Archive/File: larouche larouche.011 Last-modified: 1993/05/06 XRef: index larouche, larouche larouche.ihr The Grand Design begins with a total rejection of "British liberal notions of democracy," notions which are "is like a farm without a farmer, in which the chickens, sheep, cows, horses and pigs form 'constituencies.'" His own humanist republic would have "nothing to do with elections, parliaments, or such differentia," but would ruthlessly suppress all "nonrepublican" (i.e. non-LaRouchian) influences. The American people wouldn't lose anything, because our democracy is merely a facade for an already existing dictatorship of the "monetarist faction" - i.e. the oligarchy. LaRouche would replace this bad dictatorship with a good one - a "class dictatorship-in-fact" of the industrial capitalists, with labor leaders like the Teamsters as junior partners to provide a "broader social base." Within this dictatorship the interests of capital and labor would be "understood to be identical," and strikes by labor unions would not be tolerated. But this dictatorship would not actually be run by the capitalists. A special elite who have mastered the "humanist" (LaRouchian) philosophy would take command. These favored few would have exclusive power to shape the laws of the new order - laws aimed at curbing the selfish tendencies of society's "less moral strata" - and they would not tolerate any "direct violation of humanist outlook and methods" even from capitalists. To make this palatable, LaRouche adopted Big Brother's "freedom is slavery" slogan, only phrased more arcanely. Freedom has nothing to do with tolerating "violations of universal law" (i.e. of LaRouche's will). Freedom is "exactly the opposite"; it is the "abhorrence of such error." In other words, freedom is the abhorrence of freedom. LaRouche's "freedom" would involve total control over the individual's innermost thoughts. He distinguishes between thoughts "which lead to increasing human perfection - which we call good," and thoughts "which abort progress or worse - which we call evil." His Republic would "mobilize the good within the individual citizen to rule over the evil within himself." The individual citizen would have little choice to do otherwise. The state "does not 'concede' freedom to the individual, but _demands_ that he or she partake of it in the general interest of the state...." Anyone who refuses to go along "has no consciously defensible premise on which to say to his fellows: 'I have a right to live as a free man.'" LaRouche would revise the criminal justice system to reflect this. No longer would a criminal be someone who commits criminal acts; it would be anyone who thinks criminal thoughts. Such thoughts would include putting one's own interests and those of one's family above the interests of the Republic. "Every citizen who holds the view, 'I can't worry about society and the world; I must attend to my family responsibilies,' is exhibiting a degree of relative infatilism tending in the direction of the criminal mind," says one LaRouchian manifesto. Indeed, such a mentality not only tends toward criminality, it _is_ criminal. LaRouche's system of government would require immediate purges of any opposition. The police would be empowered to conduct "surgically precise preventative action." The first target would the Jews and others who operate as agents of the London-based oligarchy. LaRouche describes the conspiracy as a four-tiered ziggurat of (from the top down) Jewish bankers on Wall Street, Jewish community leaders, Jews and pro-Jewish Gentiles in the government and the media, and finally the gutter networks of Communists, environmentalists, and peaceniks. This conspiracy has kept the nation subservient to London, enabling "speculative capital" to bleed dry "industrial capital" through usury. The influence of the conspirators dates back to Benedict Arnold and is so deeply rooted that only a complete purge can restore the nation's sovereignty. As a 'New Solidarity' editorial put it, "America must be cleansed for its righteous war by the immediate elimination of the Nazi Jewish Lobby... from the councils of government, industry and labor." (Note the Orwellian use of the word "Nazi.") A second editorial called for an FBI task force to "root out the cancer in the American body politic that is the so-called Zionist Lobby." The task force would include a "permanent Special Prosecutor's office." Jewish leaders would be investigated and their organizations "dismantled or registered as foreign agents." A special congressional committee would "clean out Senators and Congressmen who maintain their covert relationships with Zionist spies." Anyone who opposed this would be "branded as a traitor." The Zionist "octopus" would be "eliminated" at all costs. Such appears to be LaRouche's program for a fascist state: dictatorship by the party elite, a purge of the "Zionists," suppression of all oppositioin, brainwashing-stype pressure on those who refuse to internalize the party elite's ideology, denial of citizenship to subhumans, and revisions in the criminal code to make it all "legal." The Grand Design's next stage is the "total mobilization of the entire nation" in preparation for Total War. The Nazis used the term "total mobilization" to discuss German's war economy, but LaRouche believes they never understood the idea. They simply looted until there was nothing left to loot, then went under. _Real_ total mobilization means ever-expanding scientific discovery, technological innovation, and industrial investment. And these must expand _faster_ than the needs of the war machine. (King, 52-54) Work Cited King, Dennis. Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism. New York: Doubleday, 1989