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JEWISH GOVERNMENT Below is the famed manuscript that 'they' don't want you to
read. For a refutation of the false claims that the book is a forgery,
see: Book review;
Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
THE
PROTOCOLS
OF THE
LEARNED ELDERS
OF ZION
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(Translated by Victor E. Marsden)
The author of this translation of the famous Protocols was himself a
victim of the Revolution. He had lived for many years in Russia and was married
to a Russian lady. Among his other activities in Russia he had been for a number
of years a Russian Correspondent of the MORNING POST, a position which he
occupied when the Revolution broke out, and his vivid descriptions of events in
Russia will still be in the recollection of many of the readers of that Journal.
Naturally he was singled out for the anger of the Soviet. On the day that
Captain Cromie was murdered by Jews, Victor Marsden was arrested and thrown into
the Peter-Paul Prison, expecting every day to have his name called out for
execution. This, however, he escaped, and eventually he was allowed to return to
England very much of a wreck in bodily health. However, he recovered under
treatment and the devoted care of his wife and friends. One of the first things
he undertook, as soon as he was able, was this translation of the Protocols.
Mr. Marsden was eminently well qualified for the work. His intimate acquaintance
with Russia, Russian life and the Russian language on the one hand, and his
mastery of a terse literary English style on the other, placed him in a position
of advantage which few others could claim. The consequence is that we have in
his version an eminently readable work, and though the subject-matter is
somewhat formless, Mr. Marsden's literary touch reveals the thread running
through the twenty-four Protocols.
It may be said with truth that this work was carried out at the cost of Mr.
Marsden's own life's blood. He told the writer of this Preface that he
could not stand more than an hour at a time of his work on it in the British
Museum, as the diabolical spirit of the matter which he was obliged to turn into
English made him positively ill.
Mr. Marsden's connection with the MORNING POST was not severed by his return
to England, and he was well enough to accept the post of special correspondent
of that journal in the suite of H.R.H., the Prince of Wales on his Empire tour.
From this he returned with the Prince, apparently in much better health, but
within a few days of his landing he was taken suddenly ill, and died after a
very brief illness.
May this work be his crowning monument! In it he has performed an immense
service to the English-speaking world, and there can be little doubt that it
will take its place in the first rank of the English versions of "THE
PROTOCOLS of the Meetings of the LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION."
Of the Protocols themselves little need be said in the way of
introduction. The book in which they are embodied was first published in the
year 1897 by Philip Stepanov for private circulation among his intimate friends.
The first time Nilus published them was in 1901 in a book called The
Great Within the Small and reprinted in 1905. A copy of this is in the
British Museum bearing the date of its reception, August 10, 1906. All copies
that were known to exist in Russia were destroyed in the Kerensky regime, and
under his successors the possession of a copy by anyone in Soviet land was a
crime sufficient to ensure the owner's of being shot on sight. The fact is in
itself sufficient proof of the genuineness of the Protocols. The Jewish
journals, of course, say that they are a forgery, leaving it to be understood
that Professor Nilus, who embodied them in a work of his own, had concocted them
for his own purposes.
Mr. Henry Ford, in an interview published in the New York WORLD, February
17th, 1921, put the case for Nilus tersely and convincingly thus:
"The only statement I care to make about the PROTOCOLS is that they
fit in with what is going on. They are sixteen years old, and they have fitted
the world situation up to this time. THEY FIT IT NOW."
Indeed they do!
The word "Protocol" signifies a precis gummed on to the
front of a document, a draft of a document, minutes of proceedings. In this
instance, "Protocol" means minutes of the proceedings of the
Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion. These Protocols give the
substance of addresses delivered to the innermost circle of the Rulers of Zion.
They reveal the converted plan of action of the Jewish Nation developed through
the ages and edited by the Elders themselves up to date. Parts and summaries of
the plan have been published from time to time during the centuries as the
secrets of the Elders have leaked out. The claim of the Jews that the Protocols
are forgeries is in itself an admission of their genuineness, for they NEVER
ATTEMPT TO ANSWER THE FACTS corresponding to the THREATS which the Protocols
contain, and, indeed, the correspondence between prophecy and fulfillment is too
glaring to be set aside or obscured. This the Jews well know and therefore
evade.
In the 1905 edition of The Jewish Encyclopedia (Volume X, p. 252,
edited by Isidore Singer), under the heading "Magan Dawid" (Star of
David), we read that: "A pentacle in this form (i.e. inverted), is found on
the ancient synagogue at Tell Hum. Charles IV prescribed for the Jews of Prague,
in 1354, a red flag with both David's shield and Solomon's seal, while the red
flag with which the Jews met King Matthias of Hungary in the fifteenth century
showed two pentacles with two golden stars (Schuandtner, Scriptores Rerum
Hungaricarun; ii 148). The pentacle, therefore, may also have been used
among the Jews. It occurs in a manuscript as early as the year 1073. . ."
This upside down five-pointed star is well known to all occultists as their
symbol of Satan. And the red flag, signifying Edom, was well known to the
millions of Christians who were slaughtered by the Jewish Bolsheviks of our
present century. The David spoken of here does NOT refer to King David of
Ancient Israel, or to Messiah, the coming Son of David, but to the twelth
century Khazar pseudo Messiah, Menahem ben Duji, who changed his name to David
al-Roy, and was assassinated on his way to "liberate" Palestine.
If David al-Roy is the King of the Jews, King of Israel and King David
mentioned in the Protocols, it is a further mark of their antiquity.
Captain A.H.M. Ramsay records in his classic, The
Nameless War: "According to a letter published in "Plain
English" (a weekly review published by the North British Publishing
Co. and edited by the late Lord Alfred Douglas) on 3rd September, 1921:-
"The Learned Elders have been in existence for a much longer period than
they have perhaps suspected. My friend, Mr. L. D. van Valckert, of Amsterdam,
has recently sent me a letter containing two extracts from the Synagogue at
Mulheim. The volume in which they are contained was lost at some period during
the Napoleonic Wars, and has recently come into Mr. van Valckert's possession.
It is written in German, and contains extracts of letters sent and received by
the authorities of the Mulheim Synagogue. The first entry he sends me is of a
letter received:-
16th June, 1647.
From O.C. (i.e. Oliver Cromwell), by Ebenezer Pratt.
"In return for financial support will advocate admission of Jews to
England: This however impossible while Charles living.
Charles cannot be executed without trial, adequate grounds for which do
not at present exist. Therefore advise that Charles be assassinated, but will
have nothing to do with arrangements for procuring an assassin, though willing
to help in his escape."
In reply was dispatched the following:-
12th July, 1647.
To O.C. by E. Pratt.
"Will grant financial aid as soon as Charles removed and Jews
admitted. Assassination too dangerous. Charles shall be given opportunity to
escape: His recapture will make trial and execution possible. The support will
be liberal, but useless to discuss terms until trial commences."
Captain Ramsay quotes Isaac Disraeli, father of Benjamin, Earl of
Beaconsfield, Britain's first Jewish Prime Minister, in his two volume "Life
of Charles I", published in 1851: "The English Revolution
under Charles I was unlike any preceding one . . . From that time and event we
contemplate in our history the phases of revolution." There were many
more to follow on similar lines, notably in France. In 1897 a further important
clue to these mysterious happenings fell into Gentile hands in the shape of the Protocols
of the Elders of Zion.
In that document we read this remarkable sentence: "Remember the
French Revolution, the secrets of its preparation are well known to us for it
was entirely the work of our hands."" (See Protocol No. III,
XIV).
The presumption is strong that the Protocols were issued, or reissued,
at the First Zionist Congress held at Basle in 1897 under the presidency of the
Father of Modern Zionism, the late Theodore Herzl.
There has been recently published a volume of Herzl's "Diaries," a
translation of some passages which appeared in the JEWISH CHRONICLE of July 14,
1922. Herzl gives an account of his first visit to England in 1895, and his
conversation with Colonel Goldsmid, a Jew brought up as a Christian, an officer
in the English Army, and at heart a Jew Nationalist all the time. Goldsmid
suggested to Herzl that the best way of expropriating the English aristocracy,
and so destroying their power to protect the people of England against Jew
domination, was to put excessive taxes on the land. Herzl thought this an
excellent idea, and it is now to be found definitely embodied in Protocol VI!
