LaRouche's main thesis is that the 'Anglo-American cabal,' which involves George Bush, the English monarchy, and some other ingredients, has decided to undertake a programme of genocidal IMF/World Bank-financed de-industrialization to deplete the population of the Third World. The cabal's plan includes "narcotrafficking"; environmental policies to prevent those countries from developing economically; 'Malthusian' population policies which incorporate birth control, abortion, and allowing disease and hunger free rein; profiteering through 'neo-colonial' resource control; the "lab-created" AIDs virus; and promotion of 'antifamily' ideals such as feminism, homosexuality, Satanism, and "the sex-drugs-rock and roll counterculture." This conspiracy theory, needless to say, is a grab bag of far right and far left nut worries. LaRouche believes that only massive industrial projects - nuclear power, huge irrigation canals dug with atomic bombs (!) in the Middle East, and similar high-tech developments - can free the Third World from the sinister grasp of the oligarchs' cabal.
LaRouche has other windmills to tilt his lance at. For one thing, he wants to move toward a "Hamiltonian" economic model, which is neither laissez-faire nor communist. (Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson argued over the future economic shape of America. Jefferson saw a land of small, dispersed planters, farmers, and "Virginia gentlemen." Hamilton thought America would develop through a strong Central Bank which financed industrial development and fostered growth of urban centres, not rural farmers. Hamilton was right on one score - "Jeffersonian" democracy meant slavery for another 100 years.) In his "Science of Christian Economy," LaRouche blames a lot of modern problems on usury, the lending of money at excessive interest. LaRouche also blames much of our 'cultural' breakdown on a move away from classicism in the arts - particularly the well-honed musical scale, Schiller's great poetry, and Renaissance naturalism in painting. Ever the Neo-Platonist, LaRouche lambasts the "Aristotelian" thinking which he sees behind our legal and other institutions. LaRouche's plan to 'reclassicize' our lives includes a whole new way of envisioninghttp://www.oaklandasp.comcastbiz.net/
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