INVITATION

Saturday, January 20, 2024, 11:00 a.m. (EST)

A New Paradigm for the Next Fifty Years

International Youth Dialogue with Helga Zepp-LaRouche

The nearly unanimous Dec. 8, 2023, vote in the United Nations Security Council for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, in response to UN Secretary General António Guterres’s historic invocation of Article 99 of the UN Charter, is a declaration of a common intention of the world at large. The Global Majority desires to live up to the purpose of the UN Charter: To end the scourge of war, and to advance the universal rights of all human beings to peaceful development. But the U.S. and U.K. governments, dominated by the military-financial complex centered in Wall Street and the City of London, have flagrantly opposed international law, blocking the UN from taking action to stop Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.

The crisis in Southwest Asia is just one expression of an extraordinarily dangerous global strategic situation. Are we not in the preliminary stages of a Third World War, which could rapidly become nuclear Armageddon should we fail to establish a security and development architecture adequate to serve the common interests of mankind?

The reign of the war-makers must come to an end, because it threatens the human species. The only way in which the United States and the nations of Europe can rescue their economies from the systemic breakdown of the trans-Atlantic financial system is to “retool” the industrial capabilities of the vast military-financial complex that is now wasting those resources—and trillions of dollars a year—and use that to create the physical economic power for global development. If we would rather not relive the Weimar hyperinflation crisis, then we had better beat our swords of Damocles into high-tech plowshares—the high-speed trains, continental water management systems, nuclear power stations, and lunar scientific and industrial facilities we will need for the next two generations.

The governments of China, Russia, and other nations have contributed their unique conceptions of the principles that need to be employed to ensure humanity’s common survival and progress. These various proposals, advanced directly by Chinese President Xi Jinping in the idea of a “Global Community of Shared Future”; and by Russian President Vladimir Putin in remarks delivered at the Valdai Discussion Club in October 2023, are contributions to an already powerful global dialogue. Nations of the so-called “Global Majority” associated with the BRICS-Plus, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the African Union, and other such organizations are determined to end over 500 years of Western colonial rule.

If we as a species are to navigate the change in epoch successfully, that dialogue must grow to include major institutions in the West—and even sane members of the establishment, those who are ready to lay aside hubris, admit the errors of Western leaders that led to the strategic crisis, and take bold action to end the domination of a Malthusian oligarchy. If Western nations would return to the humanist tradition that characterized the Golden Renaissance, the Treaty of Westphalia, and the founding of the United States republic, such a change would be welcomed with open arms by the rest of the world.

In November of 2022, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the international Schiller Institute, made her own contribution to this global dialogue in the presentation of her “Ten Principles of a New International Security and Development Architecture.” This proposal reflects and incorporates the revolutionary methods of physical economic science discovered and pioneered by Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche’s late husband, the American economist and statesman Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Her concluding tenth principle seeks to do what previous models for international order have not yet accomplished: to lay a sufficient philosophical basis for that order. She proposes:

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 being the most advanced geological force in the universe, which proves that the lawfulness of the mind and that of the physical universe are in correspondence and cohesion, and that all evil is the result of a lack of development, and therefore can be overcome.

As we reflect on the horror in Gaza, as well as that in Sudan, and on the assertions by Israeli government officials that their chosen targets are “human animals,” the time has come to say with one voice, “There are no human animals, for mankind is the only creative species.”

The Schiller Institute invites the youth of the world to join a free dialogue with Helga Zepp-LaRouche, to be held on Saturday, January 20, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. (EST). The purpose of this dialogue is to bring together young minds to discuss what youth can do to contribute to a new, just paradigm in human relations.

Where will humanity be in 2074? Will we have succeeded in creating an era of harmonious discovery and development? Let us study the best ideas from each civilization, in dialogue with one another, and move the governments of the world to fulfill the potential embedded within those treasures, by implementing policies designed to eradicate poverty, educate all people, and expand man’s understanding of his role in the universe. Toward these goals, please join us in organizing this online dialogue, which will be on Zoom, with simultaneous interpretation into Spanish, German and French.

For further information, please contact: questions@schillerinstitute.org