Subject: The Method by Which We Can Change the Course of History

The following remarks were transmitted by video tape to the Schiller 
Institute/ICLC conference held on March 20, 1993.
Helga Zepp-LaRouche

March 19, 1993

Dear Participants of the Conference,

Let me assure you that my mind and my heart are with you while 
you are gathering here at this extraordinary moment of history.

I want to begin with a quote from Lyn, something he wrote in 
the article ``On the Subject of God.'' There, Lyn says, ``I 
am certain that Aeschylus's Prometheus is a true prophet; we 
shall have an end of Olympus's tyranny soon, and that by aid 
of God's own agent, the {imago viva Dei} acting within men and 
women.'' An end to the tyranny of the oligarchs who believe 
that they are the gods of Olympus--that must and shall be the 
perspective for the period ahead, by the aid of God's own agent, 
the {imago viva Dei,} acting within us.

What I want to discuss is the method by which we can change 
the course of history, a method which we have already demonstrated 
works, and which must be applied now if catastrophe is to be 
avoided.

You all know that Lyn has called his autobiography {The Power 
of Reason} and he has spoken many times about the material force 
of ideas. We are in fact right now facing an unprecedented crisis 
in human history and {only} ideas which correspond to the level 
which was called by Plato ``the hypothesis of the higher hypothesis'' 
can effect the strategic-historical situation in the necessary 
way. And for reasons which I hope I will be able to make clear, 
Lyn--the person of Lyn--and his freedom are absolutely key in 
this respect.

The Dramatic Change of the Epoch

Let's take a look at the strategic situation.

We are facing something which could become nothing less than 
the collapse of human civilization. We are undergoing a most 
dramatic change of the epoch. As of now, it is an open question 
whether we will go into a period of global chaos and a Thirty 
Years' War in which eventually all weapons systems will be used, 
or whether we will be able to establish a just, new world economic 
order based on a community of principle.

The most immediate situation we are looking at is that we are 
facing an absolutely dramatic situation and escalation in Moscow. 
Remember: It was less than two weeks ago that General Scherer 
warned in Washington that the non-action of the West in the 
Balkans in the face of the genocide committed by the Serbians 
against the Croatian and the Bosnian people would lead Moscow 
and has led Moscow to the conclusion that the West is only a 
paper tiger and therefore they can do within the Baltics and 
within the territory of the former Soviet Union as they please.

Two or three days ago, in Helsinki, before the Baltic Council, 
[Andrei] Kozyrev, the Russian foreign minister, already announced 
that if the so-called aggressive chauvinism in the Baltic states 
against the Russian minorities were to continue, then there 
would be a repetition of what had happened in former Yugoslavia 
and that that would be inevitable.

The Scherer comments were not only published in the {Washington 
Times} but also in British and German papers. And the next day 
[Charles] Krauthammer in the {Washington Post} and the {International 
Herald Tribune} refuted that, and said, in a direct response 
to Scherer, without ever mentioning him, that the idea of wrecking 
the Serbians would not impress the Russians. By doing that, 
he gave a green light to Moscow to do in the Baltics as they 
please; and Krauthammer therefore acted in the same fashion 
as, previously, Baker, Eagleburger, Carrington, and others did 
when they told Belgrade that the United States insisted on the 
territorial integrity of Yugoslavia--and that was {after} Croatia 
and Slovenia had declared independence. At that point, the Serbs 
knew they could do whatever they pleased.

If there is no change in policy, we must expect a military intervention 
in the Baltics by Russia, an invasion and occupation by Russian 
Special Forces, {Spetsnaz} forces; and were this to happen, 
I can assure you: This will be a thunderbolt. It will be a complete 
shock to the world, and it will occur in the context of a power 
shift in Moscow in these coming days and weeks.

Maybe this power change will be in the form of a presidential 
regime in which, however, Yeltsin will no longer be the decisive 
factor; maybe he will be the figurehead. But it can also not 
be excluded, that there will be a full-fledged military-industrial 
complex coup in Moscow, in the same way as the coup attempt 
in August 1991 was not exactly predictable.

It could be, that the coming Russian government will have a 
centrist orientation, in which the Civic Union and the military-industrial 
complex will be the real control, that there will be a presidential 
emergency rule, in which the real hard Afghantsis [former Soviet 
military men in Afghanistan] will move to the center of power. 
Then, there will be the great danger, that a military move will 
not only occur in the Baltics, but also against Georgia and 
Ukraine; and there could be a repetition of what happened in 
former Yugoslavia, in the entire territory of the former Soviet 
Union; and remember, {four states of these republics do have 
nuclear weapons.}

Under those circumstances, it is already very clear that the 
so-called START II Treaty is finished--this treaty which was 
called by George Bush the greatest breakthrough in the history 
of the twentieth century. (The intent was obvious: That would 
have meant that he was the greatest peacemaker and diplomat 
of the twentieth century.)

