The World Must Listen to the Wise Words of Lyndon Larouche by Mike Billington and Stanley Ezrol
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Click here for Full Issue of EIR Volume 48, Number 33, August 20, 2021 LAROUCHE LEGACY FOUNDATION SEMINAR The World Must Listen to the Wise Words of Lyndon LaRouche by Mike Billington and Stanley Ezrol Aug. 14—Can the human race survive the crisis now Lyndon LaRouche became quite famous, but also threatening mankind itself? Will we as a race continue became the target of what former Attorney General the descent into global nuclear war, an out-of-control Ramsey Clark described as— pandemic, a hyperinflationary destruction of the means of survival, a cultural collapse into a new Dark Age? Or ... a complex and pervasive utilization of law en- can this existential crisis serve as a spark of human cre- forcement, prosecution, media, and non-govern- ativity in enough citizens of the world, to both end the mental organizations focused on destroying an insanity which brought us to this point, and launch a enemy…. The purpose can only be seen as de- new paradigm which unites the nations of the world in stroying—more than a political movement, achieving the common aims of man- more than a political figure—it kind—peace through development? EDITORIAL is those two; but [the LaRouche The answer lies not only in what movement] is a fertile engine of people think, but how they think. ideas, a common purpose of Can we spark creativity in a population which has been thinking and studying and analyzing to solve degraded through scientific frauds, drugs, pornography, problems, regardless of the impact on the status perpetual warfare and economic decay? quo, or on vested interests. It was a deliberate This was the theme of the seminar today, the first to purpose to destroy that at any cost. be sponsored by the LaRouche Legacy Foundation. Helga Zepp-LaRouche was joined by leaders from On this day in 1971, President Richard Nixon around the world—political leaders, economists, musi- scrapped the Bretton Woods system, which had sus- cians, scientists, and youth, from the United States, tained world development in the post-World War II era, Russia, China, Slovakia, Germany, France, Austria, Ar- by decoupling the U.S. dollar from its peg to gold, al- gentina, Philippines, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, lowing all the world’s currencies to float, to become the Peru, Colombia and Ukraine, for a dialogue on “La- subject of speculation, and for the British system of Rouche’s Discovery” and on “Earth’s Next Fifty Years,” “free markets” and deregulation to replace the Hamilto- under the theme: “On the 50th Anniversary of La- nian American System, which is based on the concept Rouche’s Stunning Forecast of August 15, 1971, So, of directed credit to enhance the general welfare and lift Are You Finally Willing To Learn Economics?” the productivity of labor. The LaRouche Legacy Foundation is in the process of publishing LaRouche’s Collected Works, of which Panel 1—‘LaRouche’s Discovery’ Volume 1 is now available for purchase here. EIR Economics Editor Paul Gallagher explained to the thousands of participants in the conference around August 15, 1971 the world (with simultaneous translation from English It was fifty years ago, on August 15, 1971, that into Spanish, French, German, and Russian), that the August 20, 2021 EIR So, Are You Finally Willing To Learn Economics? 3 © 2021 EIR News Service Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. Bretton Woods which was adopted after Franklin Roo- gence as a replacement for the mind. This false concept sevelt’s death was not the system intended by FDR. of the nature of man, Zepp-LaRouche said, has grown Rather, Roosevelt had insisted that after the war, the today into the insanity of the “models” which drive the former European colonies must be granted full inde- climate hoax, financial speculation, and the oligarchi- pendence, and that American System production of the cal society. She concluded by calling for the “replace- capital goods needed to industrialize the entire world ment of the quackery of information theory with the would drive U.S. productivity, while also ending the ideas of LaRouche in all universities.” colonial era for good. The leading Chinese economist Ding Yifan, who But President Harry Truman, whom LaRouche de- has written about LaRouche’s ideas in several widely- nounced as a “little man” serving Wall Street, helped read books in Chinese, noted that LaRouche focused the Europeans to restore their colonies, while the U.S. on two crimes which resulted from the ending of Bret- was turned inward. The subsequent focus on internal ton Woods: the abuse of currencies through the float- consumerism through debt, rather than capital exports, ing exchange rate system, allowing speculators to LaRouche forecast—uniquely among all economists— attack national currencies; and the deregulation of the would cause recessions and the collapse