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.1
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.
