Saturday Class – The Fight for National Sovereignty Against The Modern-Day Tower of Babel – March 21, 2026

Every week, Promethean Action holds a Saturday Class—a deep dive into the ideas, history, and strategic thinking that the mainstream won’t touch.We’d love for you to join us live. Sign up here and we’ll send you class details every week.The European Union is a modern Tower of Babel — and President Trump is calling it out.For centuries, empires have worked to prevent the emergence of truly sovereign nations. The EU is no exception. It has no constitution, no elected executive, and its member states have surrendered control over their currencies, courts, and foreign policy to unelected bureaucrats in Brussels and Strasbourg.The Trump administration’s National Security Strategy calls it what it is: a system of civilizational erasure.In this week’s class, Will Wertz — author of Beware, The British East India Company — traces the millennia-long battle between the American system of national sovereignty and the imperial system of empire. From Plato vs. Aristotle, through the devastation of the 14th-century Dark Age, to Nicholas of Cusa’s revolutionary ideas on government by consent of the governed, Wertz shows how the concept of the sovereign nation state was forged — and why the European Union represents its antithesis.Two systems, two futuresWertz opens with Henry C. Carey, Abraham Lincoln’s economic advisor, who drew the sharpest possible contrast between the two systems: one “looks to pauperism, ignorance, depopulation and barbarism” — the English system. The other “looks to increasing wealth, comfort, intelligence, combination of action and civilization” — the American system.The imperial model — from the Roman Empire to the Venetian oligarchy to the British East India Company — has always suppressed human creativity to maintain control. The American model, rooted in the U.S. Constitution’s “We the People,” demands a society organized around the development of the productive powers of the human mind.Nicholas of Cusa: the philosopher who made it possibleThe class centers on Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464), who Wertz identifies as the thinker most responsible for the concepts underlying both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. In 1433, Cusa demolished the fraudulent “Donation of Constantine” that had justified supranational papal authority — the first step toward genuine sovereignty. He then articulated the principle that “all authority arises from elective concordance and free submission” and that “there is in the people a divine seed by virtue of their common equal birth and their equal natural rights.”Sound familiar? The Declaration of Independence, written more than three centuries later, draws directly from these ideas. Cusa also founded modern science by refuting the fixed Ptolemaic system, laid the groundwork for Kepler’s elliptical orbits, and helped set in motion Columbus’s rediscovery of the Western Hemisphere.The EU: empire by another nameWertz documents how the European Union systematically stripped its member states of sovereignty. The Maastricht Treaty (1992) forced nations to abandon their currencies, submit to unelected EU commissioners, and accept a European Court of Justice supreme over their own constitutions. Britain, characteristically, kept the pound while imposing the euro on everyone else — then left through Brexit after the damage was done.The results speak for themselves: Europe’s share of global GDP has fallen from 25% to 14%. Birth rates have cratered below 1.4 per woman. Energy production has been gutted by climate ideology. And the EU actively intervenes in member state elections, from Romania to Hungary, to silence opposition. BEWARE The British East India Company!: Toward an Alliance Between the USA, Russia, China, and India to Finally Defeat the British Empire by William WertzThis book presents a comprehensive history of the existential war waged between the Anglo-Dutch imperial system and what became known as the American System of political economy ever since the creation of the predatory British and Dutch East India Companies. On that basis, the book presents a counterintuitive solution to the crisis confronting humanity today, arguing that only a combination of the Four Powers, the USA, Russia, China and India, has the power to finally dismantle the Anglo-Dutch imperial system as it emerged from the British and Dutch East India Companies. GET IT ON KINDLE AND AMAZON The solution: a new Bretton WoodsWertz concludes with Lyndon LaRouche’s call for a new Bretton Woods system — initiated by the United States, Russia, China, and India — to replace the Anglo-Dutch imperial financial order with a system of genuinely sovereign nation states committed to national banking, protective tariffs, and the development of the productive powers of their citizens. This, Wertz argues, would allow European nations to join as sovereign states rather than remaining subjects of a supranational construct designed to control them.”The universe is anti-entropic. Man is the instrument through which the universe can be further developed, in harmony with the logos. That is what it means to say that a nation state is sovereign — subject to natural law.”Watch the class and discover why the fight for national sovereignty has never been more urgent.—Promethean Action Editorial StaffPS: Alexander Hamilton design now available. Our America 250 Founding Fathers Collection is live with George Washington, Ben Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton tees and mugs. Authors Worked with LaRouche’s political movement since 1971. Translated works of Schiller and Cusa into English. Former editor of Fidelio magazine. Author of “Beware the British East India Company!” View articles Founding member of the LaRouche movement in the 1960s. Former editor of LaRouche’s writings and EIR magazine. Regular host of our Saturday class series. View articles