The above extract from Herzl's DIARY is an extremely significant bit of
evidence bearing on the existence of the Jew World Plot and authenticity of the Protocols,
but any reader of intelligence will be able from his own knowledge of recent
history and from his own experience to confirm the genuineness of every line of
them, and it is in the light of this LIVING comment that all readers are invited
to study Mr. Marsden's translation of this terribly inhuman document.
Here is what Dr. Ehrenpreis, Chief Rabbi of Sweden, said in 1924, concerning
the Protocols: "Long have I been well acquainted with the contents
of the Protocols, indeed for many years before they were ever published
in the Christian press. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion were in point of
fact not the original Protocols at all, but a compressed extract of the same. Of
the 70 Elders of Zion, in the matter of origin and of the existence of the
original Protocols, there are only ten men in the entire world who
know.
I participated with Dr. Herzl in the first Zionist Congress which was held in
Basle in 1897. Herzl was the most prominent figure at the Jewish World Congress.
Herzl foresaw, twenty years before we experienced them, the revolution which
brought the Great War, and he prepared us for that which was to happen. He
foresaw the splitting up of Turkey, that England would obtain control of
Palestine. We may expect important developments in the world."
And here is another very significant circumstance.The present successor of
Herzl, as leader of the Zionist movement, Dr. Weizmann, quoted one of these
sayings at the send-off banquet given to Chief Rabbi Hertz on October 6, 1920.
The Chief Rabbi was on the point of leaving for HIS Empire tour of H.R.H., the
Prince of Wales. And this is the "saying" of the Sages which Dr.
Weizmann quoted: "A beneficent protection which God has instituted in
the life of the Jew is that He has dispersed him all over the world."
(JEWISH GUARDIAN, Oct. 8, 1920.)
Now compare this with the last clause of but one of Protocol XI.
"God has granted to us, His Chosen People, the gift of dispersion, and
from this, which appears to all eyes to be our weakness, has come forth all
our strength, which has now brought us to the threshold of sovereignty over
all the world."
The remarkable correspondence between these passages proves several things.
It proves that the Learned Elders exist. It proves that Dr. Weizmann knows all
about them. It proves that the desire for a "National Home" in
Palestine is only camouflage and an infinitesimal part of the Jew's real object.
It proves that the Jews of the world have no intention of settling in Palestine
or any separate country, and that their annual prayer that they may all meet "Next
Year in Jerusalem" is merely a piece of their characteristic
make-believe. It also demonstrates that the Jews are now a world menace, and
that the Aryan races will have to domicile them permanently out of Europe..
This is a secret which has not been revealed. They are the Hidden hand. They
are not the "Board of Deputies" (the Jewish Parliament in
England) or the "Universal Israelite Alliance" which sits in
Paris. But the late Walter Rathenau of the Allgemeiner Electricitaets
Gesellschaft has thrown a little light on the subject and doubtless he was in
possession of their names, being, in all likelihood, one of the chief leaders
himself. Writing in the WIENER FREIE PRESSE, December 24, 1912, he said:
"Three hundred men, each of whom knows all the others, govern the fate
of the European continent, and they elect their successors from their
entourage."
In the year 1844, on the eve of the Jewish Revolution of 1848, Benjamin
Disraeli, whose real name was Israel, and who was a "damped,"
or baptized Jew, published his novel, CONINGSBY, in which occurs this ominous
passage:
"The world is governed by very different personages from what is
imagined by those who are not behind the scenes."
And he went on to show that these personages were all Jews.
Now that Providence has brought to the light of day these secret Protocols
all men may clearly see the hidden personages specified by Disraeli at work
"behind the scenes" of all the Governments. This revelation entails on
all white peoples the grave responsibility of examining and revising AU FOND
their attitude towards the Race and Nation which boasts of its survival over all
Empires.
There are two words in this translation which are unusual, the word "AGENTUR"
and "political" used as a substantive, AGENTUR appears to be a word
adopted from the original and it means the whole body of agents and agencies
made use of by the Elders, whether members of the tribe or their Gentile tools.
By "the Political" Mr. Marsden means, not exactly the "body
politic" but the entire machinery of politics.
Protocol III opens with a reference to the Symbolic Snake of Judaism.
In his Epilogue to the 1905 Edition of the Protocols, Nilus gives the following
interesting account of this symbol:
"According to the records of secret Jewish Zionism, Solomon and other
Jewish learned men already, in 929 B.C., thought out a scheme in theory for a
peaceful conquest of the whole universe by Zion. As history developed, this
scheme was worked out in detail and completed by men who were subsequently
initiated in this question. These learned men decided by peaceful means to
conquer the world for Zion with the slyness of the Symbolic Snake, whose head
was to represent those who have been initiated into the plans of the Jewish
administration, and the body of the Snake to represent the Jewish people -- the
administration was always kept secret, EVEN FROM THE JEWISH NATION ITSELF. As
this Snake penetrated into the hearts of the nations which it encountered it
undermined and devoured all the non-Jewish power of these States. It is foretold
that the Snake has still to finish its work, strictly adhering to the designed
plan, until the course which it has to run is closed by the return of its head
to Zion and until, by this means, the Snake has completed its round of Europe
and has encircled it -- and until, by dint of enchaining Europe, it has
encompassed the whole world. This it is to accomplish by using every endeavor to
subdue the other countries by an ECONOMICAL CONQUEST. The return of the head of
the Snake to Zion can only be accomplished after the power of all the Sovereign
of Europe has been laid low, that is to say, when by means of economic crises
and wholesale destruction effected everywhere, there shall have been brought
about a spiritual demoralization and a moral corruption, chiefly with the
assistance of Jewish women masquerading as French, Italians, etc.. These are the
surest spreaders of licentiousness into the lives of the leading men at the
heads of nations. A map of the course of the Symbolic Snake is shown as follows:
-- Its first stage in Europe was in 429 B.C. in Greece, where, about the time of
Pericles, the Snake first started eating into the power of that country. The
second stage was in Rome in the time of Augustus, about 69 B.C.. The third in
Madrid in the time of Charles V, in A.D. 1552. The fourth in Paris about 1790,
in the time of Louis XVI. The fifth in London from 1814 onwards (after the
downfall of Napoleon). The sixth in Berlin in 1871 after the Franco-Prussian
war. The seventh in St. Petersburg, over which is drawn the head of the Snake
under the date of 1881. [This "Snake" is now being drawn through the
Americas and in the United States of America, it is been partially identified as
the "Counsel on Foreign Relations" (C.F.R.) and the "Tri-Lateral
Commission"]. All these States which the Snake traversed have had the
foundations of their constitutions shaken, Germany, with its apparent power,
forming no exception to the rule. In economic conditions, England and Germany
are spared, but only till the conquest of Russia is accomplished by the Snake,
on which at present [i.e., 1905] all its efforts are concentrated. The further
course of the Snake is not shown on this map, but arrows indicate its next
movement towards Moscow, Kieft and Odessa. It is now well known to us to what
extent the latter cities form the centuries of the militant Jewish race.
Constantinople is shown as the last stage of the Snake's course before it
reaches Jerusalem. (This map was drawn years before the occurrence of the
"Young Turk" -- i.e., Jewish -- Revolution in Turkey.)
Notes III. - The term "Goyim," meaning Gentile
or non-Jews, is used throughout the Protocols and is retained by
Mr. Marsden.
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"THE PROTOCOLS"
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THE
PROTOCOLS OF ZION
When an international mass circulation magazine like The Reader's Digest
decides to run an article on the documents generally known as The Protocols, in
which Eric Butler and The League of Rights are critically mentioned, there must
be a purpose. About the same time as The Reader's Digest article, which
basically regurgitates the view that these documents are either a forgery or a
fabrication, the Oxford University Press released a publication, The Right Road,
by Dr. Andrew Moore, senior lecturer in Australian history at the University of
Western Sydney.
