LPACTV: 1620 is an educational video essay by LaRouchePAC on YouTube.[1]
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As the Venetian Empire retaliated against the political and cultural advancements resulting from the great Classical Renaissance, plunging Europe into chaos and war, waves of courageous settlers launched expeditions from the shores of war-tormented Europe, inspired by Christopher Columbus' evangelical missions of discovery, to plant new seeds for civilization in the New World. These settlers were no refugees, but theirs were the efforts of pioneers dedicated to enshrine the best of the cultural achievements of modern European civilization at a relative distance from the system of oligarchical reigns and warfare dominating their homelands.
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- Retaliation against the imperial core in Venice
- League of Cambrai sought to rid Europe of
- 1582 New Party - Young Venice led by Paolo Sarpi
- Sarpi moved the center of Empire to Amsterdam, which would become the "Venice of the North"
- Founded the Venice Company in London
- Venice consolidated power in London via agents in James The First's Cabinet, such as Thomas Hobbes, Francis Bacon, and Robert Cecil (Secretary of State) in 1603.
- Humanist Republicans who opposed empire in England were being politically repressed, so they fled to the Netherlands
- "An Admonition to Parliament" and "The People's Plea" were among the works this group published and secretly smuggled into England
- "On Faith, Hope, and Love: Reason and Sense" pamphlet
- John Robinson quote
- Renaissance humanism versus Sarpi's "liberalism of slavery and usury"
- King James retaliation against these renaissance defenders, he got the Dutch government to ban all unlicensed publishers
- John Robinson's fellow partners in publishing were William Brewster and Thomas Brewer
- The hidden press was finally discovered and seized by authorities
- William Brewster fled England on the Mayflower
- Formation of a body politic in true Republican fashion
- Venice ignited religious strife in Europe
- Years later, inspired by these thinkers, Benjamin Franklin who sought to build the first true Republic in direct contrast to the European empires
The video does not continue further, but more is said by the LaRouche people about how America's Republic has been slowly turned into an Empire from within, for which the LaRouche people typically blame the British; the City of London, etc.