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LaRouche Tells Germans to Prepare for the Mass Strike

"I was very happy to find that I had the opportunity to say, in the vicinity of Frankfurt, which used to be a financial center, that there is a plan for rescuing Europe, as well as the United States," Lyndon LaRouche stated at the very beginning of his speech at the June 10 EIR seminar in Frankfurt. "Because without something very important happening, Europe is in big trouble, now. We're looking at a potential collapse, a chain-reaction collapse of the European economy."

However, the situation can be turned around, and this has to do with what Rosa Luxemburg described as the "mass strike" process. For LaRouche, Rosa Luxemburg "had the only competent understanding of imperialism of anyone living at that time." She, contrary to Lenin, understood that imperialism does not come from the nation-state. "Since the period of the Peloponnesian War, up to the present time, there never has been a national imperialism in any country in Europe. Since the Greek revolt, the resistance to the Persian Empire, all imperialisms in Europe were based initially on maritime cultures, and money cultures, which were international." LaRouche insisted that imperialism is nothing but "international piracy in the form of financial operations", and failure to understand that has led to "many long wars, in different parts of the world."

Today, "we have an international monetary power, a monetarist power, which controls the world economy. In order to establish the kind of empire that we have today, it was necessary for the British, or the British-centered Empire, to break the United States." The two most crucial steps in that direction in the recent period, LaRouche explained, were the death of anti-imperialist Franklin Roosevelt, and the assassination of Kennedy. "To understand the mass strike in the United States, which is a key factor in what I'm reporting, one has to understand this kind of historical process."

Today, the American people has recognized the enemy, which is "first of all Wall Street, and the second enemy, which has been just been mobilized, is Britain, because of what British Petroleum did in the Caribbean. What the British are doing, and what the President of the United States is doing in support of them, is not only treasonous in character, but it has enraged people. So, it's not ordinary political action, of the ordinary, usual type that is determining this process. It's a much more powerful force: It's the force of culture, the history of culture, which mobilizes a people within themselves to do something they otherwise don't think they're capable of doing."

Luxemburg's description of the mass strike, LaRouche said, "comes on the basis of recognizing that it is the culture of a people, which determines the way they're organized for action, and the way they respond." Effects will suddenly emerge now, three generations later, from four generations earlier. "It comes at a time, then, when people say, in large numbers, 'We are the people. Wir sind das Volk.' It leaps across generations, the embedded culture of people."

Today, LaRouche went on, 78% of the adult population of the U.S. is committed to a return to a Glass-Steagall reform. "The adoption of a Glass-Steagall resolution now, as law of the United States, would mean that every bank in the United States would be purified.... My intention is, and I think I can speak for other people in the United States, too — some of them, at least — my intention is to do this immediately. This would mean, the immediate wiping out, of virtually every speculative bank in the world, and every account which is not a stable, commercial banking account, as defined by the former Glass-Steagall practice. That's what Roosevelt did in 1933, the original Glass-Steagall Act, which is actually also implicit in the U.S. Federal Constitution."

"The minute we go for that act, and for its immediate implementation, Europe has a problem: Because then, every bank, in every European country, has to go through the same cleaning at the laundry. Which introduces a third element, as essential: We must save institutions, including banking institutions, which are valid, that we're saving, make sure they don't fold up, too.

"Once we clean up the banking system, eliminating trillions of derivative debt, "you have to bring the nation up to a physical breakeven point, so therefore, you have to have projects. Now, the way in which, economically, you can do these projects, is you start with basic economic infrastructure."

LaRouche then mentioned the Mars colonization program, which he and associates of his are working on, which will take the most part of a century. But, "we know that the space programs, as science-driver programs, give you the highest rate of gain, in productive powers of labor, of any kind of investment. This is not only true because of the investment in production for a space program," but because every aspect of economy will benefit "from the technology you develop for the purpose of the space program.

"The only way you can get a program like this in Europe, is the same way we will have to do it in the United States: das Volk. You must bring into play, a sense of the people mobilizing for a credible goal, which binds them together, in a sense that what they're doing, is such that they need not be ashamed of what they're doing, in the eyes of their grandchildren."

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