Moore's work is subtitled "A History of Right-Wing Politics in
Australia", but its clear purpose is to suggest that it is "The
Australian League of Rights" which is the main threat to what is termed
"liberal democracy". Eric Butler receives special attention, it being
claimed that he exercises considerable international influence. Blatant
misrepresentations of the Social Credit movement and historical events are
masked by what purports to be a carefully documented academic study.
We will not at this time attempt to analyze either The Reader's Digest
article on The Protocols or Moore's work, The Right Road. But by coincidence we
have recently received an article from a Canadian, Peter L. Lorden of Calgary,
who offers some comments on The Protocols, which are appropriate:
It has been generally asserted for many years past that a document called The
Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion is a forgery. Supposedly a report of
speeches given at the 1897 First Zionist Congress in Basle, it pictures an
international Jewish conspiracy to undermine Christian institutions and pave the
way for world domination. Gerald Krefetz remarked in his 1982 Jews and Money;
the Myths and the Reality that the Protocols -- "apparently the plagiarized
concoction of a Russian religious mystic"- had long since been discredited
as propaganda promoted by the Czarist secret police to justify their own
anti-Semitism.
Yet if so long discredited, why have they become what he calls the most
successful piece of propaganda in the twentieth century? "For a spurious
document", says Krefetz, "it has had a remarkably long and influential
life." Could this be due simply to continuing anti-Semitism? Indeed, it is
hard to see how this document could have been a genuine record of speeches at
the Congress. Would people clever enough to engineer such a global conspiracy as
the Protocols reflect have been dumb enough to let an outsider take notes of
their proceedings, let alone live to publish them? And is such a plot any more
credible now than it was then? The recent decline of some big Jewish houses,
coupled with the emergence of wealthy Asian conglomerates, seems rather to spoil
the picture for those inclined to fantasize about an unstoppable international
conspiracy guided only by Jewish financiers! But of course there has been an
even more recent decline of all Asian conglomerates.
A book which became a best seller in 1972---None Dare Call It Conspiracy, by
Gary Allen shows in some detail how they had simultaneously financed both the
Soviet Union (page 71) and the Third Reich (page 85), like people fattening
birds for a cock-fight. The book is quite even-handed. While it indicts such
Jewish luminaries as Rothschild, Warburg and Schiff's Kuhn Loeb and Company, it
also assigns prominent roles to many Gentile houses, including Rockefeller's.
(But, of course he too is a Jew).
David Rockefeller seems to have had a finger in everything. Many famous names
in politics, Nixon and Kissinger, were alumni of his system, whose imperial
reach was by NO means confined to the United States. (Apparently the surest way
to wealth and power is on the coat-tails of a man who already has these things
and will "look after" you so long as you do his bidding. Kruschev's
downfall seems to have come about when he stopped doing it). Chase Manhattan
Bank was formed by merging Warburg and Rockefeller units. How closely Jewish and
Gentile "insiders" worked together is shown throughout the book. For
instance, a roster of blue-chip American corporations, along with prominent
politicians of both parties, joined the "insiders" in the immensely
influential Council for Foreign Relations (page 88).
Allen's book makes a compelling case for the existence of a conspiracy -- or
at least a close working relationship between financiers of international clout.
And an even greater centralization of money-power in the Western world has
occurred since 1972. But isn't that inevitable given the current globalization?
As to his thesis that the ultimate aim of the "insiders" was to create
a totalitarian World Government in which they would control everything as a
spider sitting in the center controls his web, we should note that co-operation
between international financiers today -- whatever it may have been in the past
-- is not necessarily of evil intent. And that a great many other people have
long since come to see some kind of world government as a necessary goal. The
next big war may be about who gets to control it!)
A SPURIOUS DOCUMENT?
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What light does Allen's book, throw on the Protocols? A negative one, it
would seem, in as much as he shows Gentile interests to have as much clout as
the Jewish. Yet the Protocols are not to be dismissed so easily. For if they are
false un one sense, a reader cannot help feeling that they are genuine in
another! What makes them seem genuine is that they are not at all what one would
expect from "a Russian religious mystic". They show too deep an
understanding both of Gentile weaknesses familiar to us all and of the sort of
mind set which might ruthlessly exploit them for sectarian gain. Fictional or
not, they were written by somebody who knew very well the kind of men whose
utterances they supposedly report. They express a wealth of hard-headed insight
in a tone of arrogant superiority which is not unfamiliar to us either. We
cannot quarrel with the comment of Henry Ford's Dearborn Independent -- which
publicized the Protocols in America around 1921 -- that the work was "too
terribly real for fiction, too well-sustained for speculation, too deep in its
knowledge of the secret springs of life for forgery".
Then who did write the Protocols? We may never know that, but it seems
improbable that either a mystic or a bigoted Russian policeman could have come
up with an analysis so penetrating, and so unfailingly prophetic.
"Spurious" the document may be, historically speaking. But as anyone
familiar with current events will instantly recognize, many passages in it show
a remarkable prescience.
That a document first published in 1905 should have predicted the collapse of
European monarchies, the Bolshevik Revolution and World Wars yielding little
change in territory but a big one on the map of international finance is
surprising enough. That it should also have anticipated a Great Depression
caused by the arbitrary cutting-off of credit, the resurgence of Israel, the
current squeeze on countries with large external debt -- and even hinted at
today's explosion in "derivatives:" trading----has to impress any
thoughtful reader. ("That's some "mystic"! Or he might echo the
comment made in 1921 by Ford himself: "The only statement I have to make
about the Protocols is that they fit into what has gone on in the world
situation these sixteen years,. They fit it now.)
The Protocols originated as I understand, with the Prieure de Sion, and
accurately reflect the plans of Meyer Amschel Rothschild, Adam Weishaupt, Albert
Pike, Mazzini, etc.
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Since discourse in the Protocols is often disjointed, we have taken the
liberty of grouping quotations (from Victor Marsden's 1934 edition) in what
seems a logical order of subject. We have also tried to minimize the more
offensive ones. Contemptuous references to goyim (the unfortunate Talmudic term
for Gentiles, meaning cattle) are scattered throughout the work, as indeed one
might expect if the author were a propagandist determined to present a malign
image of Jewry. One might have preferred to omit such racism altogether, along
with utterances more interesting to students of religious pathology than to the
general reader. But the purported speaker's ultimate aim to see "the
King-Despot of Zion as Patriarch of the World, is so central to the work that
excluding it would give a wholly false impression. For those who ignore that
side (as one can easily do by substituting Untermenschen for goyim and some
other ideology for the Mosaic), the fascination of the document lies in its
Machiavellian practicality, (its being virtually a manual for would-be dictators
is probably why Adolf Hitler knew it so well.)
The document opens with a flat statement that all "rights" other
than that of "might" are vacuous, that "freedom" is an empty
word, and absolute despotism the only sensible form of government.
ON POLITICS
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"The political has nothing in common with the moral . . . Our right lies
in force . . . Violence must be the principle and a cunning make-believe the
rule if we are to bring all governments into subjection to our super
government."
"The French Revolution was wholly the work of our hands. . . We were the
first to cry among the masses the words Liberty, Equality, Fraternity', since
many times repeated by stupid poll-parrots. This helped us to destroy the
natural aristocracy of the goyim, on whose ruins we have set up the aristocracy
of our educated class headed by the aristocracy of money. . . Our subordinate
agents are boring away at the last remnants of goy authority, striving to
overthrow all established forms of order. . .
"We have advertised sedition-mongers as martyrs for the common good,
though none will be permitted under our rule. This has brought many liberals
into the ranks of our 'cattle'. .
"Having used this freedom-shibboleth,we shall erase that word from the
lexicon; when we come into our kingdom. Freedom of the Press, of speech, of
association and conscience must disappear forever . . We define freedom as the
right to do that which the law allows; this serves our aim very well, for we
shall make the laws!"
"For our purpose, wars must not result in territorial gain, the true
battlefield will be the economic. Our international rights will then wipe out
national rights."
