Schiller Institute

The Schiller Institute is an international political and economic thinktank and is one of the primary institutions in the Lyndon LaRouche movement, with headquarters in both Germany and the United States. It was founded at a conference in Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1984 by Helga Zepp LaRouche, Lyndon's German-born wife. Following the second conference, in Washington, D.C. in 1985, it has held conferences in a variety of international locations. Since 1992, it has published a quarterly magazine Fidelio, which it describes as a "Journal of Poetry, Science, and Statecraft."

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Thinktank - Lyndon LaRouche - Germany - United States - Wiesbaden - 1984 - Helga Zepp LaRouche - Washington, D.C. - 1985

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The Institute's published aim is to seek to apply the ideas of poet, dramatist and philosopher Friedrich Schiller to what it calls the "contemporary world crisis," emphasizing Schiller's concept of the interdependence of classical artistic beauty and republican political freedom, as elaborated in his series of essays entitled Letters on the Aesthetical Education of Man. On November 26, 1984, the Institute released a "Declaration of the Inalienable Rights of Man"http://www.schillerinstitute.org/about/inalienablerights.html which is described as "the basis of the Institute's work and efforts worldwide." It is modeled on the United States Declaration of Independence, but extends it to include all nations, especially those of the Third World. It further asserts "...hat all human beings on this planet have inalienable rights, which guarantee them life, freedom, material conditions worthy of man, and the right to develop fully all potentialities of their intellect and their souls. That, therefore, a change in the present economic and monetary order is necessary and urgent to establish justice among the peoples of the world."

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Friedrich Schiller - Classical - Republican - 1984 - United States Declaration of Independence - Third World

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Its critics, such as the Washington Post, charge that the Schiller Institute, like other groups in the Lyndon LaRouche movement, is a political cult. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/larouche/main.htm

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Founder Helga Zepp LaRouche explained the need for the Schiller Institute:

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:"We need a movement that can finally free Germany from the control of the Versailles and Yalta treaties, which have already tossed us from one catastrophe to another for a whole century." ("Wir brauchen eine Bewegung, die Deutschland endlich aus der Kontrolle der Kräfte von Versailles und Jalta befreit, die uns schon ein ganzes Jahrhundert lang von einer Kastastrophe in die andere stürzt.") http://lexikon.idgr.de/b/b_u/buergerrechtsbewegung-solidaritaet/bueso.php

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