Beyond Common Sense - LaRouche

LaRouche reviewed the series of lectures that he had deliveredon university campuses and concluded that people wereobviously “blocking.” LaRouche explains that students whofailed to understand his lectures in Marxist economics gave hima clue as to a real problem in advancing the cause of worldrevolution:“in the effort to solve certain critical problems ofpedagogy in the teaching of dialectical method and Marxianeconomics...Specifically ‘extended reproduction’...Of all well-known Marxian economists, only RosaLuxemburg attained a credible comprehension of Marx Snotion of extended reproduction. From studies of theoutstanding secondary literature and experience with wellover a thousand students in the writer’s course in Marxianeconomics, it was possible to isolate the form of the mentalblockage which usually prevents comprehension of notionsof that order It was clear that remedial methods lay beyondthe scope of curriculum design per se. “ (1 5)For LaRouche there was a revolutionary potential for thisimportant discovery. LaRouche was preparing to, move into thepath of human psychology, taking along with him the Marxistsubstructure. The thought processes of “blocked” studentsfrom the university, students who had failed to understand hislectures would give the clues to the development of a newpolitical organisation, unblocking, mind-plumbing was the futurefor the LaRouche organisation.“it should be obvious that all talk of socialist organising ismerely pathetic chattering unless the organisation involved firstsettles account with the characteristic capitalist ideologychaining the minds