Hi michel & sam, thanks for the heads up. that is one totally fucking weird story altogether. I did find the book's title rather interesting: http://www.oaklandasp.comcastbiz.net/ but now I wander how much it is actually factual and how much over slanted towards LaRouche ideology. /J On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Michel Bauwens <[email protected]>wrote:
confirmed, this is even a official larouchian pamphlet ..
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaRouche_movement for the basic info,
I encountered them in early 80s when they would still physically attack progressive gatherings ..
more opinionated than the wikipedia, is this cultsite, http://www.culthelp.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1001&Item....., it writes ..
"LaRouche is one of those political trippers that has managed to take the bend all the way around from the Far Left to the Far Right, without breaking his neck. "
a bit on their views:
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 envisioning
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> Date: Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 8:00 PM Subject: Re: The Modern Anglo-Dutch Empire To: james burke <[email protected]> Cc: p2p-foundation <[email protected]>, David de Ugarte <[email protected]>, George Papanikolaou <[email protected]>, David Ronfeldt <[email protected]>
this seems like an original book, judging from the preface alone,
I wonder if anyone is familiar with this history of the struggle against 'empire' ?
One caveat though, it has a reference to LaRouche in the preface, and it you know anything about this extreme righ-wing cult, this should let the alarm bells ringing,
I'm not at all familiar with the charge that Soros was responsible for stripping the jews in budapest of their possessions, that just doesn't ring true to me?
Michel
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 4:15 PM, james burke <[email protected]>wrote:
http://www.oaklandasp.comcastbiz.net/
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