SPEAKER: Will Wertz
Is the nation-state a historical accident, or a useful discovery, akin to a technology? The thinker most individually responsible for the Golden Renaissance, Nicolaus of Cusa, was also instrumental in creating the concept of the nation. Themes from three of Cusa's great works (On Learned Ignorance, On the Peace of Faith and Catholic Concordance) will be applied by Will Wertz to address the New Bretton Woods needed today.
This class will also address the fundamental divide between Plato and Aristotle and the emergence of the USA, in opposition to the British Empire and the Anglo-Dutch liberal system.
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The Federal Reserve is indeed unconstitutional and as you point out is a private central bank like the Bank of England or the ECB. What is needed is a National Bank as proposed and implemented by Alexander Hamilton, or the Greenback policy of Abraham Lincoln or the equivalent of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Lyndon LaRouche has proposed an act to nationalize the Federal Reserve as one way to return to American System of national banking. The need for a national-banking credit system is addressed in the second of his 4 Laws. You are right, such a policy would not only provide domestic credit for productive purposes, but also would be the basis for export credit, which is required for the four powers to cooperate through a New Bretton Woods system in global development projects such as the Chinese One Belt One Road initiative.
This issue cannot be answered in a paragraph or two. I would strongly suggest that you read some of Mr. LaRouche’s writings. One essay by him I would suggest is: “What is God, that Man is in his Image?” which can be found in Vol. IV. No. 1 Spring 1995 issue of Fidelio. (https://archive.schillerinstitute.com/fid_91-96/951_lar_what_is_god.html)
Man can be brutal when he behaves as an animal. But man in his true nature is different from an animal. No animal is capable of creativity. No animal is capable of inventing new forms of energy production, exploring space, increasing what Mr. LaRouche refers to as potential relative population density. Imperial systems attempt to suppress creativity and reduce man to an animal state. We are fighting for a form of society, a sovereign nation state, which is appropriate to man as in the living image of the Creator, that is, man, as the only creative species. And we are fighting for a fraternal system of such sovereign nation states, regardless of religion, etc.
Man has free will. If he didn’t he would merely be a machine. But since he has free will he can either act for the good or evil. If he act in an evil manner, that is not to be blamed on the Creator, but on how man exercises his free will. And also on how society is organized. See Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s writing entitled the Theodicy.
Mr. LaRouche recognizes a positive quality in Christianity associated with the contributions of certain Christian thinkers, like Nicolaus of Cusa, whose ideas are coherent with the views of Plato, who was not Christian, with Philo of Alexandria, who was Jewish, and Ibn Sina, who was a Muslim. However, in all cases he does not operate on the basis of any unexamined doctrine, but rather only on the basis of that which is provable scientifically.
The idea of Capax Dei means the capacity to be creative as in the case of the Creator. As Nicolaus of Cusa says, man is a second god, but not Absolute God, rather a human god. In Christian theology, only human beings have the capacity to become divine. The Word or Logos could only become flesh in a species capable of receiving the Logos. Only a human being could become the Son of God. In Christian theology other human beings can become adopted sons of God, by exercising their Capax Dei. See Nicolaus of Cusa’s essay On Filiation.
It is preferable that a sovereign nation state have as fullset an economy as possible. In the transition, one limiting factor is the availability of required resources, such as a nation which does not have oil or gas resources, or uranium or a nation which may not be able to provide itself with all of the agricultural products required.
But there are nations today which could for instance be self-sufficient in food production, but because of free trade policies, are not. Take the nation of Mexico. It currently imports 100% of its beans and corn, both of which are staples of its diet. This occurred as a result of NAFTA.
Every nation should focus on the frontiers of science and on advanced technology. Third world countries should have a focus on space and nuclear energy in cooperation with more advanced countries. Third world nations, while importing capital goods from developed nations, should do so in order to develop their own technological capabilities and skilled work force.
This is why Mr. LaRouche emphasizes that sovereign nation states also need to cooperate on development projects and on scientific research and on such projects as space and fusion development.
The cooperation must thus focus on increasing the productive powers of the populations of each of the cooperating sovereign nation states.
1. I’ve heard it said that the nations making up the 4 Powers consists of the most populous nations on Earth, but Russia carries a smaller percentage of the world population than Indonesia, so why is it included?
2. How is a new global economic system supposed to work without Europe? Collectively Europe carries a larger percentage of global GDP than India or Russia.