LYM Cadre School
LaRouche Youth Discover Their Role in History
by Jessica Tremblay
LaRouche Youth Movement
Aug. 17 (EIRNS)Two weeks after the historic intervention of the LaRouche Youth Movement into the Democratic Party Convention in Boston, the East Coast branch of the LYM gathered in rural Pennsylvania Aug. 14-15 for our summer cadre school. About 100 youth used the opportunity of a full weekend of discovery and discussion, to understand more in-depth what it means to be a citizen of a republic.
We opened the weekend, on Friday evening, with the now-famous "Think" canon by Mozart, who composed the "Trinkkanon" over 200 years ago, to words which made fun of a silly blueblood, whom Mozart went after with great humor. It was sung with words which give the canon a new political meaning: "Dubious is the convention, if LaRouche you fail to mention." This set the stage for a political skit on our ground work in Boston, performed by Randy Kim and Merv Fansler.
The high point of the evening was a dramatic reading of the Ruetli Oath scene from Friedrich Schiller's play "William Tell." Why a reading of "William Tell"? Because, as in the period of the conspiracy of the citizens of the Swiss Cantons against the tyranny of the Hapsburgian oligarchs in the 13th Century, we, today, are in a period where people's minds are more open to embrace great and profound ideas. 'This Planet Will Never Forget Me'
Lyndon LaRouche opened the Saturday morning panel of the cadre school, and our friends from Seattle were able to join us via telephone hookup. All I can say, is, that LaRouche's speech was amazing. He put the work of the LYM in complete perspective, addressing, from the first sentence, the question of our historical mission. How do you address a group of well over 150 young people, who just got a sense of their political power, through their intervention into the Convention in Boston, and get them to ever better understand the force that they represent?
LaRouche described how he, personally, changed history. He gave us an overview of how he created his first youth movement in the early 1970s, and then intervened to stop the U.S. policy, under Zbigniew Brzezinski, of nuclear confrontation with the Soviet Union. The third idea he developed was: What is the method by which we must understand historical processes? He said, "My point is, to get you to understand, how you can look at your life, and how you should look at your motives, for the kinds of effects you're going to produce by your actions, individually, and as a layer of the population, with a certain kind of patience, of concentrating on the long-term effects of what you do, as much more important, more significant, than the short-term effects." - Doubling the Cube and the Economy -
Now, how many people have you led through the discovery of how to double the cube? Have you ever asked yourself why those LaRouche Youth always insist on working through the construction of doubling the volume of a cube by construction? Did you know that the Greek mathematician, musician, and politician Archytas, who made the hypothesis that two geometrical means are needed to double the volume of any cube, was a political ally of Plato, and even saved Plato's life? And, what does all this geometry have to do with the economic crisis worldwide?
On Saturday afternoon, we broke up into groups of 15 to 20, and worked through pedagogical exercises, written by Bruce Director, on Archytas's construction of how to find the length of the side of a cube, whose volume will be twice the volume of an original cube.
In the evening, Director was invited to give a class on Riemannian economics. Some people might have expected a discussion on financial particulars of the world monetary system; well, guess again!
How do we expect to learn to revive our once-functioning economy? By changing GDP figures? Micro- or macro-economic tricks? How about increasing interest rates? Well, don't attend Harvard, and accept those answers which many students give us in Boston, as to what economics is. Instead, Bruce went through what kind of growth in intellectual developments would be necessary, for future generations, to create the means to sustain a population of over 6 billions or more. When a culture is oriented toward the development of the mind, in discovering the laws of the universe, not in immediate gratification, this enables the human race to increase our power, and population density, on this planet. We can, then, increase our density of ideas and master the laws of the universe to a greater degree. As for our predecessors, like Leibniz, Hamilton, and others, economy is the increase of productivity of nations in all branches of industry, agriculture and science. - The Magic of Music -
Picking up on the work of the new youth local in Boston, the Sunday morning panel gave some insight into the singing of the Motet "Jesu meine Freude" by J.S. Bach. LaRouche had given the marching orders, at the closing of the Democratic Convention, to create marching choruses in Boston, Detroit, and the Mississippi River basin. Now, for any member of the LYM, that means taking up the challenge of investigating what is this "magic of music" that LaRouche described in his press conference in Boston.
A group of about 20 LYM members had gone back to Boston to continue the work begun during the DNC. There, we practiced choral singing, every morning, for two hours. We took up the challenge of learning the whole motet "Jesu meine Freude" by the end of August. The challenge is, how to master singing, in a beautiful way, and at the same time, train our ears to be able to sing in tune, in the most efficient and scientific way. That is the first step, but how do we go about rediscovering Bach's method, so that, at some time in the near future, we can start composing great music? And how do we make sure that our discoveries are known by as many people as possible?
Michelle Lerner opened the panel by showing the evil of the present culture, referring to the CCF. Megan Beets then asked everyone, "What is Classical culture?" and described the music work going on in Boston. Jenny Kreingold presented the scientific method of singing with polyphonic solfège. Jessica Tremblay presented an experiment that we had hypothesized, which would show that pitch and tuning are not a fixed thing. We recorded two soprano voices singing the first measures of the "Gute Nacht" piece individually, and then pasted them together with an audio program. We then compared that with the two voices singing the lines of music together as in a normal chorus. You can listen to the results on the website. Then a five-voice chorus sang through the choral "Trotz," and Jean-Sébastien Tremblay walked people through the musical development of the piece, by indicating the role of dissonances that lead to harmony. Finally, Mathew Ogden summed up the idea of how to learn to listen to music. At first, all the "sounds" are just sense-perception, but then slowly, as when a baby first starts to go beyond sense perception, these "sounds" become, more and more, musical ideas. We can then discover an ordering principle behind the notes. - The Continuation of Boston -
Sunday afternoon, for the last panel, Helga Zepp LaRouche, together with three members of the European LYM, called in from Germany. She laid out the process that led to her intervention of reviving the famous Leipzig demonstrations. This history is fascinating, because it is so alive. We are shaping these historical events in Germany! And in Dresden they are using the "magic of music," singing "Oh, Freedom" and "Die Gedanken sind Frei" to intervene into a very downtrodden population.