It is also questionable, under those circumstances, whether 
the summit between Clinton and Yeltsin at the beginning of April 
will still take place.

Now, we are facing paying the bill for the gigantic mistake 
made in the treatment of Russia.

After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, after the coup 
attempt in 1991, what did the West do? They applied the shock 
therapy, the IMF conditionalities, the free market policy, the 
looting. They treated Russia like a banana republic in a {colonialist} 
way. And Bush, driven by the arrogance of power of the gods 
of Olympus, said that now comes the new world order, in which 
the United States is the only superpower left.

This arrogance and this mistreatment has led to a gigantic backlash 
in Moscow and the development of a very severe anti-Western 
feeling.  If this is not stopped quickly, dramatically, soon, 
this could lead and will lead to a new East-West confrontation 
and an East-West conflict and eventually a Third World War in 
the form of a global Thirty Years' War.

For people in Europe, this is very clear, especially the older 
people, who have experienced war already. And in the United 
States, where people have not had a war on their territory for 
more than 100 years: {You better wake up quickly, that we are 
in a countdown to World War III already.}

For the last 21 months, the West {has }tolerated a war of conquest 
and unprecedented genocide by the Serbs against Croatia and 
Bosnia. This war was conducted with unimaginable bestiality; 
and a minimum of 300,000 people are dead; there are a minimum 
of 2.5 million refugees; and a minimum of 80,000 Muslim women 
have been mass-raped. One-third of Croatia is occupied and Bosnia 
is virtually totally destroyed. Not one city, not one village, 
not one house, is left intact.

Twenty-one months of passivity of the West in the face of a 
war in Europe--not somewhere in the Gulf or in the Third World, 
but in Europe--has resulted in the complete loss of legitimacy 
of power, of the governments and institutions of the West. The 
governments, the parties, and the institutions have become hollow 
structures. They have lost the mandate of heaven in the eyes 
of the people.

The Danger of Geopolitics

Why did Europe not react?  Because European policy is

dominated by geopolitics. Imagine:  Already in November 1989, 
the same month the Berlin Wall came down, the British press 
were already talking about the so-called ``Fourth Reich.'' There 
was no Fourth Reich. People in Bonn were asleep, and the people 
in East Germany were demonstrating against the communist dictatorship; 
so where was the Fourth Reich?

The myth of the Fourth Reich was only the fear of the Anglo-Americans 
of the German potential to help to develop the East economically; 
and the old geopolitical fear came up, which had already led 
to the First World War, namely, that an economically strong 
Eurasian heartland would dominate the world, and put the so-called 
Atlantic Rim countries--the United States and Great Britain--into 
relatively minor positions, and that they would lose their control 
over the world.

The only person who, outside of us, had any perspective on what 
to do with the East--the German banker and head of Deutsche 
Bank [Alfred] Herrhausen, who had a plan to develop Poland and 
to reorganize the debt--was assassinated, and as even now it 
has been reported even on German TV, Anglo-American financial 
interests are the very likely {cui bono.}

Because of the intellectual cowardice of Bonn, which feared 
to denounce the Fourth Reich myth the moment it came up, the 
fear and the cowardice of the Bonn government to investigate 
what was the real background of the assassination of Herrhausen; 
this cowardice led immediately to the Gulf war, which was the 
first geopolitical war against Europe and against Germany in 
particular, according to the old British idea of controlling 
the world through ``splendid little wars'' in the Third World, 
and by taking the momentum away from Europe and putting it back 
in the hands of the so-called coalition dominated by the United 
States.

The cowardice of Germany and the Europeans to denounce the Fourth 
Reich myth, to denounce the assassination of Herrhausen, and 
to denounce the geopolitical dimensions of the Gulf war, led 
to the war in the Balkans, which was the second geopolitical 
war against Europe.

Now, it is a question of time as to when the war in former Yugoslavia 
will become an all-Balkans war, because the Serbs will not be 
satisfied with having occupied one-third of Croatia, with having 
more or less the entirety of Bosnia. They need to have Kosovo, 
the famous Amselfeld, which they regard to be the heart of Serbian 
territory. And they already have started with the so-called 
ethnic cleansing of 2 million Albanians living in Kosovo.

