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How Bertrand Russell Became an Evil Man
byLyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.Reflections Upon Tragedy & Hope
PrologueThe spark of genius in the pre-school child, if it has not been destroyed already, is oftentypified by the Socratic manner in which the child asks "Why?" Sadly, in the United States in ourtimes, that spark of genius is usually soon quenched by the old dishwater of what Riesmantermed "other-directedness,"
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by that peculiar turn of the sadistic screw sometimes namedeuphemistically empiricism and pragmatism. A child's spark of genius, the wont to find out howand why past or current opinions and events came into existence, is replaced by brutish faith inthe fruits of mere inductive generalization from individual and collective experience, a form of moral self-degradation often termed "practical common sense," or with credit given appropriatelyto bestiality, "horse sense."All of the truly great philosophers and teachers of the known history of Europeancivilization, beginning with the best of the Ionian Greeks, and associated famously with Plato'sAcademy at Athens, or Nicolaus of Cusa and Gottfried Leibniz, have evoked true genius fromwithin young people by recapturing that innate spark of potential, using what is most fairlydescribed as Socratic method. Formalism, by contrast, kills the soul, as this was recognized bythe most famous of the modern formalists, Venice's Pietro Pomponazzi,
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 who searched for hisown soul, and, poor schlemiel that he had become, reported that he had none.Thus, since it is that innate spark of potential for genius in every human child which sets allmankind absolutely apart from and above the beasts, we are able to recognize, as Philo of Alexandria shows this the necessary reading of Moses' first chapter of Genesis, that that qualityof genius is the human soul, is the aspect of the individual person which is, in the Latin of Nicolaus of Cusa, both imago Dei (the image of God) and capax Dei (the potential to participatein God).
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 Thus, the formalism which caused the loss of Pomponazzi's soul is intrinsically theadversary of the Good, is evil.Fortunately, in most cases it is possible to requicken the spark of genius innate to the newchild. All the great teachers did this. Every good teacher attempts to do that in some degree, inhis or her approximation of the Socratic method employed by Plato, Eudoxus, Theaetetus,Archimedes, Cusa, and Leibniz. One need but reawaken the genius of the child, by citing thepassword to genius, "Why?"Begin by choosing an important single event from history. Choose any such event in whichthere is evidence that the event was motivated by aid of some widely accepted, but fraudulentpretext. Seek to discover what motivated that fraud, and seek to uncover also the reasons thatfraud was tolerated by its dupes. Keep asking "Why"? Peel the onion, layer by layer, until thehistory embedded in that single act is brought to the surface. The result of that sort of Socraticexercise is a referent for the proper definition of the word "knowledge."So, let us begin.See in your mind's eye a B-29 bomber aircraft, called the "Enola Gay," flying to its hellishappointment, that horror-stricken summer's day in 1945.
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Why did the United States government
 
2drop the only two nuclear-fission weapons in its arsenal upon those two virtually defenselesspopulation-centers in Japan? The U.S. government lied when it said this was necessary to saveperhaps a million or so U.S. soldiers' lives. Before the dropping of what quickly came to bedescribed in awe-stricken tones as "the bomb," the Emperor of Japan was already negotiatingsurrender with the Truman government, through Vatican channels, on the same terms Japan'ssurrender was accepted after the bombs were dropped.
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 With that brief reminiscence, we have touched the history of this century at one of its crucialturning-points.Since the alleged military urgency of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was alie, whose purpose did that bombing serve? One of those whose purpose was served inHiroshima that day, was a modern Mephistopheles, Bertrand Russell, whose shadow is castominously upon both the living and generations of all mankind yet unborn, at the projected 1994U.N.O. Cairo Population Conference. To understand why British intelligence networks inside theU.S. government manipulated President Harry Truman into dropping those unnecessary atombombs upon Japanese civilians, it suffices to read Russell's own explanation of his and WinstonChurchill's nuclear-weapons policy, in the September 1946 edition of The Bulletin of the AtomicScientists: "The Atomic Bomb and the Prevention of War."
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 In that 1946 report, Russell presents his motive for the continued use of the geopoliticalthreat of nuclear weaponry by himself, Winston Churchill, et al.: to blackmail Moscow intosubmitting to an agreement whose purpose, Russell states explicitly there, is to transform thethen recently established United Nations Organization into the kind of one-world dictatorship forwhich his world-federalist utopians have continued to work throughout this century.