of Bretton financial system, which allowed the speculators to Woods. take over. This was but the first of LaRouche’s forecasts, all He noted two events in Chinese history, once of which were proven to be fully prescient. A video of during the Han Dynasty 2,000 years ago, and then in LaRouche speaking in 2001 described his many fore- the Mongol era in the 14th century, when similar dis- casts, emphasizing that he “was standing alone” regard for the difference between money and the real among economists who were trapped in British mon- economy led to the collapse of the dynasties. Today’s etarist ideology, thinking of money, not the physical Quantitative Easing (QE) and other hyperinflationary transformation of nature, nor the well-being of the money printing, he said, is creating a cancer in the human race. economy—a demonstration of LaRouche’s warning Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s keynote speech provided a about entropy resulting from the failure to develop the powerful insight into her late husband Lyndon La- real economy. Rouche’s capacity to inspire people from all different Józef Mikloško, the former Vice Prime Minister of layers of society, “from heads of state to Peruvian fish- post-Communist Czechoslovakia and former Slova- ermen and Italian shoemakers,” to grasp a different way kian Ambassador to Italy, described his friend La- of thinking—that one cannot separate politics, science, Rouche as the most educated man he’d ever known, and and culture, and that all aspects of life fall under the noted that 80 pages of his own book is about LaRouche centrality of creativity as the difference between man and his organization. He described his trip to visit La- and beast, driving the science of physical economy as Rouche in prison, where his optimism and agapē were the true science of human progress. She later noted that undeterred. He also reviewed the injustice of La- anyone who met LaRouche would experience an awak- Rouche’s incarceration, and the worldwide mobiliza- ening of their own powers of reason, through La- tion of citizens who united to protest that injustice. He Rouche’s creative mind engaging theirs. described LaRouche as the “Sakharov of America,” Zepp-LaRouche traced her husband’s debt to Plato, calling for a new revolution of Christian agapē. His Kepler, Leibniz and other giants of history, in making recommendation that a “short book” be produced in all his own discoveries. She reviewed the new means for languages on LaRouche’s ideas, was embraced by measuring progress which he had created—“relative Helga Zepp-LaRouche and moderator Dennis Small of potential population-density,” and “energy-flux den- the LaRouche Legacy Foundation, while observing that sity”—and the interconnection between these crucial capturing LaRouche’s ideas in a “short” book would be concepts. quite difficult indeed. She explored Lyn’s initial decision in the 1950s to Dr. Natalia Vitrenko, Chairwoman of the Progres- combat the statistical method of “systems analysis” of sive Socialist Party of Ukraine and a former Parliamen- Norbert Wiener and John von Neumann, which treated tarian and presidential candidate, gave an impassioned the mind as a computer, promoting artificial intelli- presentation, titled “Saving Mankind Is a Mission-Pos- 4 So, Are You Finally Willing To Learn Economics? EIR August 20, 2021 sible,” on her cooperation with Lyndon and Helga La- Shamayeva described the continuing effort in Rouche. Russia to bring about a synthesis of the ideas of She pointed to the Biden-Putin Summit as correctly Kuznetsov and LaRouche, emphasizing that economics indicating the dangerous strategic crisis, but warned cannot be separated from the laws of nature. She called that it did not address the fundamental causes of that for more of LaRouche’s works to be translated into crisis, in the systemic destruction of the world eco- Russian (there are already a large number of La- nomic and financial system. She reviewed the dire state Rouche’s major writings available in Russian). She of the world economy, and the necessary solutions commented later: “I would like to say that the ideas of posed by LaRouche. She called the state of the Western Lyndon LaRouche can be called ‘cosmospheric,’ in the banking system a “speculative giant squid,” sucking the spirit of Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky, who—I would wealth out of the world. She also reviewed the destruc- like to remind you—wrote in 1941, tion of Ukraine following the 2014 coup, driving the country from being one of the top ten economies in the What we are experiencing is not a crisis that dis- world to now the poorest in Europe, with 10 million tresses the faint-hearted, but an extraordinarily going hungry, and a population decline by over 20% great turning point in human thought. And, being since 1990. She closed: “Will we be a cemetery with at this turning point, we should be happy, that we windmills in place of crosses?” are able to develop science.