[P2P-F] The Modern Anglo-Dutch Empire

Sun Jul 31 21:38:07 CEST 2011

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 <michel at p2pfoundation.net>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&Itemid=14.., 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 <michel at p2pfoundation.net>
> Date: Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 8:00 PM
> Subject: Re: The Modern Anglo-Dutch Empire
> To: james burke <james at p2pfoundation.net>
> Cc: p2p-foundation <p2p-foundation at lists.ourproject.org>, David de Ugarte
> <david at lasindias.coop>, George Papanikolaou <georgepapani at gmail.com>,
> David Ronfeldt <ronfeldt at mac.com>
>
>
> 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 <james at p2pfoundation.net>wrote:
>
>> http://www.oaklandasp.comcastbiz.net/
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>
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