Anton Chaitkin Interview: Restoring America's Historic Global Mission

The LaRouche Organization History Project is excited to announce an exclusive 1 1/2 interview with historian Anton Chaitkin streaming live this Sunday at 7:00 PM EDT. Chaitkin has just published the second volume of his ground breaking trilogy Who We Are: America's Fight for Universal Progress, from Franklin to Kennedy.

According to the author:

… My “scoop,” my contribution to written history, is that I have traced out and proven two fundamental things about the character of the people who actually built up the United States, who made it a success.

First, demonstrated in detail that nationalists built the USA, overcoming the fierce and mortal attack of the imperial anti-national faction. These nationalists sought the advancement of their own country with protective tariffs and sovereign national banking and great national projects, thereby proving that the policies of free trade and globalism are only a suicidal trap set by man’s enemies.

Second, I showed in great detail that these same nation-building American nationalists were the very ones who worked for the advancement and progress of other countries’ industry and national greatness. They did this by inspiring and aiding great industrial initiatives and great transport projects in other countries, and by sharing with these other countries our American-bred concepts of national sovereignty and self-government, against the imperial system, against globalism. We became the greatest anti-imperial power, and the great influence against war.

But at certain times, such as when the slaveowners predominated, or when Teddy Roosevelt took power, a false and brutal chauvinism was substituted for actual nationalism, placing the U.S. in alliance with the British empire. But we rallied several times, to go back somehow to Benjamin Franklin’s happy path to a better future. And our successful nationalism was the model for people’s revolt against British-style imperialism.

The imperial enemy saw this American nationalism in action and was bitterly displeased. They were filled with rage and the desire to snuff out this independent spirit that was spreading.

That "imperial enemy," embodied today in the NATO/Atlanticist drive for world war, can absolutely be defeated simply by restoring the United States to its actual mission in history.

Join LaRouche Organization history editor Christopher Sare this Sunday evening for this exciting discussion!