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Lyndon LaRouche and his wifeHelga Zepp-LaRouche were fea-

tured speakers at a special event onMay 6 in the central German city ofHalle, where the Nineteenth-centurymathematician and philosopher GeorgCantor lived and taught. This yearmarks the 150th anniversary of Can-tor’s birth.

Delivering opening greetings fromthe city government, City CouncilmanGaertner reported that Halle is thesecret “cultural capital” of the state ofSachsen-Anhalt, in former East Ger-many, and that the Georg Cantor Gym-nasium (High School) in Halle is work-ing to educate a scientific elite.

Schiller Institute founder HelgaZepp-LaRouche introduced her hus-band as the keynote speaker, notingthat today there is, in this old universitytown, no “expert” on Cantor. “Anexpert obviously can only be somebodywho has helped to further developCantor’s ideas and freed them from thepurely mathematical domain, and thisis what Lyndon LaRouche has done,”

she said.LaRouche focussed his remarks on

Cantor’s concept of the Transfinite,which was formative in LaRouche’sown creative discovery—involving theapplication of Cantor’s concept to eco-nomic measurement in physical eco-nomic theory.

The Transfinite

LaRouche said he had begun his studyof Cantor’s work starting from thestandpoint of the mathematician Bern-hard Riemann’s 1854 habilitation thesis.LaRouche used this study of Cantor andRiemann to attack what he called the“naive imagination,” which considersextension infinitely divisible.

He discussed the relevance of this tothe development of the modern nation-state and the breakthrough made by thefounder of physical economy, G.W.Leibniz, who made a “revolution incameralism through the idea of power,in the sense of energy and new forms oftechnology increasing the power oflabor.”

Halle Hosts Cantor Seminar

Georg Cantor’s birthplace in former East Germany celebrates with presentations on thecontribution the mathematician’s discoveries must make to science today. Seated at thepodium are Lyndon and Helga LaRouche.

At the end of the visit, the SchillerInstitute delegation participated in theSecond Nigerian Economic Summit(May 3-6) in Abuja, which was openedby General Abacha.

After six ministers of the Federalgovernment gave presentations,Lawrence Freeman gave a fifteen-minute speech entitled, “An Economicand Moral Alternative to the PresentMonetary System,” in which hereviewed Lyndon LaRouche’s plan forglobal bankruptcy reorganization and aNew Just World Economic Order. TheWorld Bank representative, visiblyshaken by the applause Freemanreceived, was barely able to complete hisprepared speech.

After hearing speeches by represen-tatives of Mobil Oil and Michelin, theaudience directed all questions to Free-man, with the majority applauding hisharsh criticisms of I.M.F./World Bankpolicies. Freeman concluded by identify-ing “free trade” as “a fraud concocted byAdam Smith to help the British loottheir African colonies during the Nine-teenth century.” At that point, a fewAmerican and British representatives ofmultinational companies walked out,while most of the Nigerians cheeredenthusiastically.

exonerating Lyndon LaRouche, andtwenty parliamentarians added theirnames to the call for the exoneration ofLaRouche and his imprisoned associates.

That same day, the privatization lawwhich had been presented to theUkrainian legislature as part of thepackage with the I.M.F. budget and acorresponding billion-dollar I.M.F. loan,was debated, put to a vote and defeated.Among the bill’s primary opponentswas Prof. Natalya Vitrenko, head of asubcommittee of the Economics Com-mittee; she and MP VladimirMarchenko had visited the U.S. inMarch at the invitation of the SchillerInstitute.

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gration of today’s international finan-cial structures. Led by Dennis Small,Ibero-American editor of EIR and aformer political prisoner, the panelpresented a devastating, well-docu-mented case showing how the eco-nomic “experts” had been wrong, espe-cially concerning the Mexico crisis, andLaRouche and EIR had been right.Small was joined by EIR’s John Hoe-fle, who showed how financial specula-tion in areas like derivatives has grownup on the ruins of the physical econo-my.Also included were analyses of theRussian economic collapse written by

EIR executive director inEurope Michael Liebig,and on the Argentine eco-nomic crisis by CarlosGonzalez .

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Conference: ‘Give Newt the Boot!’

Conference concert: Institute chorus and orchestra perform Haydn’s “Stabat Mater.”

What, then, is the real meaning ofscience? LaRouche asked. “Science dif-ferentiates between bad and good imagi-nation,” he answered. In formal science,if you change an axiom, there is no con-tinuity, there is a gap, he continued.“Whereas in Leibniz’s Monadology, wehave an infinite continuity, because, asin all real science, existing objects arenot objects of sense-perception, butideas.”

Ideas Are Metaphors

How does one measure that? “All ideasare metaphors—not numbers or bits ofinformation,” he said. And a metaphorsignals the existence of a paradox. This,he said, is how we measure progress.“Every time you have scientific progress,you have a discontinuity. . . . There-fore, economic science is the ordering ofdiscontinuities in the sense of Cantor’sconcept of power.”

LaRouche’s remarks fell on fertileground, as this region of eastern Ger-many has been wrecked during thelast five years with the advent of “freeenterprise.” Asked how to convincethe German people to continue fight-ing for solutions, LaRouche said thatthe enormous courage the people informer East Germany had shown inrising up against the machine guns ofthe communists, was betrayed after-wards by the political-economicprocess of the I.M.F.-Treuhand regime.The question therefore is how tomaintain and strengthen this qualityof courage.

Leipzig Youth Choir

The only way to accomplish this, hesaid, is to expose people to the works ofgreat art, great drama, and great music.He cited the example of the youth choirof the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig,where J.S. Bach was choir master andwhere the 1989 revolution was born.LaRouche heard the choir during histrip, and said the experience was amongthe most exciting in his life, because itshowed how to consciously produce cre-ativity in children.

LaRouche’s essay, “Georg Cantor:The Next Century,” accompanies a trans-lation of Cantor’s correspondence on theTransfinite, in Fidelio, Vol. III, No. 3,

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