For our Christmas Day Fireside Chat, we present to you a speech by Lyndon LaRouche on September 3, 1994, titled, “Building a Bridge from Hell to Purgatory.”

After just being released from prison, American economist and statesman Lyndon LaRouche had presented for the first time the Eurasian Landbridge concept, a sweeping and comprehensive for the rapid industrialization of the globe, led by great projects of transportation, communications, energy, and water resources infrastructure, aimed at raising the standard of living of all nations toward and above that presently enjoyed today in the so-called industrialized sector.

With the aid of several maps, LaRouche presented several key development projects, such as the Oasis Plan in Southwest Asia, which could be built with the aid of a reorganized financial system that would inject credit into the nations of Eurasia, Africa, and South America. The policy presented here has effectively become the extended Belt and Road Initiative of China and similar “Win-Win” projects among the BRICS nations.

Such a new form of relations, premised on win-win cooperation, not zero-sum geopolitics, requires an axiomatic shift among the nations of the trans-Atlantic today, the kind which gave birth to the Golden Renaissance in Italy, and spread all over Europe in the 15th Century. This was the product of great universal geniuses such as Nicholas of Cusa, Leonardo da Vinci, Paolo Toscanelli, and others. In this presentation, LaRouche will present the fight waged by these Renaissance thinkers against the oligarchical financial powers centered in Venice, who fought to create a system of modern sovereign nation-states in Europe based on the idea that every human being was created in the living image of God.

On this Christmas Day, we wish all of you joy, peace and happiness. May today’s program allow you to reflect on state of the world, along with your responsibility in transforming your country by practicing self-government, and intervening on behalf of humanity with Agape, as LaRouche himself did for over 50 years as a public figure.