This article appears in the March 17, 2023 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.
Schiller Institute Gives Mission to All Youth
‘End Colonialism! Build a New, Just Economic Order’
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March 12—This weekend, a group of college students and other young people, including organizers for the Feb. 19 “Rage Against the War Machine” anti-war rally in Washington, D.C., assembled in Brooklyn, New York for the Schiller Institute Youth Conference: “To End Colonialism: A Mission for All Youth.” They were joined by a larger international audience on the livestream of the event. One attendee, expressing his joy at the optimistic outlook of the conference, exemplified the spirit of the gathering. He reported that he had no idea that such mega projects as the World Land-Bridge were even feasible. The conference featured attendees and presentations from nations around the world including, to this author’s knowledge, the United States, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Germany, India, Syria, Uganda, and Yemen. The videos of the two-panel, six-hour conference are available here.
The presentations reflected the profound, ongoing change among nations, individuals, and their leaders. Each presentation was thoughtful, optimistic, and exciting, the majority of them focusing on visionary projects for the future, such as the Bering Strait Tunnel, East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), the first Ugandan space satellite, and a crash program for commercial fusion energy. One notable presentation came from a 16-year-old BRICS Youth Parliament member in Yemen, who spoke about the aspirations of his nation, and the influence of Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s Ten Fundamental Principles in catalyzing a dialogue among his nation’s leaders and representatives. Another very insightful presentation—a prerecorded video from LaRouche Youth member Cade Levinson—discussed the historical importance of Scranton as America’s first industrial city, along with the role of American System proponents, Henry Carey, Abraham Lincoln, and others, in making the United States the most productive economy in the world at that point.
At the end of her keynote, Helga Zepp-LaRouche highlighted the last of her Ten Fundamental Principles:
“The basic assumption for the new paradigm is, that man is fundamentally good and capable to infinitely perfect the creativity of his mind and the beauty of his soul ... and that all evil is the result of a lack of development, and therefore can be overcome.”
She underscored, “The whole thing is a comprehensive conception, and I would like you to study this, and to help us to put this on the agenda everywhere. Because we need a change to a new security and development architecture, which implements these points; and that can only be done if we storm the universities. If we get all the think tanks of the world to join and get all moral people around the world to act like world citizens. If we do all of that, I think we are at the most exciting change from a barbaric world order where many billions of people are suffering, to a world which is truly human. And I’m calling on you to be the absolute active agents to bring about that change.”
That call to act and think like world citizens permeated throughout the entire event. As the Belt and Road Initiative, initially launched by Chinese President Xi Jinping in September 2013, approaches its tenth year, more work remains to be done to recruit younger generations to spur the United States and the rest of the trans-Atlantic world to join this new, postcolonial era.
As the majority of the world is now rejecting the system of oligarchism represented by Global NATO and its Anglo-American headmasters, new institutions have arisen, such as BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and the Eurasian Economic Union, all of which represent the potential for a new, just world security and development architecture, as Schiller Institute Chairwoman Helga Zepp-LaRouche has been calling for in her speeches, writings, and interviews.
The Schiller Institute, in this incredibly revolutionary moment in history, will continue its role in ensuring that the youth of the world are given a special responsibility to shape a new paradigm based on prosperity, development, and the common aims of mankind.
Preview the issue here and see the full table of contents.
The Schiller Institute has just released Volume 2, No. 1, of its new journal Leonore, which opens with the following from Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.’s October 20, 2002, article, “The Historical Individual:”
“The principal cause for the doom of any culture, is that mental disorder typical of popular opinion, which is to assume the validity of any assumptions currently adopted by a learned profession, or religious teaching, or more crudely adopted as ‘generally accepted popular opinion’.”
The 88-page issue, contains eleven articles, including the first English translation of one of the last letters by the 15th century scientific and political genius, Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa, which has been called his “religious last will,” and an original translation of Friedrich Schiller’s “On the Sublime,” described as “perhaps his most refined discussion of the process of the development of the soul.”
The preview includes the ground-breaking article by Jason Ross, “Vernadskian Time: Time for Humanity,” which addresses “the paradoxes posed by Vernadsky’s scientific work,” which open the way to a an entirely new set of definitions of space, time and matter, taken from the standpoint of the human mind.
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