If this continues, and Albania is hit by these refugees, then 
Turkey, which has a military treaty with Albania, will become 
involved. If the Serbs realize their secret plan to divide Macedonia 
with Greece, then Greece will get involved, and you will have 
two NATO states involved on two opposite sides of the war, which 
means then the southern flank of NATO is at stake and then a 
military intervention is necessary--and this may occur in a 
very short period ahead.

If this happens, the danger exists that the war will spread 
to Bulgaria, Rumania, and will eventually involve Hungary. Where 
shall this stop?

All of this could repeat itself in the former Soviet Union. 
The Baltics are already called ``the next Balkan crisis.'' Yeltsin 
has already asked the West for the right for Russia to be the 
police in the territory of the former Soviet Union. There is 
massive pressure on Ukraine and this can lead to a military 
conflict--not only over Crimea; there are 20 autonomous republics 
in Russia, which want to have independence, if necessary by 
military means.

A de facto war is already the case between Russia and Georgia, 
with a de facto full alert and mobilization of the Georgian 
army.

War Against Islam

One big factor in the coming crisis, is what will happen with 
Islam.  With the collapse of the Yalta order after 1989, the 
Soviet Union as the ``enemy image'' of the West collapsed; and 
the ruling forces of the old Yalta order needed to build up 
a new enemy image to control the world by their means. It was 
clear that the North-South conflict was supposed to replace 
the old East-West conflict and that especially Islam had to 
be built as the new enemy image.

The Islamic people had to be convinced of that; and one aspect 
of the atrocities against the Muslims in Bosnia, was exactly 
that: to convince the Muslims that they were the new enemy image 
and this was then helped by agents provocateurs sent in especially 
from Saudi Arabia, and other countries.

It is very clear, as of now, that the Anglo-Americans and NATO 
are preparing a showdown with Islam. This was the purpose of 
the so-called operation in Somalia, which had very little to 
do with humanitarian aid, but {everything} to do with positioning 
themselves for the control of the Indian Ocean and the Horn 
of Africa.

Under the Bush administration, preparations were made to strike 
against east Iran within one year.  For Russia, the big question 
is: What happens if the Islamic peoples in the southern republics 
stand up?

Tajikistan, the region of the so-called ``roof of the world,'' 
will, in all likelihood, be the trigger to enflame the entire 
area, the so-called arc reaching from the Adriatic through Iraq, 
the Caucasus, Iran, Afghanistan, the Pamirs, and the Hindu Kush, 
to the Himalayas. The Tajikistan situation, by the way, is not 
less tragic than the situation in Bosnia. There is already a 
full-fledged civil war with 100,000 people dead, and 800,000 
refugees, of which 100,000 are now hostages of another civil 
war raging in Afghanistan. And right now, a spring offensive 
against the Islamicists is in preparation in this region, just 
waiting for better weather conditions.

Tajikistan is in very close proximity to China; and there the 
conflict could spill over especially to the Muslim population 
in Sinkiang and, to a lesser extent, to Tibet. There is a major 
crisis developing between India and Pakistan over Kashmir in 
any case, but now aided by the bombing in Bombay, for which 
Pakistan officially was accused by the Indian government.

It is absolutely obvious how, under those conditions, the entire 
Eurasian continent could go up in flames in a Thirty Years' 
War, including the use of nuclear weapons, which many countries 
have.

Under conditions of such a North-South conflict developing, 
it could quickly turn into a new East-West conflict, especially 
because under those circumstances it is to be expected that 
the presently visible strategy of tension will get worse. The 
bombing of the World Trade Center, the bombings recently happening 
in Turkey, Egypt, and so forth, are all already pre-signs of 
this global irregular warfare; and all of this will get worse 
under conditions of the escalating global depression.

As long as the free market economy and the IMF policies are 
continued, that depression will become worse, and it will open 
like a spiral opening towards a bottomless pit. And if the depression 
worsens globally, you can be sure a Third World War is inevitable.

If the depression continues, a new, horrible fascism also will 
spread all over the globe, which already exists in the form 
of neo-Malthusian racism. A paradigm shift, away from the idea 
that human life is sacred, was prepared over the last 20 years 
by institutions like the Club of Rome and other think tanks 
and foundations of the Anglo-American oligarchy and their hangers-on 
to power.

Overpopulation is the byword of the new fascism.