"We need an intensified centralization of government to facilitate our
control . . . We must so ferment things that the peoples of the world will
eventually cry out for one global government. . . Useless changes of government
to which we instigated the goyim in undermining their state structures will have
so disheartened the people that they will suffer serfdom under us rather than go
backward. . . One-third of our subjects will keep the rest under observation
from a sense of duty. . . The goyim are a flock of sheep and we are their
wolves.
"Though we have sacrificed many of our people in pursuit of the goal of
world-government, it has paid us. Each victim on our side is worth in the sight
of God a thousand goyim.
ON PROPAGANDA
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"Our aim must be to debilitate the public mind by continually fomenting
contradictory opinions and thus distract it from serious reflections which might
cause resistance to our aims. . . Let the goyim be bewildered, for there is
nothing so dangerous as personal initiative!"
"So that the true meaning of things shall not strike the goyim until the
proper time, we shall mask it under an alleged ardent desire to serve the
working classes. . If any States raise a protest against us, it is only pro
forma and by our direction, for their anti-Semitism is indispensable to us for
the management of our lesser brethren.
"The Press is already in our hands. Not a single announcement will reach
the public without our control. This we have already attained in large part
through our control of those agencies by which all news items must pass. . . We
shall put out our own journals, disguised as coming from elsewhere so that
readers will in effect be following the flag we hang out for them; these will
even be allowed to feign attacks on us, to convince people they are reading a
free press.... Let them discuss themselves silly!"
"Distraction is one of our principal aims -- through amusements gambling
and games of all kinds. . . have we not very successfully turned the brainless
heads of the goyim with 'progress' a fallacious idea except in terms of material
invention, for truth is one and there can be no place in it for progress?
"Progress" serves to obscure the truth so that none may know it except
ourselves, the Chosen of God, its guardians."
"When we come into our Kingdom, it will be undesirable that there should
exist any religion other than ours. We must therefore sweep away all other forms
of belief . . . We have long taken care to discredit the priesthood of the
goyim, whose influence falls lower day by day. But no one will ever bring our
faith under discussion from its true point of view, since only we shall know
that."
ON EDUCATION
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"We have bemused and corrupted the youth of the goyim by rearing them in
principles and theories we know to be false.
"To destroy every collectivism except ours, we shall emasculate the
universities. . . banning classical history and erasing from the memory of the
goyim all historical facts unfavorable to us."
"To discourage independent thinking, our subjects will be schooled only
for the occupations allotted to them. . . Students shall not busy themselves
with questions of polity in which even their own fathers never had any power of
thought."
"We shall choose goy administrators on their capacity for servile
obedience. :"
ON FREEMASONRY
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"Ours is an invisible force, for which Gentile Freemasonry unknowingly
serves as a screen. . . The aims of our organization of secret masonry are not
even suspected by these goy cattle attracted to it."
"We shall multiply Masonic Lodges as a means of gathering under our eye
all those goyim who (promise to become prominent in public activity),
particularly all agents of international police, for these are useful both to
enforce and to screen our activity. We puff up their foolish egotism, their need
for any little success, in order to keep them in line, for these tigers in
appearance have the souls of sheep . . . They are incapable of the analysis and
observation required for foresight, hence the inevitable subjection to ours of
the brute mind of the goyim.
"Who will ever suspect that all these people have been stage managed by
us according to a political plan which no one has guessed at these many
centuries?"
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"Capital must be free to establish monopolies so that its leaders shall
have political force."
"By centralizing in our own hands the money-power of the world, we can
throw all goyim into the ranks of the proletariat . . The goy aristocracy
benefited by having their people healthy and strong, we are interested in just
the opposite."
"Hunger creates the right of capital to rule the worker. By want and
envy and the hatred it engenders we shall move the mob. . . This hatred will be
further magnified by the effect of an economic crisis, which will stop dealings
on the changes and bring industry to a standstill. By creating this crisis we
shall throw upon the street whole mobs of workers simultaneously in all the
countries of Europe."
"We shall surround our government with a whole world of economists,
bankers and millionaires, because in substance everything will be settled on the
basis of figures."
"We must tear out of goyim heads the very principle of Godhead,
replacing it with arithmetical calculation and material needs . . We must put
industry on a speculative basis, for in that is our strength.
" Economic crises have been produced by us through the goyim by no other
means than the withdrawal of money from circulation Huge pools of capital have
stagnated, forcing States to borrow from them and thus become their
bond-slaves.. . in twenty years, a State which has borrowed money at 5% has paid
the whole sum in interest without reducing the debt. . . The State is thus
forced to impoverish its masses in order to pay off rich foreigners. Why could
those stupid goyim not have taken the money they needed from their own people.
"Goy governments could play tricks with internal loans but not the
external, for they know that we shall demand all our money back."
(Wow! If a "Russian religious mystic" so long ago could show this
good a grasp of money matters, maybe we should try to get one for our next
Minister of Finance!)
(from The Christian Defense League)
PROTOCOLS OF THE MEETINGS
OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION
1. ....Putting aside fine phrases we shall
speak of the significance of each thought: by comparisons and deductions we
shall throw light upon surrounding facts.
2. What I am about to set forth, then, is our system from the two points of
view, that of ourselves and that of the GOYIM [i.e., non-Jews].
3. It must be noted that men with bad instincts are more in number than the
good, and therefore the best results in governing them are attained by violence
and terrorisation, and not by academic discussions. Every man aims at power,
everyone would like to become a dictator if only he could, and rare indeed are
the men who would not be willing to sacrifice the welfare of all for the sake of
securing their own welfare.
4. What has restrained the beasts of prey who are called men? What has served
for their guidance hitherto?
5. In the beginnings of the structure of society, they were subjected to
brutal and blind force; afterwards -- to Law, which is the same force, only
disguised. I draw the conclusion that by the law of nature, right lies in force.
6. Political freedom is an idea but not a fact. This idea one must know how
to apply whenever it appears necessary with this bait of an idea to attract the
masses of the people to one's party for the purpose of crushing another who is
in authority. This task is rendered easier of the opponent has himself been
infected with the idea of freedom, SO-CALLED LIBERALISM, and, for the sake of an
idea, is willing to yield some of his power. It is precisely here that the
triumph of our theory appears; the slackened reins of government are
immediately, by the law of life, caught up and gathered together by a new hand,
because the blind might of the nation cannot for one single day exist without
guidance, and the new authority merely fits into the place of the old already
weakened by liberalism.
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7. In our day the power which has replaced that of the rulers who
were liberal is the power of Gold. Time was when Faith ruled. The idea of
freedom is impossible of realization because no one knows how to use it with
moderation. It is enough to hand over a people to self-government for a certain
length of time for that people to be turned into a disorganized mob. From that
moment on we get internecine strife which soon develops into battles between
classes, in the midst of which States burn down and their importance is reduced
to that of a heap of ashes.
8. Whether a State exhausts itself in its own convulsions, whether its
internal discord brings it under the power of external foes -- in any case it
can be accounted irretrievable lost: IT IS IN OUR POWER. The despotism of
Capital, which is entirely in our hands, reaches out to it a straw that the
State, willy-nilly, must take hold of: if not -- it goes to the bottom.
9. Should anyone of a liberal mind say that such reflections as the above are
immoral, I would put the following questions: If every State has two foes and if
in regard to the external foe it is allowed and not considered immoral to use
every manner and art of conflict, as for example to keep the enemy in ignorance
of plans of attack and defense, to attack him by night or in superior numbers,
then in what way can the same means in regard to a worse foe, the destroyer of
the structure of society and the commonweal, be called immoral and not
permissible?
10. Is it possible for any sound logical mind to hope with any success to
guide crowds by the aid of reasonable counsels and arguments, when any objection
or contradiction, senseless though it may be, can be made and when such
objection may find more favor with the people, whose powers of reasoning are
superficial? Men in masses and the men of the masses, being guided solely by
petty passions, paltry beliefs, traditions and sentimental theorems, fall a prey
to party dissension, which hinders any kind of agreement even on the basis of a
perfectly reasonable argument. Every resolution of a crowd depends upon a chance
or packed majority, which, in its ignorance of political secrets, puts forth
some ridiculous resolution that lays in the administration a seed of anarchy.
