading circles in the
"liberal Establishments" of London and the northeastern U.S.A. decided to
push the world's economy into the direction of a "post-industrial" phase.
"Back-channel" agreements with the Soviet government ... persuaded these
"liberal Establsihments" that Nuclear Deterrence either precluded general
warfare between the superpower alliances, or that if such a war began, it
would cease at the point of completeion of the opening barrages of
"strategic" thermonuclear bombardments. Only "local wars," including
perhaps "limited nuclear wars," each conducted within the guidelines of a
flexible set of rules (Flexible Response), would be expected. Nuclear
Deterrence was viewed, thus, as putting a cap on the military requriement
for the in-depth logistical strength of a technologically progressive
economy. [ In other words, the Establishment concluded no longer needed a
very smart and adaptable general population and a pervasively dynamic and
creative industrial base in order to protect their own interests in the
future. --DE ] The "post-industrial society" policy was advertised widely
from the turn of the 1960's, as typified by the coincidence between
President Johnson's "Great Society" doctrine and the initial tearing down of
the research-and-development commitments centered then around NASA.
[Now read the following paragraph that certainly, in retrospect, vindicates
LaRouche against every critic, having written this in 1984 when all the rest
of us were voting either for Reagan or Mondale without a thought that a
bi-partisan this far-reaching and destructive of the interests of the
common man were going on behind our backs. --DE]
Since the "liberal Establishment" elements adopting this perspective were
spokesmen for circles of European and North American family interests,
virtually Italian-style fondi which control the dominant banking and
insurance complexes, the flow of credit and investment funds into, and out
of, corporations began to reflect increasingly the "post-industrial"
orientation of the mid-1960's "head of the Establishment" (according to John
Kenneth Galbraith), McGeorge Bundy (at the Ford Foundation). Zbigniew
Brzinski's "technetronic society" thesis is a reflection of this ...
social-economic policy thinking. The tendency grew, as illustrated by the
case of U.S. Steel, to use industrial corporations as money-generators for
investments in non-industrial ventures, amounting to a policy of
cannibalizing such firms being run into the ground through disinvestment in
the production process.
The pressures for such policies of industrial corporations came not only
in the form of direct pressures from Wall Street, including the corporate
raiders lurking to asset-strip any corporation unable to defend its stock
from such lurking wolves. It also came from changes in thinking from the
inside of managements. The role of the "Harvard Business School type"
within management, beginning with such types as Robert S. McNamara at Ford
and the Pentagon, is the center of this change in the philosophical outlook
of industrial managements. This is aptly reflected by comparing the
readership-sensitive Wall Street Journal's issues from the 1950s and early
1960's with the neo-liberal mixed with neo-conservative philosophical
outlook in recent editions.
Harvard Business School is merely a prototype of what now permeates
graduagte business schools world-wide. What is taught in such locations is
predominantly an ideologyg What passes for economic sophistication in such
centers is merely [merchantilist] doctrine of buying cheap and selling dear
mystified by a thick overlay of the late John von Neumann's "mathematical
economics." The magic phrase is "opportunity cost." ... VOn Neumann's
specifications for mathematical economics require the assumption both that
the economy is in a state of zero technological grown and that changes
downward in the level of technology may be ingored. ... The virtual
brainwashing of business-school graduates and other professionals in a dogma
so situated, and the concurrence of dominant forces of Wall Street, London,
Switzerland, and Venice's financial complexes, has infected much of U.S.
industrial management with a change in philosophy of management so sharp it
must be fairly described as a "cultural paradigm shift." [In other words,
they not only are selling off the "seed corn," but the bakery too -- the
very capacity to produce the economic pie -- in order to maximize stock
holder returns come what may. Exactly what has landed us where we are. And
with the the US no longer making things to sell abroad to swap for all the
foreign articles we now must buy, the corporations resort to theft of other
nation's oil reserves and imperialistic plundering. --DE]
[Lyndon LaRouche impresses me because, although a Democrat, he is not above
criticizing Democrats. The party and the power and patronage that having
one's party in power affords is not what he is after. ]
The U.S. economy entered a relatively entropic [running down, exhausting,
heading toward chaotic breakdown, no longer self-sustaining, not growing,
not developing etc. --DE] phase over the period 1966-1974. The U.S.
economy became absolutely entropic -- absolutely "negative economic growth
rates," and operating below economic "breakeven" -- within a few months
after the policies jointly adopted by the Carter-Mondale Administration and
Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volker during October 1979 went into effect.