Twenty years ago, people still knew that ``overpopulation'' 
was a Rockefeller baby. In the meantime, people have forgotten 
that. Remember the infamous study of the National Security Council 
done under Henry Kissinger, NSM-200, which basically defined 
population growth in the Third World as a threat to the national 
security interests of the United States, and which was supposed 
to allow even the use of the food weapon against the populations 
of the Third World.

You remember the French fascist Jacques Cousteau, who said that 
if a collapse in the South occurs and one billion refugees from 
the South are migrating to the North, that under those circumstances, 
the use of nuclear weapons against these refugees would be legitimate--the 
same Jacques Cousteau who suggested that in order to stabilize 
the world population you would have to kill 350 million people 
per day. That is the new fascism.

Part of that new fascism developing is also the fact, that a 
new border of wealth or supposed wealth is being built on the 
eastern side of Poland, the Czech republic, Slovakia, Hungary, 
and Austria. NATO right now is developing the Rapid Deployment 
Force against the refugees from the East.  Poland expects {35 
million refugees} to come from Russia through Poland, and they 
want to seal the border against these people.

What do you think will happen, if Yugoslavia repeats itself 
in the East?  We will not talk about 2 million refugees; we 
will talk about hundreds of millions of refugees.

The Moral Condition of Mankind

Under those circumstances, we have to be very, very concerned 
with what moral condition mankind will come out of this crisis.

If we have such a collapse of civilization, then the world will 
be more and more dominated by mafias, youth gangs, and just 
look at what is happening to Italy at this moment:  60,000--{60,000}--politicians 
and managers are being indicted or arrested right now for corruption; 
and the only positive thing that one can say about Italy is 
that our publishing of the plot of the Anglo-American financial 
warfare against Italy is now a subject of a parliamentarian 
investigation, especially looking at a meeting which took place 
last summer on the yacht {Britannica} of Queen Elizabeth at 
the port of Sicily, in which the conspiracy to privatize the 
Italian state industry was conducted. And these people are now 
being investigated for high treason; and the {EIR} material 
is being used very prominently in Italy for this.

But Italy may not exist as a nation a couple of weeks from now. 
That is the reality.

Look at Holland. Holland, which, according to Norbert Brainin, 
during the Nazi period, gave some refuge to Jews fleeing from 
the Nazi terror; Holland today has implemented euthanasia in 
a more open fashion than the Nazis ever did. They have now made 
an official law, leaving it to the doctor's decision to kill 
a patient even against his will or against the will of his family, 
for cost-efficiency reasons. This is threatening to become a 
precedent for the entire world under conditions of global depression, 
that life will mean nothing but it can be sacrificed; the old 
and the feeble will be killed.

Already now, we are witnessing the worst genocide to ever occur 
in history. What is happening against Africa and the entire 
Third World {is worse than any genocide including that under 
the Nazis.}

If the depression continues, the United States, in all probability, 
will collapse and disintegrate during the 1990s in the same 
way that the Soviet Union disintegrated during the 1980s.

What will happen under those conditions to the moral condition 
of mankind?

There is no guarantee that human civilization will survive--at 
least not in any form as we have known it, with the values of 
what we have called Western Christian civilization.

Was this global crisis inevitable?  Absolutely not.

I say here--and I want people to debate it and think about it 
and draw their conclusions from it--I say that the crisis is 
the result of the rejection of Lyn's policies, not in some general 
form, but very concretely, of three policy proposals, which 
had the potential to change the course of history.

In the last decade, there were three occasions which could have 
become the {punctum saliens} for world history. Schiller called 
the {punctum saliens} that moment in a tragedy when, after the 
drama has unfolded and the plot has been presented, there comes 
a final moment where the main actors on the stage have it in 
their power, through their action, to make sure that the drama 
does not end as a tragedy, but a better solution has been found; 
and that it depends on the moral integrity and greatness of 
the actor and the main figures, whether this {punctum saliens} 
can be met.

In 1982, Lyn proposed {Operation Juarez,} which could have been 
the beginning of a new world economic order because he proposed 
the debt reorganization of Latin America and the Third World. 
This would have even saved the U.S. banking system; as a matter 
of fact, it would have put the U.S.  banking system on a sound 
basis.

We know what happened. The U.S.  financial establishment chose 
the monetarist approach, and they went into ever-wider monetarist 
policies:  leveraged buy-out takeovers and derivative operations. 
Now you have a gigantic bubble which is threatening to lead 
to the biggest bust in the history of the financial markets.