11. The political has nothing in common with the moral. The ruler who is
governed by the moral is not a skilled politician, and is therefore unstable on
his throne. He who wishes to rule must have recourse both to cunning and to
make-believe. Great national qualities, like frankness and honesty, are vices in
politics, for they bring down rulers from their thrones more effectively and
more certainly than the most powerful enemy. Such qualities must be the
attributes of the kingdoms of the GOYIM, but we must in no wise be guided by
them.
12. Our right lies in force. The word "right" is an
abstract thought and proved by nothing. The word means no more than: Give me
what I want in order that thereby I may have a proof that I am stronger than
you.
13. Where does right begin? Where does it end?
14. In any State in which there is a bad organization of authority, an
impersonality of laws and of the rulers who have lost their personality amid the
flood of rights ever multiplying out of liberalism, I find a new right -- to
attack by the right of the strong, and to scatter to the winds all existing
forces of order and regulation, to reconstruct all institutions and to become
the sovereign lord of those who have left to us the rights of their power by
laying them down voluntarily in their liberalism.
15. Our power in the present tottering condition of all forms of power will
be more invincible than any other, because it will remain invisible until the
moment when it has gained such strength that no cunning can any longer undermine
it.
16. Out of the temporary evil we are now compelled to commit will emerge the
good of an unshakable rule, which will restore the regular course of the
machinery of the national life, brought to naught by liberalism. The result
justifies the means. Let us, however, in our plans, direct our attention not so
much to what is good and moral as to what is necessary and useful.
17. Before us is a plan in which is laid down strategically the line from
which we cannot deviate without running the risk of seeing the labor of many
centuries brought to naught.
18. In order to elaborate satisfactory forms of action it is necessary to
have regard to the rascality, the slackness, the instability of the mob, its
lack of capacity to understand and respect the conditions of its own life, or
its own welfare. It must be understood that the might of a mob is blind,
senseless and un-reasoning force ever at the mercy of a suggestion from any
side. The blind cannot lead the blind without bringing them into the abyss;
consequently, members of the mob, upstarts from the people even though they
should be as a genius for wisdom, yet having no understanding of the political,
cannot come forward as leaders of the mob without bringing the whole nation to
ruin.
19. Only one trained from childhood for independent rule can have
understanding of the words that can be made up of the political alphabet.
20. A people left to itself, i.e., to upstarts from its midst, brings itself
to ruin by party dissensions excited by the pursuit of power and honors and the
disorders arising therefrom. Is it possible for the masses of the people calmly
and without petty jealousies to form judgment, to deal with the affairs of the
country, which cannot be mixed up with personal interest? Can they defend
themselves from an external foe? It is unthinkable; for a plan broken up into as
many parts as there are heads in the mob, loses all homogeneity, and thereby
becomes unintelligible and impossible of execution.
21. It is only with a despotic ruler that plans can be elaborated
extensively and clearly in such a way as to distribute the whole properly among
the several parts of the machinery of the State: from this the conclusion is
inevitable that a satisfactory form of government for any country is one that
concentrates in the hands of one responsible person. Without an absolute
despotism there can be no existence for civilization which is carried on not by
the masses but by their guide, whosoever that person may be. The mob is savage,
and displays its savagery at every opportunity. The moment the mob seizes
freedom in its hands it quickly turns to anarchy, which in itself is the highest
degree of savagery.
22. Behold the alcoholic animals, bemused with drink, the right to an
immoderate use of which comes along with freedom. It is not for us and ours to
walk that road. The peoples of the GOYIM are bemused with alcoholic liquors;
their youth has grown stupid on classicism and from early immorality, into which
it has been inducted by our special agents -- by tutors, lackeys, governesses in
the houses of the wealthy, by clerks and others, by our women in the places of
dissipation frequented by the GOYIM. In the number of these last I count also
the so-called "society ladies," voluntary followers of the
others in corruption and luxury.
23. Our countersign is - Force and Make-believe. Only force conquers in
political affairs, especially if it be concealed in the talents essential to
statesmen. Violence must be the principle, and cunning and make-believe the rule
for governments which do not want to lay down their crowns at the feet of agents
of some new power. This evil is the one and only means to attain the end, the
good. Therefore we must not stop at bribery, deceit and treachery when they
should serve towards the attainment of our end. In politics one must know how to
seize the property of others without hesitation if by it we secure submission
and sovereignty.
24. Our State, marching along the path of peaceful conquest, has the right to
replace the horrors of war by less noticeable and more satisfactory sentences of
death, necessary to maintain the terror which tends to produce blind submission.
Just but merciless severity is the greatest factor of strength in the State: not
only for the sake of gain but also in the name of duty, for the sake of victory,
we must keep to the programme of violence and make-believe. The doctrine of
squaring accounts is precisely as strong as the means of which it makes use.
Therefore it is not so much by the means themselves as by the doctrine of
severity that we shall triumph and bring all governments into subjection to our
super-government. It is enough for them to know that we are too merciless for
all disobedience to cease.
25. Far back in ancient times we were the first to cry among the
masses of the people the words "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,"
words many times repeated since these days by stupid poll-parrots who, from all
sides around, flew down upon these baits and with them carried away the
well-being of the world, true freedom of the individual, formerly so well
guarded against the pressure of the mob. The would-be wise men of the GOYIM, the
intellectuals, could not make anything out of the uttered words in their
abstractedness; did not see that in nature there is no equality, cannot be
freedom: that Nature herself has established inequality of minds, of characters,
and capacities, just as immutably as she has established subordination to her
laws: never stopped to think that the mob is a blind thing, that upstarts
elected from among it to bear rule are, in regard to the political, the same
blind men as the mob itself, that the adept, though he be a fool, can yet rule,
whereas the non-adept, even if he were a genius, understands nothing in the
political -- to all those things the GOYIM paid no regard; yet all the time it
was based upon these things that dynastic rule rested: the father passed on to
the son a knowledge of the course of political affairs in such wise that none
should know it but members of the dynasty and none could betray it to the
governed. As time went on, the meaning of the dynastic transference of the true
position of affairs in the political was lost, and this aided the success of our
cause.
26. In all corners of the earth the words "Liberty, Equality,
Fraternity," brought to our ranks, thanks to our blind agents, whole
legions who bore our banners with enthusiasm. And all the time these words were
canker-worms at work boring into the well-being of the GOYIM, putting an end
everywhere to peace, quiet, solidarity and destroying all the foundations of the
GOYA States. As you will see later, this helped us to our triumph: it gave us
the possibility, among other things, of getting into our hands the master card
-- the destruction of the privileges, or in other words of the very existence of
the aristocracy of the GOYIM, that class which was the only defense peoples and
countries had against us. On the ruins of the eternal and genealogical
aristocracy of the GOYIM we have set up the aristocracy of our educated class
headed by the aristocracy of money. The qualifications for this aristocracy we
have established in wealth, which is dependent upon us, and in knowledge, for
which our learned elders provide the motive force.
27. Our triumph has been rendered easier by the fact that in our relations
with the men, whom we wanted, we have always worked upon the most sensitive
chords of the human mind, upon the cash account, upon the cupidity, upon the
insatiability for material needs of man; and each one of these human weaknesses,
taken alone, is sufficient to paralyze initiative, for it hands over the will of
men to the disposition of him who has bought their activities.
28. The abstraction of freedom has enabled us to persuade the mob in all
countries that their government is nothing but the steward of the people who are
the owners of the country, and that the steward may be replaced like a worn-out
glove.
29. It is this possibility of replacing the representatives of the people
which has placed at our disposal, and, as it were, given us the power of
appointment.
1. It is indispensable for our purpose that wars, so far as possible,
should not result in territorial gains: war will thus be brought on to the
economic ground, where the nations will not fail to perceive in the assistance
we give the strength of our predominance, and this state of things will put both
sides at the mercy of our international AGENTUR; which possesses millions of
eyes ever on the watch and unhampered by any limitations whatsoever. Our
international rights will then wipe out national rights, in the proper sense of
right, and will rule the nations precisely as the civil law of States rules the
relations of their subjects among themselves.
