LaRouche's Fifty-Year Fight for a New Economic Paradigm.

The article focuses on the five-decade intellectual and political leadership of Lyndon LaRouche in advocating for a new, just world economic order aimed at ending imperial monetarism and fostering global development through sovereign cooperation. Beginning in the 1970s, LaRouche proposed the creation of an International Development Bank (IDB) to replace the IMF system, a concept endorsed by the Non-Aligned Movement and leaders such as Indira Gandhi and José López Portillo. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, LaRouche expanded this vision with initiatives like the "Productive Triangle" and the "Eurasian Land-Bridge," promoting infrastructure-driven development and international credit systems based on national sovereignty and scientific progress. His ideas influenced and paralleled global developments, including the BRICS nations' efforts to establish alternative financial institutions and China's Belt and Road Initiative, which have become central to the emerging new global economic architecture. The article also details ongoing efforts by the LaRouche movement and affiliated organizations to promote these principles through conferences, policy proposals, and international collaborations into the 2020s, emphasizing the necessity of a new Bretton Woods–style system, debt restructuring, and large-scale infrastructure projects as foundations for lasting peace and development.