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Lyndon LaRouche presents the urgency of dealing with this dying system in the following manner: He suggests that "most intelligent governments know there are alternatives to what is happening." But will they act and affect change? No. "They will say it's politically impossible to bring this about. The governments will never do it. Which means the captain will never let the passengers off the Titanic." That's why he finds it imperative to intervene. "Can we do it?" he asked, exploring the chances for the success of his organization, or the response of the world. "I'm not sure," he answers. "But if we don't, kiss your grandchildren good-bye. Because if don't do something like that, then famine, epidemics, chaos, and so forth, the collapse of the nation-state system, collapse the level of population potential of the planet back to the level of the 14th century. And therefore we have to do it." He adds, "I think the only reason we will do it, is because we have to."*(The New Federalist, April 21, 1997, p.9.)
The Chinese example, demonstrating mankind's potential.
Recent history illustrates the enormous potential that can be unleashed when the feudal model of economy is replaced by what may be termed, the infinite model of economy, which reflects the principle that underlies the institution of the sovereign nation-state. The development in China, over the last two decades (especially from 1993 on), illustrate this potential.
Since 1993, when China turned away from the speculative, feudal economic model and began to implement policies of direct investment into infrastructure and industrial development, near miracles have been achieved. China has become a modern nation literally over night. Ox cart roads have given way to 8 lane highways. The Beijing airport that was, a mere 10 years ago, smaller than the airport in Aspen Colorado, is now 20 times larger and is as crowded as the busiest airport in the West. Modern suspension bridges, among the longest in the world, stretch across the ancient rivers. Across the Bohai Strait a 57 km sea-bridge/tunnel combination is planned that will be the longest such structure in the world and probably the most needed. It will shorten the coastline by 2000 km. Seven large new ports are planned to be built over the next seven years in this region alone.
By the end of 1998 a grand total of 3,600 major infrastructure projects were planned for this single region of China, including new industries, nuclear plants, railroads, and new cities. A total of 200 brand new cities, holding approximately one million people each, are slated to be built nation wide, from the ground up. They are to be built over the next 20 to 30 years in order to provide decent housing for an expanding population. In contrast to these plans, how many new cities has the West built throughout the entire century? Maybe half a dozen, if that.
Also the construction of 100 new airports, 14 large subway systems, and 100 new sea-ports are planned throughout China. They also want to double their railway network, already the longest in the world, to 90,000 km by the year 2000.
While the West is shutting itself down in its commitment to deindustrialization and related poverty, China has committed itself to gigantic infrastructure projects. These are not just planned projects but include projects already under way on a massive scale. People joke about this. The say that the new national bird of China has become the construction crane.
Twenty years ago, China was torn to the deepest levels by Mao's Cultural Revolution, which virtually destroyed the nation. Its brightest minds were murdered; its economy devastated; its population brutalized. Now, the nation is building itself a new future, a future without starvation, without homelessness, and without fear.
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