There is understandable confusion about what is the "American system". It is not the present get-rich-quick speculative system, which depends on cheap credit from private central banks into the hands of private, financial cartels, which use neo-colonial methods to exploit cheap labor and cheap raw materials, control legislatures, and deploy "gunboat diplomacy" against any country which rejects these 18th-19th century imperial policies. Lyndon LaRouche was the leading proponent of a return to the true American System policies. Here is a link to a speech explaining the difference, delivered in Berlin on March 2, 2006:
