From Volume 2, Issue Number 15 of Electronic Intelligence Weekly, Published April 14, 2003

This Week You Need To Know

The 'End of History' Doctrine and Fascism

2004 Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche spoke at an event held in Rome April 8 to present the latest book of Italian economist Nino Galloni. We reproduce LaRouche's opening remarks here.

Well, I will say what I've said a number of other times, today and before: The world is faced with two leading problems, which are distinct, but interactive. On one side, we have the final collapse of the present international financial-monetary system. It's over. At the same time, we have a literally fascist, small group in the United States, which is in the process of launching world war. For the economic-financial crisis, there are remedies. The fascist coup attempt, typified by the ongoing war in the Middle East, is an attempt to prevent solutions for the financial-economic crisis. Fascist regimes can come into being, only under certain conditions of crisis: If the crisis is solved, the fascist regime can not come into existence. So, in a crisis, there is always a threat that a fascist or similar regime will try to take power, to prevent a solution to the crisis. That happened in Germany in 1933; it's happening now.

What we have is, in the United States, we have a group of lackeys; they are not financial interests, they are not—in and of themselves, they are simply lackeys. They are organized around an academic group. The leader of the group was deceased in 1973: His name was Leo Strauss. He is best known as a professor at the University of Chicago, in the United States. You have three generations of his movement, in the United States, today. But, it is specifically fascist; it's very close to the Nazi ideology. It came from Germany, out of Marburg University, today in Hessen in Germany. It built up in the 1940s. The figure involved is Leo Strauss, who is a protégé of the legal authority who designed the coup d'état that put Hitler in power: Carl Schmitt. The fellow was educated by another Nazi, Martin Heidegger.

In the United States, he became the center of this group, which now has three generations, and the leaders—the circle around Vice President Cheney, and Rumsfeld, are all representatives of this group of Nazis. The base of the group is the same part of the U.S. establishment, which at the end of World War II represented what we call "Utopian air-power dreams of world empire." Now, this organization was originally known as "RAND," for "research and development." It was tied to the plans for the development of the Air Force, as an independent arm of warfare. Its particular orientation was the use of nuclear weapons, as instruments of world domination. It later became known as the "RAND organization." It was a key part of the organization of the Air Force, as a separate arm of the military. They were known generically as the "Utopians," organized around the ideas of H.G. Wells and Bertrand Russell. They were opposed to what was called the "Classical" military group, which was typified then by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, or, in a certain degree, by Gen. Eisenhower. And, this group around Leo Strauss dovetailed into this, as an intellectual group, which is, today, the controlling intellectual force inside the attempted fascist coup.

Now, the implementation of this group—well, let me take first, the character of the group. The group believes in the theory of the "end of history," as first posed by Hegel, and then modified by Friedrich Nietzsche. Some of you may be familiar with this theory. The theory is called "the end of history" doctrine. The point was that, at a certain point, history would come to an end, and a permanent form of world society would come up, and there would be no more changes in society. This was the idea of the State of Hegel, in his theory of History and his theory of the State. In Nietzsche, it took a special form—the same thing as Hegel, but a special form—in which he talked about the so-called "Superman" theory: That a certain kind of individual, in a time of crisis, would be willing to commit acts so horrible, that society would submit to that individual, because they were terrified of him. This was the doctrine of the Nazi regime, the Hitler regime.

These people have the same doctrine. They've generated three academic generations. One of the significant ones, is a fellow called Wohlstetter, who was an ex-Trotskyist, who was picked up by the RAND Corp. and trained by Leo Strauss at Chicago. This Wohlstetter was the educator and recruiter of the Wolfowitz who is the present Deputy Secretary of Defense. The Defense Department, especially the military, other institutions, and the office of the Vice President of the United States, are polluted with these agents. In 1990, this group said the Soviet Union had to collapse, and therefore, the United States would be the only world power. Then they said, "This is the end of history! There will be one world empire, and we will control it from the inside."

Under the first Bush Administration, this idea was rejected. But, the person who advocated inside the Bush Administration, then, was then-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney. As a result of economic problems, the Bush government was not re-elected, and we had two Clinton Administrations.

So then, what happened after the installation of young Bush—who, I must say, is a mental defective, with severe neurological problems from drug addiction; who is a punk—Cheney organized what became Sept. 11, 2001, the bombing. This is a modern equivalent of the Hitler Reichstag Fire. And, they moved for emergency laws, immediately, to establish, step by step, a dictatorship in the United States, and to move toward world war.

Some of us in the United States organized against this. We succeeded in delaying this, for over a year. Now, the war has begun, and it will not stop, until it is stopped by intervention. There is no "Iraq war": There is a continual war. The purpose of the war, is to establish world, fascist tyranny; largely by intimidation. They don't have the ability to win world war.

The U.S. Federal government deficit today, is running, for this year, $1 trillion. In addition, to run the U.S. military without a war, costs $1 trillion a year. To run a continuation of the war, now ongoing in the Middle East, will cost about $1 trillion a year more. The U.S. economy is collapsing. The U.S. economy is predominantly a parasitical economy, which lives on the rest of the world. It controls the world monetary system; it controls credit; it controls prices; everybody produces for the United States cheap, and most of the time it's not paid. It's a deficit.

So, the point—what you have, in a sense, is already a kind of world imperium of this system. Other parts of the world are afraid. Their idea of self-defense is, crawl under the bed—which is not exactly a good defense.

But, on the other side, if we don't do something, the enemy will succeed—just like Hitler succeeded. Hitler did not have the power to take power: It was arranged for him. The German military didn't fight; the left didn't fight; they sat, and waited for Hitler to fail. In a short time, the world was headed toward war. A similar situation today.

Now, the last part of my report, on this presentation: We have a solution. Europe is bankrupt. That is, the total amount of income for Western Europe, for example, is not sufficient to maintain the existing level of functions of government and the population. Typical is Germany. Without Germany, there is no Western Europe. It is the linchpin of the economy of Western Europe. Now, Germany has over 4 million unemployed, officially. With 4 million unemployed at present, Germany can not maintain its government and its essential functions; with a reduction of the unemployment by 2 million or more, it could function.

The solution lies in Eurasia. Long-term agreements between Western Europe and Asia, through Russia, would mean that there could be a long-term recovery and growth, in Eurasia as a whole. The present financial system, the present monetary system can not be saved; it's hopeless. No reform of the existing system internally is possible. However, governments can put the present system into bankruptcy reorganization, and create a new system, based largely on long-term cooperation, initially, within Eurasia.

This would mean a new monetary system, created by joint action of governments, with an orientation to long-term trade, 25 to 50 years ahead; fixed-rate monetary system; regulated, as in the post-war period between Europe and the United States. Credit created by joint treaty agreements among governments—chiefly credit for long-term infrastructure projects, which is the amount of credit needed to have the growth of employment and production.

The crisis will tend to bring governments to the recognition that they are already bankrupt. Then the governments must put the central banking systems into bankruptcy reorganization: Reorganize the system, as in bankruptcy. The government must create a system of generated credit for large-scale projects, as well as keeping essential monetary and financial functions functioning, through existing, useful banks, to maintain the stability of society; savings of households, small businesses, pensions, and so forth. And, additional credit for promotion of growth in the economy, internally. And, large-scale credit for international trade and projects.

If we do that, then, there is no more a real political crisis, and the fascists have nowhere to go. If we don't do that, the fascists will take over. So, we have a choice. We have a choice of either doing what we must do; or, hoping there are people on this planet, 200 years from now.

I think the choice is clear! And, I'm an optimist.