“The One Future of Humanity”

International Youth Dialogue with Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of The Schiller Institute

Tuesday, September 30

10:00 Mexico City / 12:00 New York / 17:00 Lagos / 18:00 Paris / 19:00 Kampala

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What vision do you cherish, for the future of mankind as whole? If you are a child of the 21st century—what do you see in the 22nd, or beyond? Do you conceive of a world of beauty, justice, and the harmonious development of mankind? What is the creative power within us, that will provide for that future, and what must we do, to ensure it triumphs?

Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, has identified the special potential and responsibility of the youth of the world to intervene on the stage of history, together—to lift populations out of the dungeon of pessimism, and into the heaven of invention. And there is ample reason to be joyful about the future, in spite of the present darkness. Amid the ongoing horror of genocide in Palestine, the danger of nuclear extinction war, and the seeming total breakdown of international law, a truly creative action is now establishing the means to solve all of these problems. 

A new international paradigm based on the harmonious polyphony of all nations has taken root, the fruits of which were visible at the recent massive Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting in Tianjin, China, and the military parade in Beijing days later. This dynamic, which begins with the idea of the “one mankind,” belongs to all past and future generations, in whose name it is being established—but it depends on you to take up the mission, if it is going to succeed globally.

We are calling on youth from all nations to work together immediately to answer the needs of this new paradigm, which include confronting the unimaginable moral catastrophe of the continuing global failure to save Gaza from genocide. Concrete actions must be taken by governments, such as those listed in the Schiller Institute’s recent statement distributed at the UN General Assembly in New York, to bring about a just future for the entire Middle East. The effort to revive international law on the basis of the UN Charter and the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, led today by China’s Global Governance Initiative, must be successful, if we are to avoid world war. And, in order to prevent the disorderly collapse of the hopelessly bankrupt Western financial system and guarantee the right to sovereign economic development to every nation, a new international security and development architecture must be organized, as according to the scientific principles of physical economy discovered by the late American economist and statesman Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. If the collective West would only change course in this direction, the Global Majority would welcome them with open arms. Who will ensure these requirements are met, other than the young people who will lead humanity over the coming fifty years?

Reflecting on the recent events in China, Zepp-LaRouche said the following:

“This is an absolute breakthrough… This is truly a new era of mankind. And if we succeed in getting a positive attitude toward it, and stop geopolitics, and just say, ‘we will cooperate as equals with this new system’—we can solve the war danger, we can solve the economic crisis, we can even solve the bankrupt financial system of the West, we can solve the situation in the Middle East, in Ukraine. And I can only say: This is a day for every human being of good will to be not only happy, but also to be exuberant. This is a breakthrough for all of mankind, and this is really good news!

“We have to look at the one humanity. And the reason why I’m so really optimistic about what happened in Tianjin, in China, and the whole process going on with the BRICS and the SCO, and the emergence of this new era—is because you have, for the first time, the idea of the shared humanity. This is a conception by Xi Jinping. He said, we have to have a shared community of the one humanity, or the one future of humanity.

”And that is the mental jump we have to make. Because, if you start with the fact that we are one humankind, and that we have more in common, and more common interests, than what divides us—namely, that we are the creative species, the only one known in the universe so far, and that we can relate to the creative identity of each other—and if we work on that, and actualize that creativity, we can produce anything! There is no limit in terms of what mankind can do, in terms of composition of music, poetry, economics, science, conquering space through space research and travel, thermonuclear fusion. There is no limit!”

We invite students and youth from all nations to join Helga Zepp-LaRouche in dialogue on September 30 over video conference, and take up their own chosen role in this process. The dialogue will have live interpretation into Spanish, French, and German. RSVP to receive the Zoom link.