And here are the statements that convince me that LaRouche is a man after my
own heart, a man who wants for America what I want for every person I care
about. --DE
The implicit education of populations for high rates of technological
progress requires proliferation of a kind of sense of social identity
consistent with creative-mental activity of somewhat extended concentration
span. This is necessary for the problem-solving aspects of the assimilation
and application of new discoveries, as well as their propagation. This is
fostered by placing a greater social value on the persons who succeed in
such efforts than those who avoid them. This should not be simply a matter
of cultural paradigms of "other directedness"; it sould not be a matter of
reducing a person's self-image to another's mere opinion of him. The
objective must be to foster an "inner-directed" sense of the individual who
contributes to society in this way is an important as well as useful
individual because of not only his creative powers, but his commitment to
further development and beneficial use of those powers. What is needed is
not a mirror-image of the supposed opinion of one in the minds of others
(authorities, peers, etc.), but an inner moral sense of identity.
This point is made clearer by noting highlights of the manner in which
the prevailing culture of the United States has been destroyed during the
recent two decades. SInce the middle 1960's, most emphatically, there has
been a cultural paradigm-shift in the official morality of "popular opinion"
(as certified by major news media and entertainment media), away from the
values of rationality, technological progress, and future-orientation, to
the countercultural values of a "Now" and "Me" generation. ... Rather than
attempting the necessarily long discussion of this cultural paradigm-shift,
we limit ourselves to summarizing some highlights, as will be sufficient to
make the point.
The kernel of the manipulation of p[ublic opinion and morals was the
interdependency of the "sexual liberation revolution," as typified by the
drug-lobbying pornographic Playboy since the early 1950's, and the
increasing relegation of the employment of operatives [ i.e. people who
produce things for a living-- operate on the physical environment to add to
the human standard of living --DE ] to a "lower-class" status image.
"Playboy" was the right name for the countercultural movement as a whole.
The principle was and reamins: hedonistic irrationalism, a regression to an
infantile intellectual and moral state of mind catalyzed by offering of
escapist fantasy life into the domina of sexual and related orgies. This
overlapped the suburban movement of the fifties: a value-shift away from
urban industrial life within households predominantly rooted in the
population of operatives. (pp.103-104)
[Now, continuing this discussion, see how apposite is LaRouche's analysis
of the type of the modern "conservative" --DE]
Exemplary of the value-shit is the ejaculation: "I'm a vice-president
for my company, and my plumber earns a higher hourly wage than I do!" The
'junior executive," an office boy with college degree, asked where to obtain
an application blank for the [Neo-Conservative Club], or something of that
sort, upon hearing for the tenth time or so that union members at some
factory were earning higher wages than such an important contributor to our
nation's prosperity as himself. The general observation to be made is
clear enough. Such insecure "white-collar" strata were the broad social
base for the "Playboy" revolution. There was no justification in economic
science for the kind of shift in composition of the labor force associated
with this cultural value-shift. Concomitant with that, the "skills" of the
burgeoning "white-collar class"were scarcely indispensible to the economy in
the sense skilled industrial operatives are. Many of the new
"white-collar-class" dreamed they were on the upward climb toward the lower
ranks of the rich, but most of them found the ascent like walking a
tightrope, and the fear of falling off was always lurking. Their status, as
it was and as they imagined it to be, was a precarious one. Accompanying
this was a philosophy to the effect "the secret of getting ahead in life is
cheating." Cheat any day, in one way or another, including in forms of the
"sexual revolution." ... Sensuous reality was shifted from "what you
build" to the "recreation" you can afford, and the recreation became an
increasingly seamy sort of plunge into what had once been the forbidden
delights. ... In 1969, Henry Kissinger entered symbolically and
substantively into the position of National Security Advisor, and the
"zero-growth environmentalist" movements and population reduction programs
introduced in pilot form under President Johnson were unleashed upon a young
population demoralized by the image of a society enmired in an endless and
purposeless war in Vietnam. The image of a United States with a global
purpose for existing was shattered; Friedrich Nietzsche's proposed
transformation of values made rapid and accelerating headway, and the
outcome ... of infantile, hedonistic irrationalism .. was transformation of
the young and the liberals generally into a Jacobin-like horde [ Jacobins
were the authors of "the Terror" phase of the French Revolution --DE]
delighting in nothing so much as tearing the economy down, piece by piece,
all in the name of either neo-Malthusian anti-technology causes, or delight
in the victory of irrationalist "sensibilities" of some "militant group"
over the image of authority of technological progress. ...
