Major Russian Publication Features LaRouche on the '68 Generation

May 26 (EIRNS) -- The prominent Moscow magazine Russky Zhurnal (Russian Journal) today published Nikita Kurkin's interview of Lyndon LaRouche on the occasion of the 40th anniversity of the May 1968 student strikes in Paris, which touched off a sequence of destabilizations of European nations, in parallel with similar events in the U.S.A. In his replies, which Russky Zhurnal includes in full, LaRouche identified the pathology of the now-ruling Baby Boomer generation, as rooted in the post-war period when FDR's commitment to freeing the world from Anglo-Dutch oligarchism was overturned by Harry S Truman and other tools of the British Empire.

Under the headline, "'68 Was a Show, Orchestated By Intelligence Services," Russky Zhurnal introduces the LaRouche's remarks with an editorial note: "Lyndon LaRouche is one of the most colorful and original public figures in America today. You will be able to see this for yourself, when you read his answers to questions from the editors of Russky Zhurnal abut the Paris events of 1968, and their sociocultural and political consequences."

Following are LaRouche's original English replies, which have now been published in this same order, in Russian translation, by Russky Zhurnal in Russian translation.

LYNDON LAROUCHE: It is virtually impossible to present a reply to your questions which would be useful, without first introducing some essential comments on the historical background for those events, for your information, to use or reference as you may choose: information essential to understand the immediate threat from Britain and its U.S. agents to both the continued existence of constitutional government in the U.S.A. and the massive global warfare intended by London at this immediate juncture, whose included leading targets are Russia, China, and India.

Until the day President Franklin Roosevelt died, U.S. policy for the post-war world was to eliminate all forms of colonialism, especially the Anglo-Dutch Liberal forms, through aid of both U.S.A. physical-economic power, and the conversion of the great economic capabilities developed for the war against Nazism, into economic power for development of the nations to emerge from their liberation from sundry forms of imperial subjugation. We knew, as Franklin Roosevelt knew precisely, that Mussolini and Hitler were creations of London, and that London was the chief enemy of the U.S.A. and civilization generally.

However, already, in the Summer of 1944, a sharp right-wing turn had erupted in the U.S.A. and Fabian Society circles in London, as typified by the Nazi SS veteran Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands and the circles represented by Britain's Prince Philip today. The Allied breakthrough at Normandy, which secured the inevitable defeat of Hitler, was the signal for the right-wing turn from the same Transatlantic financier and Fabian circles which had originally created and installed Benito Mussolini and Hitler. For example, the grandfather of the present U.S.A. President, who, as an agent of Harriman's financial house, had activated the credit to rescue Hitler to become the appointed Chancellor of Germany. The right-wing surge inside the wealthy financier circles of the U.S.A. was an echo of the same network which had supported, first, Mussolini, and then Hitler. To secure his reelection, Roosevelt was forced to adopt the right-wing Truman, a Churchill stooge, as Vice-President; Roosevelt assumed that he would live long enough to overcome the problem which a Vice-President Truman would represent.

Thus, we had the right-wing turn which erupted in the latter half of 1944 and 1945. Thus, first, whereas FDR had been anti-colonialist, Truman defended British and Dutch colonialism, although sometimes in altered forms. The plan for a "preventive nuclear attack" on the Soviet Union, which was authored openly by Bertrand Russell, and the launching of cultural warfare in such forms as existentialist conspiracies and the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), were typical.

Most notable in this conditioning of the U.S.A. and European populations of the post-1945-46 interval, was the use of the nuclear-warfare posture against the Soviet Union as the pretext for building up a vast "internal security" apparatus. This latter apparatus, among its other features, used security-clearance standards to regulate the economic lives of families of "white collar" professionals, and relevant others, beyond those limits within which stricter surveillance and regulation was imposed.

This combination of post-1943 developments and circumstances was the foundation of the shaping of the minds of the "white collar" class in the U.S.A., and in western and central Europe. This set of circumstances created the social formation known today as the "white-collar"-rooted generation of those born between 1945 and 1958, the so-called "baby boomer" generation.

I was the first to diagnose the "new violence" segment of the Baby Boomer generation as essentially "fascist" in its social inclinations. This was based on my close study of developments at Columbia University and similar locations during the late Spring and Summer of 1968. I published a report titled "The New Left, Social Control, and Fascism" in June-July 1968. I compared the anarchoid element, involved in the second Columbia University strike-action, with the way in which the German Communist Party and the Nazi Party were repeatedly exchanging large chunks of their memberships during the famous Berlin trolley-car general strike.

Russky Zhurnal: 1968 the historical event and 1968 the myth: how are the two related?

LAROUCHE: The development of the so-called "New Left" generations in the Americas and Europe, were not "spontaneous" social eruptions, but were orchestrated developments, always under the fine-tuning control of relevant security organizations. The leading political forces in both leading U.S. political parties are of the "Baby Boomer/1968er" characteristics typified by the British Fabians and the model of former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore. They are radical Malthusians, whose role has been the destruction of the economy and sanity of the population of the most politically and culturally influential stratum of the U.S.A., from the relevant section of the children of the "white collar" class born between 1945 and the depths of the U.S. deep economic recession of 1957-58. The lower eighty percentile of family income-brackets in the U.S.A. are reduced to choosing among both physical and mental items presented for consumption by the presumptive "ruling class," composed largely of hard-core "sixty-eighters" in positions of either power or great influence.

Russky Zhurnal: What is your evaluation of the political and socio-cultural consequences of the 1968 events for the West, and chiefly for the USA?

LAROUCHE: If we identify "British Empire" properly, as being the domain controlled by a network of financier elements similar to Venice's Fourteenth Century "Lombard League," the only significant political menace against civilization today is that "British Empire." This is the new form of expression of what used to be called a reign of "universal fascism," as in the case of the Nazi "Allgemeine SS."

Russky Zhurnal: How politically relevant are the 1968 events for today's agenda?

LAROUCHE: If one does not understand the nature and significance of today's "68er" phenomenon, no competent grasp of current world history is possible today.