This has resulted in what even President Mubarak, not exactly 
an anti-Anglo-American hero, has called the genocide of more 
than 500 million people throughout the 1980s due to the International 
Monetary Fund. Half a billion people being killed as a result 
of these policies--and that is probably a conservative view.

Had {Operation Juarez} been implemented, the Southern Hemisphere 
today would be prospering, and there would be growing markets 
for the industries of the North. [Jose] Lopez Portillo, the 
President of Mexico at that time, had started to implement this; 
and it was only because of a lack of solidarity by Brazil and 
Argentina and the massive pressure by the Anglo-Americans that 
that opportunity was missed.

The second major {punctum saliens} was in 1983, when Lyn had 
proposed the conception of the SDI. For Lyn it was already clear, 
at the end of the 1970s, that the Soviets were developing their 
own version of ballistic missile defense. The 1962 Sokolovsky 
Doctrine, which said that whoever controls space will control 
the world, the planet Earth, was in cohesion with the policies 
of Moscow as the Third Rome at that time, and the policy later 
developed in the Ogarkov Plan for world domination.

At the same time, in the West, you had the NATO doctrine of 
Mutual and Assured Destruction, especially when the SS-20s and 
the Pershing IIs were deployed, and the whole world moved more 
and more into a situation of launch on warning, which meant 
that there was less than ten minutes' warning time in order 
to launch nuclear war. And Lyn, in a completely ingenious design, 
proposed to replace this dangerous and immoral MAD doctrine 
with the doctrine of Mutual and Assured Survival, which was 
the idea that both superpowers should develop and deploy together 
these new technologies based on new physical principles, which 
later became the SDI.

Lyn correctly noted that the greatest impetus to world peace 
would be if one superpower alone would deploy these new technologies, 
because then the other superpower would be confronted with the 
danger that their own nuclear weapons soon would be obsolete. 
This would have meant, if it had been implemented, that for 
the first time, defense would have been less costly than the 
offensive; and therefore nuclear weapons would really have become 
obsolete.

Lyn developed the famous protocol for the superpowers, which 
was the idea that between two superpowers these technologies 
would be implemented and because of their application in civilian 
technology, they would become the science-driver for the whole 
world economy.

This, then, became the main objection from the side of the Soviets, 
namely, the idea that the West would be better able to apply 
these technologies than they.

When Reagan made the offer of the SDI in March, there was a 
gigantic backlash on all sides. Why?

Because this would have meant that the idea of the rule of the 
world in the form of the Yalta condominium, the entire idea 
of oligarchical rule and Pugwash and the disarmament process 
as a means of control, would have been ended. There would have 
been a massive technology transfer to the Third World instead; 
there would have been the idea of each country on the planet 
being nationally sovereign, and it would have meant an end to 
using the Third World for proxy wars by the superpowers--and 
especially, as Edward Teller noted at that time, the need for 
secrecy would have been ended because from whom would you want 
to hide the new technologies if countries were working together.

This incredible {punctum saliens} was missed. The Kissinger 
forces in the United States made a coup, the SDI was immediately 
watered down, and on the Soviet side, an unprecedented slander 
campaign against Lyn and the organization was started. The SDI 
and Lyn were called {casus belli.}

Instead of accepting Reagan's offer, which lasted still till 
August 1983, the Soviets went into a massive rearmament drive 
which consequently led to the collapse of the Soviet Union.  
The former Soviet foreign minister, Alexander Bessmertnykh, 
just recently, a couple of weeks ago, in a conference in the 
United States, said that the SDI was the major cause for the 
collapse of the Soviet Union; but also on the U.S.  side, the 
rejection of Lyn's policy led to the depression in which the 
United States now is.

But it is a fact that Reagan accepted the policy proposed by 
Lyn; and we succeeded--at least for a short period of time, 
in showing how the course of history could have been changed.

The SDI was defeated shortly afterwards; already in May, Andropov 
gave his famous interview to {Spiegel} magazine in which he 
proposed to divide the world and rule it under a condominium, 
to divide it into spheres of influence.

Had Moscow instead accepted the discussion and negotiated the 
application of these new technologies based on new physical 
principles, the whole world could have been changed, and history 
would not be what it is today.

Instead, [Fyodor] Burlatsky, who is of evil fame among all the 
dissidents in Russia because he was the main police dog harassing 
the dissidents, called Lyn and the SDI the {casus belli.} And 
Lyn correctly noted: What does it say about the condition of 
the world if one man is called {casus belli} between two superpowers?

It is very clear: {Lyn was the main dissident} of that Yalta 
order and hated, therefore, by both sides.

