[Marxism] Lyndon LaRouche's program: a new New Deal for a no-future society

["Jurriaan Bendien" <andromeda246@xxxxxxxxx>]

FYI here's a few excerpts from LaRouche letter to the NDC:

(...)  "we have seen the precipitous decline, since 1977, of the physical
standard of living of the lower eighty percentiles of our family-income
brackets.  That decline typifies the predetermined outcome of the shift into
an increasing decadence in U.S. policy of practice during the recent four
decades. (...)  the trend has been that the Democratic Party's putatively
leading combination of factions, was committed to obliterating all vestiges
of those policies of President Franklin Roosevelt's leadership, which had
transformed a sick U.S. economy, into becoming virtually the only world
economic power existing at the close of the 1939-1945 war. (...) Today's
critics do not ask what the public thinks of the mass media, but speaks
fearfully of what the mass media might say against the opinion of the
citizen. Chiefly, our citizens rarely dare to object to the change. Our
political-party processes tend, thus, to become a parody of what the great
St. Augustine described as ancient imperial Rome's politics of
mass-media-orchestrated "bread and circuses." (...)

Thus, we live today under government, by a mass-media-orchestrated, mere
submissive assent of the people, not consent of the informed mind of the
citizen. Events have now reached the point, that, in one way or another,
that trend is coming to an end. Now, throughout North America and Europe,
young adults of the 18-25 age-interval now revolt against their parents'
generation, and against today's teachers and university professors: "You
have created for us a no-future society!" It is the same no-future society
already presented to senior citizens, to the burgeoning mass of homeless,
and so on.

In this state of affairs, the survival of our nation, demands a voice like
that of Presidential candidate Franklin Delano Roosevelt's cry for the cause
of "the forgotten man." (...) This means, now as then, pointing the finger
of blame to those 1964-1999 changes in policies which created the presently
skyrocketting depression throughout Europe and the Americas, especially the
policies launched, first, under President Nixon, during 1971-1972. It means
a return to the model of thinking expressed as the Franklin Roosevelt
recovery methods of 1933-1944.

(...) On this account, we must recognize that there are presently three
conflicting, historically determined currents in leading U.S. political
opinion. One is to be recognized as the tradition of our republic's
principal founder, Benjamin Franklin, a tradition consistent with the three
great, ruling principles of our Federal Constitution: sovereignty, general
welfare, and posterity. The other two are varieties of active or implicit
imperialist policies, one akin to the British "liberal imperialist"
tradition, as lately described in a New York Sunday Times feature by Michael
Ignatieff, and the other typified by the rabidly utopian imperialism of H.G.
Wells and Bertrand Russell. The latter are represented today by those who
persist in proposing military policies reminiscent of the imperial Roman
Legions conduct of genocide against the peoples on that Empire's borders,
and the universal fascist model of the Nazis' international Waffen-SS and
Samuel P. Huntington.

We must assess the presence of those factions, within our nation and foreign
affairs, in the light of the three principal, immediate challenges to the
security of our nation, and the world at large.

The first challenge, is the need to reverse those domestic and foreign
policies of the 1964-2002 interval which have led both our nation and the
world into the presently terminal economic collapse of the existing, failed
monetary-financial system. The second challenge, is the threat of a plunge
into a permanent state of spreading world war (...)The third, and most
important challenge, is to recognize, what I have defined as the existing
opportunities for realizing the goals, at last, of a durable global
community of principled economic and related cooperation among a system of
sovereign nation-states embracing, principally, Eurasia, the Americas, and
the cause of justice for sub-Sahara Africa.The... last challenge, is to be
recognized as echoing President Franklin Roosevelt's vision for a post-war
planet freed from the legacies of imperialism and colonialism. (...)

Now, as during the period of the second war against Britain, 1812-1815, the
urgent task is to rescramble the political- party system. (...)  It should
become the included leading function of the Democratic Party to work to
unite a powerful combination of political tendencies of our nation around a
fuller understanding and efficient application of those principles upon
which the existence of our republic was uniquely founded. In all, healthy
politics is mission-oriented policy-making. In brief, what must be done by,
and for today's generations, for the assured improvement of the world
delivered to the coming next two or more generations.(...)
http://larouchein2004.net/pages/writings/2003/030209openletter.htm


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