2. The administrators, whom we shall choose from among the public, with
strict regard to their capacities for servile obedience, will not be persons
trained in the arts of government, and will therefore easily become pawns in our
game in the hands of men of learning and genius who will be their advisers,
specialists bred and reared from early childhood to rule the affairs of the
whole world. As is well known to you, these specialists of ours have been
drawing to fit them for rule the information they need from our political plans
from the lessons of history, from observations made of the events of every
moment as it passes. The GOYIM are not guided by practical use of unprejudiced
historical observation, but by theoretical routine without any critical regard
for consequent results. We need not, therefore, take any account of them -- let
them amuse themselves until the hour strikes, or live on hopes of new forms of
enterprising pastime, or on the memories of all they have enjoyed. For them let
that play the principal part which we have persuaded them to accept as the
dictates of science (theory). It is with this object in view that we are
constantly, by means of our press, arousing a blind confidence in these
theories. The intellectuals of the GOYIM will puff themselves up with their
knowledges and without any logical verification of them will put into effect all
the information available from science, which our AGENTUR specialists have
cunningly pieced together for the purpose of educating their minds in the
direction we want.
3. Do not suppose for a moment that these statements are empty words:
think carefully of the successes we arranged for Darwinism, Marxism,
Nietzsche-ism. To us Jews, at any rate, it should be plain to see what a
disintegrating importance these directives have had upon the minds of the GOYIM.
4. It is indispensable for us to take account of the thoughts, characters,
tendencies of the nations in order to avoid making slips in the political and in
the direction of administrative affairs. The triumph of our system of which the
component parts of the machinery may be variously disposed according to the
temperament of the peoples met on our way, will fail of success if the practical
application of it be not based upon a summing up of the lessons of the past in
the light of the present.
5. In the hands of the States of to-day there is a great force that creates
the movement of thought in the people, and that is the Press. The part played by
the Press is to keep pointing our requirements supposed to be indispensable, to
give voice to the complaints of the people, to express and to create discontent.
It is in the Press that the triumph of freedom of speech finds its incarnation.
But the GOYIM States have not known how to make use of this force; and it has
fallen into our hands. Through the Press we have gained the power to influence
while remaining ourselves in the shade; thanks to the Press we have got the GOLD
in our hands, notwithstanding that we have had to gather it out of the oceans of
blood and tears. But it has paid us, though we have sacrificed many of our
people. Each victim on our side is worth in the sight of God a thousand GOYIM.
1. To-day I may tell you that our goal is now only a few steps off.
There remains a small space to cross and the whole long path we have trodden is
ready now to close its cycle of the Symbolic Snake, by which we symbolize our
people. When this ring closes, all the States of Europe will be locked in its
coil as in a powerful vice.
2. The constitution scales of these days will shortly break down, for we have
established them with a certain lack of accurate balance in order that they may
oscillate incessantly until they wear through the pivot on which they turn. The
GOYIM are under the impression that they have welded them sufficiently strong
and they have all along kept on expecting that the scales would come into
equilibrium. But the pivots -- the kings on their thrones -- are hemmed in by
their representatives, who play the fool, distraught with their own uncontrolled
and irresponsible power. This power they owe to the terror which has been
breathed into the palaces. As they have no means of getting at their people,
into their very midst, the kings on their thrones are no longer able to come to
terms with them and so strengthen themselves against seekers after power. We
have made a gulf between the far-seeing Sovereign Power and the blind force of
the people so that both have lost all meaning, for like the blind man and his
stick, both are powerless apart.
3. In order to incite seekers after power to a misuse of power we have set
all forces in opposition one to another, breaking up their liberal tendencies
towards independence. To this end we have stirred up every form of enterprise,
we have armed all parties, we have set up authority as a target for every
ambition. Of States we have made gladiatorial arenas where a lot of confused
issues contend ... A little more, and disorders and bankruptcy will be universal
...
4. Babblers, inexhaustible, have turned into oratorical contests the sittings
of Parliament and Administrative Boards. Bold journalists and unscrupulous
pamphleteers daily fall upon executive officials. Abuses of power will put the
final touch in preparing all institutions for their overthrow and everything
will fly skyward under the blows of the maddened mob.
5. All people are chained down to heavy toil by poverty more firmly
than ever. They were chained by slavery and serfdom; from these, one way and
another, they might free themselves. These could be settled with, but from want
they will never get away. We have included in the constitution such rights as to
the masses appear fictitious and not actual rights. All these so-called "Peoples
Rights" can exist only in idea, an idea which can never be realized in
practical life. What is it to the proletariat laborer, bowed double over his
heavy toil, crushed by his lot in life, if talkers get the right to babble, if
journalists get the right to scribble any nonsense side by side with good stuff,
once the proletariat has no other profit out of the constitution save only those
pitiful crumbs which we fling them from our table in return for their voting in
favor of what we dictate, in favor of the men we place in power, the servants of
our AGENTUR ... Republican rights for a poor man are no more than a bitter piece
of irony, for the necessity he is under of toiling almost all day gives him no
present use of them, but the other hand robs him of all guarantee of regular and
certain earnings by making him dependent on strikes by his comrades or lockouts
by his masters.
6. The people, under our guidance, have annihilated the aristocracy,
who were their one and only defense and foster- mother for the sake of their own
advantage which is inseparably bound up with the well-being of the people.
Nowadays, with the destruction of the aristocracy, the people have fallen into
the grips of merciless money-grinding scoundrels who have laid a pitiless and
cruel yoke upon the necks of the workers.
7. We appear on the scene as alleged saviours of the worker from this
oppression when we propose to him to enter the ranks of our fighting forces --
Socialists, Anarchists, Communists -- to whom we always give support in
accordance with an alleged brotherly rule (of the solidarity of all humanity) of
our SOCIAL MASONRY. The aristocracy, which enjoyed by law
the labor of the workers, was interested in seeing that the workers were well
fed, healthy, and strong. We are interested in just the opposite -- in the
diminution, the KILLING OUT OF THE GOYIM. Our power is in the chronic shortness
of food and physical weakness of the worker because by all that this implies he
is made the slave of our will, and he will not find in his own authorities
either strength or energy to set against our will. Hunger creates the right of
capital to rule the worker more surely than it was given to the aristocracy by
the legal authority of kings.
8. By want and the envy and hatred which it engenders we shall move the mobs
and with their hands we shall wipe out all those who hinder us on our way.
9. WHEN THE HOUR STRIKES FOR OUR SOVEREIGN LORD OF ALL THE WORLD TO BE
CROWNED IT IS THESE SAME HANDS WHICH WILL SWEEP AWAY EVERYTHING THAT MIGHT BE A
HINDRANCE THERETO.
10. The GOYIM have lost the habit of thinking unless prompted by the
suggestions of our specialists. Therefore they do not see the urgent necessity
of what we, when our kingdom comes, shall adopt at once, namely this, that IT IS
ESSENTIAL TO TEACH IN NATIONAL SCHOOLS ONE SIMPLE, TRUE PIECE OF KNOWLEDGE, THE
BASIS OF ALL KNOWLEDGE -- THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE STRUCTURE OF HUMAN LIFE, OF
SOCIAL EXISTENCE, WHICH REQUIRES DIVISION OF LABOR, AND, CONSEQUENTLY, THE
DIVISION OF MEN INTO CLASSES AND CONDITIONS. It is essential for all to know
that OWING TO DIFFERENCE IN THE OBJECTS OF HUMAN ACTIVITY THERE CANNOT BE ANY
EQUALITY, that he, who by any act of his compromises a whole class, cannot be
equally responsible before the law with him who affects no one but only his own
honor. The true knowledge of the structure of society, into the secrets of which
we do not admit the GOYIM, would demonstrate to all men that the positions and
work must be kept within a certain circle, that they may not become a source of
human suffering, arising from an education which does not correspond with the
work which individuals are called upon to do. After a thorough study of this
knowledge, the peoples will voluntarily submit to authority and accept such
position as is appointed them in the State. In the present state of knowledge
and the direction we have given to its development of the people, blindly
believing things in print -- cherishes -- thanks to promptings intended to
mislead and to its own ignorance -- a blind hatred towards all conditions which
it considers above itself, for it has no understanding of the meaning of class
and condition.