Rather than accepting the idea of the discussion, the Soviets 
went into the build-up of the Ogarkov Plan and what we had reported 
at the time in the {Global Showdown} reports, and were attacked 
for by all the media, is now even in the pages of the {Washington 
Post,} namely, that the NVA, the army of the former East Germany, 
together with the Warsaw Pact Army, the Red Army, had a complete 
attack plan to take over Western Europe, including communication, 
transport, factories--including renaming all the streets. So 
we were {completely vindicated.}

Strategic Interventions of 1988 and 1989

In 1988, Lyn made the famous speech at the Bristol Hotel predicting 
the early collapse of the Soviet economy and suggested therefore 
the early unification of Germany and to use Poland as a model 
of how to develop the countries of the East with Western technology. 
I can assure you: No politician of the West at that time saw 
German unification as an immediate possibility. Willy Brandt 
in this period spoke of the ``lie of the century.''

Exactly one year later, in November 1989, the Berlin Wall came 
down, and there is no question that Lyn is more responsible 
for this than any other individual. Once again the whole world 
was unprepared for this, and Lyn, who was already sitting in 
jail as a result of the Soviet demand before the summit between 
Reagan and Gorbachov in Reykjavik in October 1986, from his 
prison cell made the great proposal, a great vision: to use 
the Productive Triangle, Paris-Berlin-Vienna, as a border to 
develop then, via spiral arms of development, a whole infrastructure 
program for Eurasia.

Once again, this represented a {punctum saliens,} a point at 
which history could have been changed in the most dramatic way. 
What a moment; everybody spoke of the historic chance of Europe. 
East-West relations could have been put on a completely different 
basis, and the Productive Triangle could have become the locomotive 
for the world economy and could have been the program for a 
global reconstruction. We would not be in a depression today.

You should remember the tears of joy people were crying when 
the Berlin Wall came down. They were dancing on that Wall. People 
in the West, in Western Europe but around the world, were better 
human beings because of that moment for a short while. People 
in the East were full of expectations.  Anything would have 
been possible at that moment. Had Chancellor Kohl addressed 
the peoples of the East and proposed Lyn's vision, announcing 
this plan--how easy would it have been!  {Everybody} would have 
accepted it.

But once again, a great moment of history was missed. Herrhausen, 
who had made a much more modest proposal for Poland and reorganization 
of Third World debt, was assassinated. After that, no German 
politician or banker or industrialist dared to even think of 
the development of the East outside of the axioms of the Yalta 
order.

Instead of using that great opportunity, the Anglo-American 
Establishment used Russia, via Gorbachov and Yazov, to launch 
the Serbian aggression; and the result of this is chaos, anarchy, 
and the threat of World War III.

The Lessons To Be Learned

The West now realizes in a great shock that Bush was wrong; 
that the U.S.A. is {not} the only superpower left, that Russia 
is {not} defeated. They still do have ICBMs; and the old {Feindbild} 
[enemy image] of the West is coming back fast.

A big, big shock is now supposed to happen.

What lesson do we have to learn from that? Three times in one 
decade we had a {punctum saliens}; three times a golden opportunity 
was missed, each time because the axioms of thinking of the 
political elite were based on geopolitics and neo-Malthusianism.

The idea that an oligarchical elite would base their control 
over the world, on the relative backwardness of the vast majority 
of the world population--what has this produced?

In 1982, Operation Juarez could have meant the beginning of 
the development of the Southern Hemisphere.  This idea was abhorrent 
to the financial elite, who were guided by the Physiocratic 
idea that the only source of wealth is the control over natural 
resources and usury, and who think that the black, brown, and 
yellow populations of the South are a ``population bomb.'' What 
cynicism!

The rejection of that opportrunity has meant the near-depopulation 
of Africa and the danger of Africanization of Latin America.

The second {punctum saliens,} the SDI, could have meant the 
replacement of the superpower condominium and the establishment 
of an entente of sovereign nation-states collaborating with 
each other based on a community of principle. The rejection 
of this has led to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the 
depression of the West.

The third {punctum saliens,} the Productive Triangle, would 
have meant using the collapse of the Versailles-Yalta order, 
which had dominated the entire twentieth century, to overcome 
the twin brothers of evil of the twentieth century, communism 
{and} liberalism, and to put the economy into cohesion with 
Christian morality. The rejection of this has led to global 
depression and the danger of World War III.

Three times the {punctum saliens} was missed bcause the {axioms 
of thinking} were not changed.

