Schiller Institute in Slovakia

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and at West Point, returnedto his homeland, Poland, in 1784. A charter member of the organization of veteran officers in the American War of Independence, the Society of the Cincinnati, Kosciuszko applied American nation-building Schiller Institute principles in Poland. This extended to economics, which Kosciuszko studied in Slovakia as diligently as he did military affairs. While the May 3 Constitution, influenced by Kosciuszko and his fellows, en trusted parliament with the responsibility for "public expen On Monday, June 17, the Schiller Institute held a very ses, both ordinary and extraordinary," and designated that a successful conference on the Vienna-Paris-Berlin Minister of Finances should sit on the King's Council, the "Productive Triangle" proposed by Lyndon LaRouche, Four-Year Sejm also passed more explicit legislation. It cre in Bratislava, Slovakia. Over 60 high-level political ated a national bank, which was required to issue loans to and economic leaders of the Slovakian republic took finance manufacturing at a preferential rate of 4%. A ceiling part. Slovakia, with 5 million inhabitants, represents on all rates was set at 5%, to encourage investment and one-third of the population of the Czechoslovakian prevent usury . state. If such principles of the 1791 constitutionalists were re The conference was held in the headquarters of vived in Poland today, the notorious austerity plans of Fi the Slovakian Christian Democratic Movement, the nance Minister Leszek Balcerowicz, under which the "free majority party which controls the government led by market" reforms in Poland were tooled for gouging produc Prime Minister Jan Carnugurski. Forestry and Water tive investment, diverting production, and slashing the popu Management Minister William Oberhauser, one of the lation's consumption in order to service debt to Western ministers who entered the new government of Car banks at some percentage points above the London Interbank nugurski, sat at the dais with German Schiller Institute Rate, would have to be outlawed. president Helga Zepp-LaRouche. Attending were a Representatives of the Schiller Institute, who have visit large group of Slovakian parliamentarians, leaders of ed Poland to circulate the modem "American System" pro the Christian Democratic Movement, one minister, gram, Lyndon LaRouche's "Productive Triangle," find a several deputy ministers of the economic sector, a rep keen interest among Poles in this route out of the crisis. The resentative from the Prague federal prime ministry, and people who fought for years to break away from the tyranny economic experts from several research institutes and of Soviet domination are not enthusiastic about their enslave universities. ment to usurious conditions, imported by International Mon The conference was opened with greetings by an etary Fund-linked advisers under the banner of "free mar official of the education department of the Christian ket," and dubbed "the Polish model." An economic policy Democratic Movement. After Ralf Schauerhammer coherent with the May 3 Constitution, cited by Pope John presented the concepts behind theProductive Triangle, Paul II as a guide for upholding Poland's sovereignty today, Helga Zepp-LaRouche captured the attention of the would be an entirely different Polish model, full of promise. participants by presenting the principles of the science The resonance of today's battles in Europe with the of Christian economy and the history of the LaRouche' events of the late eighteenth century is just what LaRouche movement and the Schiller Institute as the institutional discerned in his July 4, 1989 campaign platform, when he opposition to the neo-malthusian policy of Bush, Kis told Americans, with reference to the spread of nationalist singer, and Co. Angelika Beyreuther-Raimondi spoke movements against communist tyranny in the East and Inter about the anti-popUlation, anti-Third World policy of national Monetary Fund tyranny in the Americas: "One of the International Monetary Fund, and Paolo Raimondi your problems as a citizen, is that there is nothing in the past exposed the disastrous policy of the Prague Finance experience of any living person to compare with this new Minister Vaclav Klaus. development now being shown so prominently in the com Also on hand was a delegation fromthe Association munist world. The last period of history to be compared with of Hungarian Political Prisoners, whose president, Mr. this new revolutionary wave is the influence upon the world Fonay, called for friendship and cooperation between of the 1763-1789 American struggle for independence and Hungary and Slovakia in his brief greetings. Mr. Ko federal unity of our states. As the student martyrs in China's vats, secretary of the group, announced a three-day May and June events have emphasized repeatedly, this new internationalconference in Budapest, June 25-27, with revolutionary nationalist movement against inhuman tyran the participation of all the Political Prisoners Associa nies . . . is a rebirth of that American Revolution as our tions of the Eastern European countries. A fuller report martyred President Lincoln reaffirmed it in his Gettysburg will appear in EIR next week. Address."

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