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 Russell's strategic dogma, as articulated in that 1946 edition of The Bulletin of the AtomicScientists, has shaped most of the history of this planet since that date. Since Soviet GeneralSecretary N.S. Khrushchev sent four official representatives to Russell in London in 1955, tonegotiate a thermonuclear condominium along the lines Russell had prescribed in that 1946statement of his strategic doctrine,
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 until the fall of the Gorbachev government in August 1991,the smaller and weaker nations of the world have been ruled by a U.N.O. world government inthe form of a thermonuclear condominium between the political blocs dominated respectively bythe two rival super-powers, Moscow and the Anglo-Americans.For those who know both the approximately fifty-years history of the discovery of nuclearfission and fusion, since the discoveries of both Professor Dmitri Mendeleyev and the Curies,
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 the proof exists to show that Russell's intent as expressed in that 1946 article, was the same intentwhich Russell and his cronies had in duping the United States government into building thebomb in the first place: to produce and use a weapon so horrifying that nations would surrendertheir sovereignties to a global arbiter of policy, a United Nations world-government dictatorship,the "final imperialism."Excepting a few, such as the Dr. Leo Szilard,
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who was approximately as evil as his masterRussell, most of the scientists working on the Manhattan Project were, like the Fusion EnergyFoundation co-founder, the late Professor Robert J. Moon,
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 dedicated and accomplishedpersons, who sincerely believed Russell's great lie of 1939, that Hitler was committed to buildinga nuclear-fission weapon, and that we must get there first. Russell and his cronies, the trueauthors of the famous letter to President Franklin Roosevelt which Russell's cabal induced AlbertEinstein to sign,
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 knew that Hitler was not going to sponsor such research and that the relevantGerman scientists around Professor Werner Heisenberg were determined that such a weapon notbe built for Hitler's use.
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3Unlike the misinformed honest atom scientists, the Russell of 1939 pushed to have theweapon built for exactly the motives he articulated later in the 1946 restatement of his intent.World-federalist, utopian fanatic Russell conceived of the development and use of nuclearweaponry as a trick for terrifying governments into abandoning the right to defend theirsovereignties by military means. As he stated this purpose in his 1946 piece, he intended toterrify the peoples of the world into submitting to rule by a global arbiter of conflicts, to a worldempire, a global, Malthusian dictatorship of the United Nations Organization.Britain's Lord Bertrand Russell has been, beyond any reasonable doubt, the most evil publicfigure of the passing century. England's murdered Christopher Marlowe might have said fairlythat the Thule Society's monstrous Adolf Hitler was but a picaresque rogue cast as Dr. Faustus,whereas Russell was a true Mephistopheles. Marlowe would insist upon qualifying hisobservation: "A truly Venetian Mephistopheles."
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 Russell personally did not cause all of the evil which has proliferated throughout our planetduring the past hundred-odd years, but he was one of the most influential individuals amongthose who did. Moreover, if one traces out the influences which caused Russell to become an evilman, one will also come to understand not only what went wrong during the Twentieth Century,but many preceding centuries before that.The Twentieth Century will go down in future history, as the century which is outstandingfor the endless monotony of its popularly believed lies. The myth of Bertrand Russell as anutopian humanitarian, is perhaps among the more widespread such lies which persist as generallyaccepted among literate people who ought to know better. How is such amazing credulity of presumably literate, educated people possible, even up to the highest ranks in academia and eventhe intelligence services of the U.S. government, for example? We use the case of Russell here asan example of that problem. Reviewing the highlights of Russell's multifarious evil provides thesetting in which to supply the answer to the question, "Why are today's putatively literate peopleso blindly credulous?"The answer to that question is the subject of this report.1. Russell and HitlerRussell played many strings on his fiddle of evil. His proposals for genocide, especiallyagainst populations with darker skin-hues than that of the Vril Society's self-esteemed Anglo-Saxon master race, are fully as satanic, and more viciously personalized than his policies of world dictatorship through nuclear terrorism. He was also a savage hoaxster in his corrosiveinfluence within the domains of philosophy and natural science. He was not even truly British;there is not a gram of concern for the well-being of the inhabitants of the United Kingdom in thatscoundrel. No notable representative of liberal philosophy during this century, not even suchconsummately perverse creatures as Sigmund Freud or Theodor Adorno,
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 has been soconsistently a virtual incarnation of Satan as the Mephistopheles of this century, the evil Russell.Yet, within each part of the intellectual spectrum which he infested at one time or another of his life, there are still dupes who regard this unmitigated scoundrel as a respectable figure, even agreat intellect. How could civilization have fallen so low, that many among the world's putativeintelligentsia exhibit such intellectual or even moral shamelessness as to profess what is termedpopularly "respect" for such a creature?Consider a handful of crucial passages from Russell's racialist writings of the pre-war andpost-war period; these writings show the true moral nature of the purpose to which Russell
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