From Volume 2, Issue Number 36 of Electronic Intelligence Weekly, Published Sept. 9, 2003
This Week in History:

September 8-14, 1922

We go this week to Sept. 8, 1922, the date of birth of EIR's founder and America's leading statesman, Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Lyndon LaRouche's role in scientific discoveries and statecraft over the past 81 years, make it appropriate for us to focus on his life in our column this week.

LaRouche was born in Rochester, New Hampshire, and spent much time in his teen years studying epistemology and philosophy, during which time he adopted a Leibnizian outlook in science. He served in the U.S. Army between 1944 and 1946 in the China-India-Burma theatre, during which experience he developed a commitment to the urgency of affording what have sometimes been termed "Third World" nations their full rights to perfect national sovereignty, and access to the improvement of their educational system and economies through employment of the most advanced scientific and technological progress.

When he returned to the United States, he delved into studies of Bernhard Riemann, Georg Cantor, and Gottfried Leibniz, with a passion to disprove the cybernetics theories which were then becoming popular. His discoveries of physical principle in the period of 1948-52, led to his introducing axiomatically non-linear notions of individual human cognition, explicitly, to the field of economics. His own work located the determining, non-linear function in the increase of society's potential relative population density, in the relations exemplified by the role of the machine-tool principle in the productive processes.

Concomitant with this breakthrough, was LaRouche's development of abilities as a long-term economic forecaster, and it is these forecasts which have, to a great extent, brought him international political prominence, and the ability to shape economic policy proposals for nations caught in the current bankrupt world economic systems.

In the late 1960s, LaRouche began to establish his own political association, as the result of his interventions, through economics classes, on university campuses. With the dramatic vindication of his first long-range economic forecast, with the developments of Aug. 15, 1971, LaRouche's political association grew, and he himself became an increasingly prominent and controversial political figure, not only in the U.S., but internationally.

From 1971 on, LaRouche's political influence was such that it is impossible to honestly account for the flow of historical events, without taking him and his political movement into account. Leading elements of this influence include:

*His campaign for "strategic defense" against nuclear weapons, as part of a science-driver program for "new physical principles." This thrust was picked up by President Ronald Reagan in the form of the Strategic Defense Initiative—which, although that program came to be subverted by Kissingerians and neo-cons in the Reagan Administration, played a world historical role in relation to the demise of the Soviet Union.

*His campaign for a "new just world economic order," which has been picked up in many forms around the world, has influenced the outcome of such events as the 1976 Colombo Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement, the 1982 Latin American debt crisis, and the current worldwide moves toward a New Bretton Woods monetary system, and the associated worldwide economic reconstruction program, called the "Eurasian Land-Bridge."

*The campaign which LaRouche inspired, to "save the Presidency" in 1998, from the unconstitutional effort to impeach President Clinton. LaRouche provided the impetus for a nationwide movement which would expose the neo-con cabal behind the impeachment drive.

*His campaign for reviving Classical culture, both in terms of a negative war on drugs (stressing the need to close down the financial underpinnings of that trade), and in terms of promoting Classical music, drama, and science—the first being best identified with LaRouche's drive to lower the concert pitch to C=256.

*And finally, LaRouche's campaigns for the Presidency, which have occurred every four years since 1976, with all but the first being Democratic Party campaigns.

LaRouche's success on the SDI, on the world debt crisis, and in electoral politics, led his high-level political enemies, who had been watching him (or worse) since the late 1960s, to target him for elimination from the political scene, either by legal assault or assassination. Convicted and jailed in 1988-89, LaRouche came out of prison in 1994 as a statesman, with renewed credibility internationally, and within civil rights layers, and others, in the United States.

That credibility has dramatically increased over the past nine years, and LaRouche has been an increasingly prominent interlocutor, on economic policy, in Russia, Italy, China, and elsewhere. In the U.S., LaRouche—and his now-burgeoning LaRouche Youth Movement—has come to the fore, again, as a spokesman for reviving the approach to economic policy represented by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. LaRouche is acting now to pull together the forces to kick out Vice President Dick Cheney, guide the Bush Administration on a safe, non-war path for the rest of its term, and become President in January 2005.

While LaRouche aims to leave his major legacy as President of the United States, he has written at least a dozen books, and thousands of pamphlets, many of them translated into a large number of languages, which have had a major influence, already, in the thinking of leading citizens throughout the world. Indeed, to learn what LaRouche has to say, is one major reason to read this online magazine. For more information, see www.larouchein2004.com, or www.larouchepub.com.

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