Rick Potvin wrote:
> Hello. I'm looking for extropian minded people who have read and are
> familiar with LaRouche's views of world history and economics. Would
> you drop by my forum at http://network54.com/Forum/54808?
>
> It seems to me that LaRouche's description of American history and the
> conclusions that he draws for a successful future for civilization are
> worthy of extropian / transhuman comment and consideration. (The
> Extropy search engine hasn't been working for awhile so I couldn't do a
> proper search on that database. References to Extropy & LaRouche would
> be appreciated).
>
> Please use my forum above since I like to use that type of web forum
> more than having to search the Extropy email digest for responses. The
> web-forum seems a lot more convenient.
>
> Keep in mind that LaRouche is very big on a sovereign nation-state being
> able to produce it's own machine tools. Even though he doesn't reflect
> any awareness of the coming nanotechnological revolution, nano-tools, I
> believe, would fall into the category of "machine-tools" that he talks
> about as vital to any "physical economy".
LaRouche is still trapped in the materialist marxist industrial dialectic
concept, which is why he is a socialist and is NOT extropian.
Mike Lorrey
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