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The LaRouche
Organization History Project is excited to announce an exclusive 1
1/2 hour interview with historian Anton Chaitkin streaming live this
Sunday at 7:00 PM EDT. Chaitkin has just published the second volume
of his ground breaking trilogy Who We Are: America's Fight for
Universal Progress, from Franklin to Kennedy.
According to the author:
… My “scoop,” my contribution to
written history, is that I have traced out and proven two fundamental
things about the character of the people who actually built up the
United States, who made it a success.
First, demonstrated in detail that
nationalists built the USA, overcoming the fierce and mortal attack of
the imperial anti-national faction. These nationalists sought the
advancement of their own country with protective tariffs and sovereign
national banking and great national projects, thereby proving that the
policies of free trade and globalism are only a suicidal trap set by
man’s enemies.
Second, I showed in great detail that
these same nation-building American nationalists were the very ones
who worked for the advancement and progress of other
countries’ industry and national greatness. They did this by
inspiring and aiding great industrial initiatives and great transport
projects in other countries, and by sharing with these other
countries our American-bred concepts of national sovereignty and
self-government, against the imperial system, against
globalism. We became the greatest anti-imperial power, and
the great influence against war.
But at certain times, such as when the
slaveowners predominated, or when Teddy Roosevelt took power, a false
and brutal chauvinism was substituted for actual nationalism, placing
the U.S. in alliance with the British empire. But we rallied several
times, to go back somehow to Benjamin Franklin’s happy path to a
better future. And our successful nationalism was the model for
people’s revolt against British-style imperialism.
The imperial enemy saw this American
nationalism in action and was bitterly displeased. They were filled
with rage and the desire to snuff out this independent spirit that was
spreading.
That "imperial enemy," embodied today in the NATO/Atlanticist drive
for world war, can absolutely be defeated simply by restoring the
United States to its actual mission in history.
Join The LaRouche Organization history editor Christopher Sare this
Sunday evening for this exciting and necessary discussion.
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