Zepp-LaRouche’s Punctum Saliens: Non-Aligned Movement Can Rescue the World

Dec. 8, 2022 (EIRNS)—Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s contribution to the forthcoming book, Bandung-Belgrade-Havana in Global History and Perspective: The Deployment of Bandung Constellation Towards a Shared Global Future, succinctly and powerfully makes the case for the current key role of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in stopping the reckless dance with thermonuclear extinction, and putting the human race back on a human track. Her 8-page article is entitled, “The Role of the Nonaligned Movement in a New Paradigm in International Relations.” The book was produced as part of the Nov. 7-14 Bandung Spirit conference, which Zepp-LaRouche addressed online.

In brief, it doesn’t work any more even to speak merely of a European security arrangement. Both the financial crisis driving the geopolitical confrontations and the real danger of nuclear war require nothing short of an international solution. Hence, the “Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence” and the “Spirit of Bandung” are not merely a temporary survival strategy, steering between two competing powers, but actually the appropriate characteristic for the new paradigm required.

The NAM’s 1976 conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, featured Indira Gandhi’s four points, echoing the 1975 International Development Bank proposal of Lyndon LaRouche for a new credit system to facilitate global development. What followed then were assassinations and destabilizations of the leaders of the NAM summit in Sri Lanka.

But it is the present impossible situation—with the dramatic increase of the rich over the poor, and the horrifying starvation, in which a child under 10 years dies every 5 seconds—that warrants nothing less than that the Non-Aligned Movement pull rank and confront the greed and fantasies of modern-day colonialists. Further, the years of decline, if not full-scale collapse of the financial system, now openly discussed, makes it overripe for that system to be replaced. What must be done, can be done.

Sovereign governments can actually create credit—but on what basis? Lyndon LaRouche, the physical economy genius, already answered that question. The new arrangements “must vector towards an increase in the energy flux density in the production process, leading to an increase in the potential relative population-density of each nation.”