Schiller Institute

The Schiller Institute (SI) is a Germany-based political and economic think tank founded by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the widow of Lyndon LaRouche. Its United States chapter is called the LaRouche Organization.

The SI has been influential in global politics, Schiller is also the victim of various hilarious and retarded conspiracy theories by libtards.

In October of 2022, the Schiller Institute hosted an event called Build the New Paradigm, Defeat Green Fascism, in which Haz Al-Din, Sameera Khan, and Jackson Hinkle participated.

Relationship to Infrared

Generally speaking, Infrared is on good terms with the Schiller institute, despite severe ideological and theoretical disageements.

Members of the Schiller institute have thus far conducted themselves in a cordial and professional way, and Haz Al-Din is appreciative that they generously invited him to one of their conferences to speak.

While Infrared and Schiller agree on a number of issues, by no means are the two organizations aligned philosophically or ideologically. The Schiller Institute subscribes to a synthesis of the ideas of Lyndon LaRouche, whereas Infrared promotes the study of Marxism-Leninism.

Accusation of Infrared being a front of Schiller

A retarded theory has emerged among mentally ill libtards, which holds that because Haz Al-Din spoke at one of their conferences, Infrared is somehow a LaRouche conspiracy.

The origin of this view lies in a few superficial similarities. Like the LaRouche movement, Infrared mounts a devastating critique of the New Left, with its focus on cultural politics and its abandonment of the industrial working class. Like LaRouche himself, Infrared subscribes to the basic contemporary Marxist-Leninist view (which is official policy in the People's Republic of China) that economic wealth lies in the physical productive forces, rather than speculative or fictitious capital.

In the main, the conspiracy theory — like Russiagate — is an irrational form of paranoid schizophrenia and mental illness, which is already quite pervasive on the American left. Proponents of this theory cannot forward an actual argument for why they think Infrared is a LaRouchite conspiracy, beyond the fact that Haz Al-Din appeared at a Schiller Institute conference one time.

What is most probably the biggest source of suspicion for this theory is the fact that Schiller Institute members, on account of their basic professionalism (having diplomatic ties to various BRICS governments, including Russia and China), do not emphasize differences. They, in contrast to Caleb Maupin, have never attacked Infrared publicly nor made a fuss about their disagreements.

They prefer to focus on the areas of agreement, especially on matters pertaining to foreign policy. Toward that end, Infrared appreciates their professional outlook, and also returns the favor by not making a strong point of emphasis on the very real and significant underlying ideological differences.

Differences between Infrared and Schiller

In terms of the underlying philosophical and cultural outlook, political strategy, and basic ideological orientation, Infrared is fundamentally different from the LaRouche movement.

In spite of the broad critique of the New Left, Infrared does not take a one-sided view in broadly condemning this historical event. It relates the emergence of the New Left to the rise of the information age, precipitating the Fourth Industrial Revolution. As such, there is a great deal to learn, according to Infrared, from the New Left — especially organizations like the Black Panthers.

Rather than avoid the cultural turn all-together in favor of immediately returning back to the working class, Infrared views cultural mediation as an irreversible inevitability, and as such, draws heavily from Gramsci and his notion of the 'relative autonomy of the superstructure with regard to the base.'

Additionally, one of the main theoretical focuses of Infrared is the question of the origin and essence of state power, civilization-states, and polarity. On these questions, there is a sharp divergence between Infrared and Schiller.

Infrared promotes the study of the meaning of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat in the contemporary age. LaRouche, for his part, was hostile to such a notion.

Infrared promotes a return to Hegelian thinking, whereas Schiller rejects the whole of German Idealism in favor of Leibniz.

There are various divergences also in the fundamental grasp of history between Infrared and Schiller, with Infrared pioneering a theory of 'Mongol modernity' and the newfound significance of the 'Asiatic Mode of Production' — whereas LaRouche broadly held such civilizations in disdain.

Press Conferences

• Press conference: “A Nuclear War Cannot be Won and Must Never Be Fought”