Now we have maybe one last final chance to correct that, or 
else we are going into a catastrophe. People have not yet imagined 
what it could be.

LaRouche's Method

Why am I optimistic that we can accomplish that?

The main reason is that geopolitics and neo-Malthusianism, which 
are the essential cause for the present crisis, are the doctrines 
of the gods of Olympus and they are based on axioms which are 
from an inferior universe. This doctrine is in violation of 
the very laws of God's Creation.

Lyn was able to define or touch those {punctum saliens} points 
because his method of thinking is in a very far-reaching coherence 
with the laws of God's Creation. This method of Lyn is the reason 
why his analysis about the nature of the crisis has been vindicated 
again and again, and why he repeatedly has offered solutions 
to apparently insoluble situations.

The reason for this is, that Lyn himself is the exemplary educated 
Classical humanist, the modern Renaissance man, which he has 
defined as the standard for an adequate education for everybody.

The solutions offered by Lyn are not arbitrary, but define the 
necessary pathway if history is to succeed, because Lyn, through 
approximately 55 years of rigorous intellectual work, is fulfilling 
to a very large extent the demand by Nicolaus of Cusa, that 
in order to define the {necessary} next qualitative leap in 
knowledge, one has to know, at least, the essential areas of 
knowledge of one's time.

Lyn himself has worked to replicate, in his own mind, many of 
the great moments of concentrated valid discoveries of many 
of the great original thinkers of all of human history. Lyn 
has done what Cusa says about the true microcosm, the {imago 
viva Dei.} His proposals, which he made at these points of {punctum 
saliens}, were not just some good idea, or some intuitions, 
but they represent an intelligible form of creative thinking.

It is exactly what Plato called the method of hypothesis. To 
see one's own creative efforts in the setting of the higher 
hypothesis posed by one's experience of creative moments of 
history up to now, is to make one's own conscious efforts an 
object of conscious reflection. This {is} the hypothesis of 
the higher hypothesis; and because Lyn knows that principle 
of higher hypothesis, he knew where, how, and when to leap and 
when to make these proposals.

The essential discoveries of Lyn made between 1948 and 1952, 
are the key to comprehending the method of Lyn's thinking, which 
Lyn at that time came to by studying the qualitative developments 
within living processes and having a very clear idea of creativity 
in Classical composition in Classical music from Bach to Beethoven.

Because of that, Lyn became very angry at the statistical notion 
of negentropy as it was developed by people like Kelvin, Helmholz, 
Boltzmann, and Maxwell, but also by the information theory of 
Norbert Wiener--especially when he came across the great discovery 
of Georg Cantor and especially Cantor's late contribution and 
discovery of the transfinite {alephs.} Lyn recognized that here 
was the solution to what Bernhard Riemann in his paper on hypotheses 
had been looking for.

Lyn proved that Cantor had not simply discovered a higher class 
of numbers, with no possibility of application in the real world, 
but that the concept of transfinite {alephs} actually defined 
the necessary sequence of successive increases in potential 
population density of the human species.

By applying that theory to the economy, Lyn could demonstrate 
the correlation of the creative hypothesis of the human mind, 
and therefore an occurrence in the realm of the spiritual, and 
an increase of man's power over nature, as measureable in per 
capita and per square kilometer increases in productivity, and 
therefore efficient in the material world.

The microcosm/macrocosm correspondence was proven, and a yardstick 
to measure what ``common good'' means, was found.

With this essential discovery, Lyn did nothing less than to 
prove in scientific terms what was said in the Book of Genesis, 
in verses 26-31, that man has to subdue the Earth, multiply, 
and so forth.

Lyn proved that that which was written in the Book of Genesis, 
{is actually the law of Creation and of the physical universe}; 
and therefore, the object of our quest for scientific knowledge 
is to refine our hypothesizing the higher hypothesis towards 
desired lessening of disagreement between {our} wills and the 
manifest will of God.

What Lyn has done with that discovery, is to prove that the 
laws of Creation are intelligible.

Another, related notion which Lyn has developed, which in this 
context is of utmost importance, is that of isochronicity. Lyn 
emphasized, as Cusa did before him, that the place where the 
continuous creation of the universe takes place, is the individual 
mind and the creativity of the individual. Each true discovery, 
the generation of every true thought-object, occurs uniquely 
within the sovereign creative mental process of the individual 
person.  Nevertheless, in each valid discovery, the individual 
acts directly upon the entire corpus of human knowledge up to 
now, and upon the potential population density of the present 
and the future of the human species.