11. THIS HATRED WILL BE STILL FURTHER MAGNIFIED BY THE EFFECTS of an
ECONOMIC CRISES, which will stop dealing on the exchanges and bring industry to
a standstill. We shall create by all the secret subterranean methods open to us
and with the aid of gold, which is all in our hands, A UNIVERSAL ECONOMIC CRISES
WHEREBY WE SHALL THROW UPON THE STREETS WHOLE MOBS OF WORKERS SIMULTANEOUSLY IN
ALL THE COUNTRIES OF EUROPE. These mobs will rush delightedly to shed the blood
of those whom, in the simplicity of their ignorance, they have envied from their
cradles, and whose property they will then be able to loot.
12 "OURS" THEY WILL NOT TOUCH, BECAUSE THE MOMENT OF ATTACK WILL BE
KNOWN TO US AND WE SHALL TAKE MEASURES TO PROTECT OUR OWN.
13. We have demonstrated that progress will bring all the GOYIM to the
sovereignty of reason. Our despotism will be precisely that; for it will know
how, by wise severities, to pacificate all unrest, to cauterize liberalism out
of all institutions.
14. When the populace has seen that all sorts of concessions and indulgences
are yielded it, in the same name of freedom it has imagined itself to be
sovereign lord and has stormed its way to power, but, naturally like every other
blind man, it has come upon a host of stumbling blocks. IT HAS RUSHED TO FIND A
GUIDE, IT HAS NEVER HAD THE SENSE TO RETURN TO THE FORMER STATE and it has laid
down its plenipotentiary powers at OUR feet. Remember the French Revolution, to
which it was we who gave the name of "Great": the secrets of
its preparations are well known to us for it was wholly the work of our hands.
15 Ever since that time we have been leading the peoples from one
disenchantment to another, so that in the end they should turn also from us in
favor of that KING-DESPOT OF THE BLOOD OF ZION, WHOM WE ARE PREPARING FOR THE
WORLD.
16. At the present day we are, as an international force, invincible, because
if attacked by some we are supported by other States. It is the bottomless
rascality of the GOYIM peoples, who crawl on their bellies to force, but are
merciless towards weakness, unsparing to faults and indulgent to crimes,
unwilling to bear the contradictions of a free social system but patient unto
martyrdom under the violence of a bold despotism -- it is those qualities which
are aiding us to independence. From the premier-dictators of the present day,
the GOYIM peoples suffer patiently and bear such abuses as for the least of them
they would have beheaded twenty kings.
17. What is the explanation of this phenomenon, this curious inconsequence of
the masses of the peoples in their attitude towards what would appear to be
events of the same order?
18. It is explained by the fact that these dictators whisper to the peoples
through their agents that through these abuses they are inflicting injury on the
States with the highest purpose -- to secure the welfare of the peoples, the
international brotherhood of them all, their solidarity and equality of rights.
Naturally they do not tell the peoples that this unification must be
accomplished only under our sovereign rule.
19. And thus the people condemn the upright and acquit the guilty, persuaded
ever more and more that it can do whatsoever it wishes. Thanks to this state of
things, the people are destroying every kind of stability and creating disorders
at every step.
20. The word "freedom" brings out the communities of men to
fight against every kind of force, against every kind of authority even against
God and the laws of nature. For this reason we, when we come into our kingdom,
shall have to erase this word from the lexicon of life as implying a principle
of brute force which turns mobs into bloodthirsty beasts.
21. These beasts, it is true, fall asleep again every time when they have
drunk their fill of blood, and at such time can easily be riveted into their
chains. But if they be not given blood they will not sleep and continue to
struggle.
1. Every republic passes through several stages. The first of these
is comprised in the early days of mad raging by the blind mob, tossed hither and
thither, right and left: the second is demagogy from which is born anarchy, and
that leads inevitably to despotism - not any longer legal and overt, and
therefore responsible despotism, but to unseen and secretly hidden, yet
nevertheless sensibly felt despotism in the hands of some secret organization or
other, whose acts are the more unscrupulous inasmuch as it works behind a
screen, behind the backs of all sorts of agents, the changing of whom not only
does not injuriously affect but actually aids the secret force by saving it,
thanks to continual changes, from the necessity of expanding its resources on
the rewarding of long services.
2. Who and what is in a position to overthrow an invisible force? And this is
precisely what our force is. GENTILE masonry blindly serves as a screen for us
and our objects, but the plan of action of our force, even its very
abiding-place, remains for the whole people an unknown mystery.
3. But even freedom might be harmless and have its place in the State
economy without injury to the well-being of the peoples if it rested upon the
foundation of faith in God, upon the brotherhood of humanity, unconnected with
the conception of equality, which is negatived by the very laws of creation, for
they have established subordination. With such a faith as this a people might be
governed by a wardship of parishes, and would walk contentedly and humbly under
the guiding hand of its spiritual pastor submitting to the dispositions of God
upon earth. This is the reason why IT IS INDISPENSABLE FOR US TO UNDERMINE ALL
FAITH, TO TEAR OUT OF THE MIND OF THE "GOYIM" THE VERY
PRINCIPLE OF GOD-HEAD AND THE SPIRIT, AND TO PUT IN ITS PLACE ARITHMETICAL
CALCULATIONS AND MATERIAL NEEDS.
4. In order to give the GOYIM no time to think and take note, their minds
must be diverted towards industry and trade. Thus, all the nations will be
swallowed up in the pursuit of gain and in the race for it will not take note of
their common foe. But again, in order that freedom may once for all disintegrate
and ruin the communities of the GOYIM, we must put industry on a speculative
basis: the result of this will be that what is withdrawn from the land by
industry will slip through the hands and pass into speculation, that is, to our
classes.
5. The intensified struggle for superiority and shocks delivered to economic
life will create, nay, have already created, disenchanted, cold and heartless
communities. Such communities will foster a strong aversion towards the higher
political and towards religion. Their only guide is gain, that is Gold, which
they will erect into a veritable cult, for the sake of those material delights
which it can give. Then will the hour strike when, not for the sake of attaining
the good, not even to win wealth, but solely out of hatred towards the
privileged, the lower classes of the GOYIM will follow our lead against our
rivals for power, the intellectuals of the GOYIM.
1. What form of administrative rule can be given to communities in
which corruption has penetrated everywhere, communities where riches are
attained only by the clever surprise tactics of semi-swindling tricks; where
loseness reigns: where morality is maintained by penal measures and harsh laws
but not by voluntarily accepted principles: where the feelings towards faith and
country are obligated by cosmopolitan convictions? What form of rule is to be
given to these communities if not that despotism which I shall describe to you
later? We shall create an intensified centralization of government in order to
grip in our hands all the forces of the community. We shall regulate
mechanically all the actions of the political life of our subjects by new laws.
These laws will withdraw one by one all the indulgences and liberties which have
been permitted by the GOYIM, and our kingdom will be distinguished by a
despotism of such magnificent proportions as to be at any moment and in every
place in a position to wipe out any GOYIM who oppose us by deed or word.
2. We shall be told that such a despotism as I speak of is not consistent
with the progress of these days, but I will prove to you that is is.
3. In the times when the peoples looked upon kings on their thrones as on a
pure manifestation of the will of God, they submitted without a murmur to the
despotic power of kings: but from the day when we insinuated into their minds
the conception of their own rights they began to regard the occupants of thrones
as mere ordinary mortals. The holy unction of the Lord's Anointed has fallen
from the heads of kings in the eyes of the people, and when we also robbed them
of their faith in God the might of power was flung upon the streets into the
place of public proprietorship and was seized by us.
