This is something on Economy and Africa, by Lyndon LaRouche, in reaction to a book by Nigerian auther Peter Alexander Egom.
In honor of Peter Alexander Egom
ECONOMY & AFRICA
By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
January 29, 2014
In 2006, I had received an announcement of a book, which had been
sent to me, with a hand-written message superimposed, by, apparently,
the author, or on his account, titled:
Compass for Economic Reform
(2006). Since the author has been, (had been, hopefully, still an
African scholar today) whose published book represents an appeal to the
needs of the African continent (i.e., Nigeria), I think it appropriate
to turn, finally, to a publication of his, even, now, a decade later.
Africa deserves all the relevant sort of assistance which might be
useful to its inherent mission for the future. My attention to that book
then, has now been focused on particularly, a small part of his
concluding remarks.
I do not share, by any means, a view common to his references taken from the
British imperial, monetarist school,
of, such British authors as David Hume, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and
Karl Marx (authors with whose work I had been already familiar, seven
decades ago). That issue of differences continued, on that account, has
not diminished, since that time, for me, in the least: the worth of my
proffering contrary recommendations, would be a better source of aid in
the rescue of African nations from the toils left over since the
predatory, Seventeenth-century Dutch imperialist school, and, its
outgrowth, in the nominally British, imperial empire of today.
This has a history (and, the only history which could be known as the
truth to be sought in, and from human experience). I continue that
consideration, briefly, now, on essential background, here, to begin, as
follows:
Man, unlike mere animals, is an actually, the only, wittingly
creative species: the only one which is a consciously creative one
presently known to us. The human species, is the only such species known
to us presently. Only the human species’ member is given the potential
means to foresee the future, and, in this way:
to make discoveries
of those universal principles, the which continue to be expressed after
the mortal existence of the person is enabled to continue, in principle,
for the benefit of society, even long after that person is deceased.