How important, how necessary, therefore, is the individual human 
mind to the human species as a whole?

This question touches upon the very foundation of our morality 
and responsibility for mankind.

Lyn refers to the example of Plato, without whom, it is more 
than doubtful, that that which we call Christian European culture, 
especially in the form it developed after the Italian Renaissance, 
could have developed.

Lyn's breakthrough of 1952, which in the meantime has effected 
many consequent breakthroughs in many fields--in economy, in 
natural science, in the understanding of Classical composition, 
in historiogrpahy, in poetry, to name only a few areas--in my 
view, will have an impact on the development of mankind of no 
less dimensions, especially when one considers the principle 
of isochronicity.

As Lyn has stressed, when we reach back into history to employ 
and modify a discovery made centuries ago, we are changing the 
past in the essential feature of all things in the past, namely, 
{their outcome for the future.  We can actually change the past, 
by redefining their importance in respect to the outcome for 
the future.} What a thought!

From that standpoint, Lyn has already re-evaluated and enriched 
the contributions of many great minds of the past: that of Plato, 
that of Augustine, of Cusa, Leibniz, of Beethoven, of Cantor, 
and many others.

When we focus on that contribution of Lyn, of discovering that 
world-line of necessary predecessors and successors in the isochronic 
domain of thought objects, then we get a glimpse of the true 
laws of the universe, which are miles and miles superior to 
those of the ruling elite.

For this reason, I do believe that Lyn, as a person and specifically 
Lyn's freedom, represent a very special {punctum saliens} in 
human history. Lyn has proven that the continued existence of 
mankind requires the participation of a sufficient, increasing 
number and eventually, one wishes, of {all} of the population's 
individuals, in the continuing process of generation, transmission, 
and efficient assimilation of the fruits of fundamental progress 
in science and Classical art.

If Lyn has proven that this is the essence of our ability as 
a human species to exist and progress, what does that then mean 
for us as we face this great crisis?

It means we have to understand and act upon the comprehension 
that the development of the individual person's divine spark 
of potential for creative reason, the potential for perfecting 
oneself as {imago viva Dei,} is the {essence} of history.

We are in a deep crisis in the world, facing a potentially unprecedented 
catastrophe, because the axioms of thinking of the ruling elites 
{are rotten.} They are oligarchical axioms, that there is an 
elite of Supermen, of {Herrenmenschen,} and that there is a 
mass of helots which can be sacrificed for the pleasure and 
the benefit of the oligarchs whenever they please.

Against that great evil, we have to develop the inner force 
in people, that allows them to develop their creativity and 
their capacity for {Capax Dei,} for participating in God, so 
that they can recognize that the dictatorship of a few could 
be imposed upon them only on the basis of their former passivity 
and sheepishness.

Friedrich Schiller asked: What greater treasure could man give 
to others, than the truth?

Who has given more to others than Lyn?

Our Task

The tasks ahead are very clear. We have to change the axioms 
of thinking which allow geopolitics and neo-Malthusianism and 
bring about the individual identity and the image of man in 
cohesion with God's Creation.

In the short term, that means that we have to make a gigantic 
effort--{a gigantic effort}--to implement the economic reforms 
that Lyn proposed in 1989 as the centerpiece for a world reconstruction 
program. The Productive Triangle and the development plan for 
the East, {must} be offered by the West, as the only way to 
stabilize the economic and political situation in Russia and 
around the world.

That means we have to undo the mistakes made in 1982, 1983, 
and 1989; and if geopolitics is abandoned, then the war in the 
Balkans can be ended and a peace plan can be realized; and then 
we can and must have a Christian-Islamic dialogue based on economic 
development instead of religious war. Because {only} if this 
dialogue is based on economic development, as Lyn has proposed, 
can it be fruitful.

For mankind and for history, not much time is left. Therefore, 
we need an absolutely massive international mobilization, and 
to use the fact that, finally, some people are waking up to 
the fact that a catastrophe is looming, and that this will happen 
if the policy towards Russia is {not} corrected. But the only 
guarantee that the prophecy of Prometheus becomes true, and 
that there {will} be an end to the tyranny of the gods of Olympus, 
is that we build an international civil rights movement around 
the world which realizes the inalienable rights of all individuals 
on the planet as {imago viva Dei}--of each human person being 
in the image of God.

We as a human species will {only} survive if we do that; but 
I am certain that we will do {exactly} that by God's own agent, 
the {imago viva Dei} acting within us.

From New Federalist v7, #13.