Sergei Glazyev, a leading Russian economist who served as an advisor to President Vladimir Putin on economic development from 2012-19 and is now a Commissioner in the Eurasian Economic Union, issued a powerful eulogy on the life and work of Lyndon LaRouche, issued to his widow, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, on the 100th anniversary of his birth on September 8, 1922. The video, with English subtitles, is posted on the website of the German Schiller Institute—https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nkLsgz6fU0 .
Glazyev describes LaRouche as a “brilliant thinker and, I wouldn’t hesitate to say, a prophet of our time.” He notes that, although he was persecuted and demonized within his own country, “In practically all the major countries in the world that today are developing successfully – above all India and China – there are partisans of LaRouche. They have used his thoughts and ideas, for creating their economic miracles.”
Unfortunately, Glazyev notes, “LaRouche did not live to see the day when his warnings about the crash of the world financial system came to pass…. The world is now plunging into chaos, in precise accordance with the scenario, the negative scenario, that Lyndon LaRouche spoke about in forecasts he made 30 or 40 years ago. Back then, he proposed that, instead of pumping up financial bubbles, the world’s reserve currency emitter-countries, together with their partners and other countries, should invest in building global infrastructure.” As they failed to implement that approach, Glazyev says, the bubbles are now too big to transfer into real production, leaving only two alternatives: bankruptcy reorganization in cooperation other nations, or repudiate the debt.
LaRouche, he says, proposed a different model, “based on the principles of physical economy; in particular, the famous project, which he and his wife, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, put forward for international discussion – the so-called Eurasian Bridge. This is a splendid and interesting project, which now, after many years, has begun to be implemented through the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, which we support through the Eurasian Economic Union.”