No longer is the human mind's creative potentiality a source of value
placed upon the individual by "public opinion." Those charactersitic
features of concentration span associated with the power to assimilate new
discoveries are being turned off by the action of an irrationalist's choice
of personal social identity. Without a reversal of this trend in public
opinon, a cultural paradigm-shift to a moral, rational sense of identity
within the setting of technological progress, the United States is soon
doomed to be virtually extinct through the moral decay within it.
p.105-106)
Let me end this selection of Lyndon LaRouche writings with this:
The function of citizenship is the most general purpose of primary and
secondary education. If members of the electorate canot think, but can
vote, what kind of elected government might we expect? Without rigorous
training in rational thinking about any kind of topic on which a citizen
might have to vote in choosing among candidates, what value does "public
opinon" have bearing upon truth or determination of either national
interests or the citizen's own immediate interests?
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Letters:
Here is on readers comment on the LaRouche statements I sent out
yesterday. --DE
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received:
Dick,
here are some other things worth noting about larouche:
* he's the only major candidate for any party who has called directly for
mass debt repudiation with the purpose of destroying the IMF.
* he's the only one to call for a fundmental restructuring of the world
monetary system
* ditto for warning about the possibility of an intentional economic crash
brought on by the elites in the near future (he calls it an "economic 911")
* his research crew were the first to bring serious attention to the
neocon-synarchist connection
* larouche was directly involved in organized efforts by non-aligned
developing nations to counterattack against the anglo-american financial war
and anti-development policies in the 70s & 80s (e.g., helped inspire
proposals for an international development bank in the 1976 colombo
declaration). this is something larouche's critics don't want anyone to know
about.
* he's the only well-known economist i know of who makes the case for the
long-lost "american system of political economy" which had it's heyday in
the early 19th century but was later crushed out of existence by the
dialectical hammer-&-anvil of "free trade capitalism" vs. "communism", both
of which were inventions of the imperialist oligarchy as stalking-horses for
neo-feudalism.
* the legal prosecution which is the source of much of the scuttlebutt
these are just a few points... i'm not [yet] a supporter of his campaign per
against him was closely tied to kissinger and oliver north. (incidentally,
the larouche org broke a number of important early stories in the
iran-contra scandal -- another rarely-mentioned fact)
se but he does deserve serious attention for the issues he's bringing up.
it's obvious why other democratic candidates refuse to debate him or even
acknowledge him. also, his lead researcher anton chaitkin is one of the best
out there on certain topics (btw he was the first to document the smoking
gun bush-nazi link which is being discussed so much now)... i recommend his
"treason in america" as one of the best histories of the american "eastern
establishment"... it debunks not only establishment histories but also many
so-called "revisionist" historians of the left and right who are just as
misleading... even if you don't support larouche it's a mistake to ignore
him.
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