The LaRouche Youth Movement is now challenged to take all these great ideas and intervene on the population of the USA. We have to make sure that Democrats win in November. How is that possible? The best way to achieve that is the growth of the Youth Movement worldwide!
I close with the last part of an answer by LaRouche to a question from a LYM member deployed into Louisville. He described the purpose of the LYM again, and then said: "So, the individual is going to find that fighting for the election result on November is going to be the best university education that was ever offered in the United States for those that participate."
LYM Pulls Back Curtain, To Expose Arnie's Oven
by Sky Jason Shields and Cody Jones
LaRouche Youth Movement
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 17 (EIRNS)The first of five "Das Volk" hearings, set up by Austrian beauty-queen Arnie Schwarzenegger, saw the bloom of a new White Rose. Five members of the LaRouche Youth Movement, determined not to allow California to be the burning forest where from the West winds blow fascism, navigated their way past a few layers of incompetent security, into what was to be an invite-only, controlled hearing, on the Governator's plan to slash the budget, and "streamline" government into a dictatorship.
As reported in the Aug. 9 issue of New Federalist, the California Performance Review (CPR), a 275-member team assembled by "Enron" Arnie, claims it will be able to save California $32 billion over five years, primarily by privatizing certain key services, such as Medi-Cal (a health-care program which serves over 6.7 million low-income Californians)in other words, prescribing more of the same poison which killed us in the first place. Coupled with his proposal to virtually eliminate the checks and balances provided by the State Legislature, by forcing lawmakers into part-time status, this move constitutes a virtual fascist coup in California state government, and a precedent for similar beast-man-type "crisis management" moves nationwide. - An Illegitimate Meeting -
Hence, as things settled in the room, and the first moment of silence settled on the assembled mass, LYM member Sky Shields stepped into the aisle, and in a bel canto-trained voice, projected clearly through the auditorium, announced, "I'd like to make a point to open this meeting: This is an illegitimate meeting, on an illegitimate topic. This is a dictatorial power grab on the part of Arnie, who intends to loot the population and put control of essential social and economic services into the hands of the same private interests that looted California in the first place, with himself (Arnie) as the sole controller of it all. We don't need the CPR to tell us what's wrong with California. We know what's wrong with California: We were looted by the exact same special interests who are sponsoring this review. If this board is really serious about solving California's problems, they'd prosecute Enron and their friends, who Lyndon LaRouche correctly identified as having looted California in the first place."
Sky was interrupted only once by a panel speaker, whom he shushed, and the cops sauntered toward him, biding their time, possibly because the controllers of the steroid-shrivelled beast-man Arnie, have targetted police and fire departments for the same kind of lunatic cuts as they have planned for health care and foster care programs in the state. With the cops gently dragging the organizer out, another LYM member, Trevis Sims, rose to his feet proclaiming, "You know this is an austerity policy! Arnie is trying to form a fascist parliamentary system, with no real deliberation!" Both Sky and Trevis were met with applause and vocal agreement by many in the audience.
Outside, Sky had already begun organizing those still waiting to get in, recruiting to LaRouche's resistanceafter the intervention, the doors had been shut by the "fire marshalls," much to the irritation of the long line of attendeeswhen Trevis was dragged out in handcuffs. Sky then used the scene to polemicize on the nature of the dissent-free one-man "democracy" that the Terminator intends, leading to much agreement and good discussion with otherwise impotent attendees, mostly unionists, and others with ample reason to oppose the cuts; only the LaRouche Youth were willing to represent active, potent leadership against the austerity policies. The police as well were interested in what we had to say, even congratulating us and saying, "I hope you got to say all you needed to." - The Freak-Show Begins -
Back inside, movement member Cody Jones lay in wait for the Hollywood circus freak himself. It was announced that the real freak-show was to begin, and Arnie approached the podium under a banner, eerily reminiscent of Carl Schmitt, "For The People [Das Volk], For A Change" (emblazoned in Terminator-movie-style, across a golden relief of the state of California). As Arnie paused after his initial politico small talk, Cody, now standing alone in the middle of the room, faced the hallowed make-up mannequin, and charged, "Arnold, you are a wanna-be dictator, acting in the image of your mentor Adolf Hitler! Your budget cuts are killing people, this is a fascist austerity policy, as Lyndon LaRouche has pointed out, modelled on what Schacht did in Nazi Germany!"
As the cops dragged Cody out, with Arnie still stunned in silence, Cody broke into a solo of the signature LYM song, "Oh, Freedom."
Those who weren't asked to leave the premises (i.e., Jacqueline Smith-Sharp and Aaron Halevy) continued to get out lit and organize, getting a very good response, though none of the non-LaRouche Movement attendees who entered would take up Jacqueline's suggestion to intervene, demonstrating once again, that good intentions without intelligent leadership, lay the basis for the acceptance of fascism. There was one woman, however, running for State Assembly, who was getting out a leaflet with a picture the LYM had once useda freakishly raisin-rippled Arnie in Speedos and a Nazi saluteand the same Arnie quote we had used during the Recall, where the mad groper stated his open adoration of Adolf Hitler. She told us, earnestly, "I don't think what they're doing in there is legal."
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