The following is a remembrance of Lyndon LaRouche, written on Labor Day, by Paul Gallagher, EIR Editorial Board..
Today would have been the 98th birthday of Lyndon LaRouche, the economist and statesman whose work, The Power of Reason (1987, EIR), was only one of those numberless works, great projects, and bold initiatives by which he raised the idea of the power of labor to the limitless power of human reason. From his earliest major economic work, Dialectical Economics, Lyndon LaRouche demonstrated Abraham Lincoln’s conception that the productive labor force is the prior creator of capital, and of new and higher forms of productive labor, through creative invention.
But he went far beyond this. Lyndon LaRouche exceeded any physical economist at least since Gottfried Leibniz, in forecasting and describing how high the world’s poorest of labor forces could raise their physical, cultural and scientific powers, over periods of decades, through great projects of development.