4. Moreover, the art of directing masses and individuals by means of
cleverly manipulated theory and verbitage, by regulations of life in common and
all sorts of other quirks, in all which the GOYIM understand nothing, belongs
likewise to the specialists of our administrative brain. Reared on analysis,
observation, on delicacies of fine calculation, in this species of skill we have
no rivals, any more than we have either in the drawing up of plans of political
actions and solidarity. In this respect the Jesuits alone might have compared
with us, but we have contrived to discredit them in the eyes of the unthinking
mob as an overt organization, while we ourselves all the while have kept our
secret organization in the shade. However, it is probably all the same to the
world who is its sovereign lord, whether the head of Catholicism or our despot
of the blood of Zion! But to us, the Chosen People, it is very far from being a
matter of indifference.
5. FOR A TIME PERHAPS WE MIGHT BE SUCCESSFULLY DEALT WITH BY A COALITION OF
THE "GOYIM" OF ALL THE WORLD: but from this danger we are secured by
the discord existing among them whose roots are so deeply seated that they can
never now be plucked up. We have set one against another the personal and
national reckonings of the GOYIM, religious and race hatreds, which we have
fostered into a huge growth in the course of the past twenty centuries. This is
the reason why there is not one State which would anywhere receive support if it
were to raise its arm, for every one of them must bear in mind that any
agreement against us would be unprofitable to itself. We are too strong -- there
is no evading our power. THE NATIONS CANNOT COME TO EVEN AN INCONSIDERABLE
PRIVATE AGREEMENT WITHOUT OUR SECRETLY HAVING A HAND IN IT.
6. PER ME REGES REGNANT. "It is through me that Kings reign."
And it was said by the prophets that we were chosen by God Himself to rule over
the whole earth. God has endowed us with genius that we may be equal to our
task. Were genius in the opposite camp it would still struggle against us, but
even so, a newcomer is no match for the old-established settler: the struggle
would be merciless between us, such a fight as the world has never seen. Aye,
and the genius on their side would have arrived too late. All the wheels of the
machinery of all States go by the force of the engine, which is in our hands,
and that engine of the machinery of States is -- Gold. The science of political
economy invented by our learned elders has for long past been giving royal
prestige to capital.
7. Capital, if it is to co-operate untrammeled, must be free to
establish a monopoly of industry and trade: this is already being put in
execution by an unseen hand in all quarters of the world. This freedom will give
political force to those engaged in industry, and that will help to oppress the
people. Nowadays it is more important to disarm the peoples than to lead them
into war: more important to use for our advantage the passions which have burst
into flames than to quench their fire: more important to eradicate them. THE
PRINCIPLE OBJECT OF OUR DIRECTORATE CONSISTS IN THIS: TO DEBILITATE THE PUBLIC
MIND BY CRITICISM; TO LEAD IT AWAY FROM SERIOUS REFLECTIONS CALCULATED TO AROUSE
RESISTANCE; TO DISTRACT THE FORCES OF THE MIND TOWARDS A SHAM FIGHT OF EMPTY
CLOQUENCE.
8. In all ages the people of the world, equally with individuals, have
accepted words for deeds, for THEY ARE CONTENT WITH A SHOW and rarely pause to
note, in the public arena, whether promises are followed by performance.
Therefore we shall establish show institutions which will give eloquent proof of
their benefit to progress.
9. We shall assume to ourselves the liberal physiognomy of all parties, of
all directions, and we shall give that physiognomy a VOICE IN ORATORS WHO WILL
SPEAK SO MUCH THAT THEY WILL EXHAUST THE PATIENCE OF THEIR HEARERS AND PRODUCE
AN ABHORRENCE OF ORATORY.
10. IN ORDER TO PUT PUBLIC OPINION INTO OUR HANDS WE MUST BRING IT INTO A
STATE OF BEWILDERMENT BY GIVING EXPRESSION FROM ALL SIDES TO SO MANY
CONTRADICTORY OPINIONS AND FOR SUCH LENGTH OF TIME AS WILL SUFFICE TO MAKE THE "GOYIM"
LOSE THEIR HEADS IN THE LABYRINTH AND COME TO SEE THAT THE BEST THING IS TO HAVE
NO OPINION OF ANY KIND IN MATTERS POLITICAL, which it is not given to the public
to understand, because they are understood only by him who guides the public.
This is the first secret.
11. The second secret requisite for the success of our government is
comprised in the following: To multiply to such an extent national failings,
habits, passions, conditions of civil life, that it will be impossible for
anyone to know where he is in the resulting chaos, so that the people in
consequence will fail to understand one another. This measure will also serve us
in another way, namely, to sow discord in all parties, to dislocate all
collective forces which are still unwilling to submit to us, and to discourage
any kind of personal initiative which might in any degree hinder our affair.
THERE IS NOTHING MORE DANGEROUS THAN PERSONAL INITIATIVE: if it has genius
behind it, such initiative can do more than can be done by millions of people
among whom we have sown discord. We must so direct the education of the GOYIM
communities that whenever they come upon a matter requiring initiative they may
drop their hands in despairing impotence. The strain which results from freedom
of actions saps the forces when it meets with the freedom of another. From this
collision arise grave moral shocks, disenchantments, failures. BY ALL THESE
MEANS WE SHALL SO WEAR DOWN THE "GOYIM" THAT THEY WILL BE COMPELLED TO
OFFER US INTERNATIONAL POWER OF A NATURE THAT BY ITS POSITION WILL ENABLE US
WITHOUT ANY VIOLENCE GRADUALLY TO ABSORB ALL THE STATE FORCES OF THE WORLD AND
TO FORM A SUPER-GOVERNMENT. In place of the
rulers of to-day we shall set up a bogey which will be called the
Super-Government Administration. Its hands will reach out in all directions like
nippers and its organization will be of such colossal dimensions that it cannot
fail to subdue all the nations of the world.
1. We shall soon begin to establish huge monopolies, reservoirs of
colossal riches, upon which even, large fortunes of the GOYIM will depend to
such an extent that they will go to the bottom together with the credit of the
States on the day after the political smash ...
2. You gentlemen here present who are economists, just strike an estimate of
the significance of this combination! ...
3. In every possible way we must develop the significance of our
Super-Government by representing it as the Protector and Benefactor of all those
who voluntarily submit to us.
4. The aristocracy of the GOYIM as a political force, is dead -- We need not
take it into account; but as landed proprietors they can still be harmful to us
from the fact that they are self-sufficing in the resources upon which they
live. It is essential therefore for us at whatever cost to deprive them of their
land. This object will be best attained by increasing the burdens upon landed
property -- in loading lands with debts. These measures will check land-holding
and keep it in a state of humble and un-conditional submission.
5. The aristocrats of the GOYIM, being hereditarily incapable of contenting
themselves with little, will rapidly burn up and fizzle out.
6. At the same time we must intensively patronize trade and industry,
but, first and foremost, speculation, the part played by which is to provide a
counterpoise to industry: the absence of speculative industry will multiply
capital in private hands and will serve to restore agriculture by freeing the
land from indebtedness to the land banks. What we want is that industry should
drain off from the land both labor and capital and by means of speculation
transfer into our hands all the money of the world, and thereby throw all the
GOYIM into the ranks of the proletariat. Then the GOYIM will bow down before us,
if for no other reason but to get the right to exist.
7. To complete the ruin of the industry of the GOYIM we shall bring to the
assistance of speculation the luxury which we have developed among the GOYIM,
that greedy demand for luxury which is swallowing up everything. WE SHALL RAISE
THE RATE OF WAGES WHICH, HOWEVER, WILL NOT BRING ANY ADVANTAGE TO THE WORKERS,
FOR, AT THE SAME TIME, WE SHALL PRODUCE A RISE IN PRICES OF THE FIRST
NECESSARIES OF LIFE, ALLEGING THAT IT ARISES FROM THE DECLINE OF AGRICULTURE AND
CATTLE-BREEDING: WE SHALL FURTHER UNDERMINE ARTFULLY AND DEEPLY SOURCES OF
PRODUCTION, BY ACCUSTOMING THE WORKERS TO ANARCHY AND TO DRUNKENNESS AND SIDE BY
SIDE THEREWITH TAKING ALL MEASURE TO EXTIRPATE FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH ALL
THE EDUCATED FORCES OF THE "GOYIM."
8. IN ORDER THAT THE TRUE MEANING OF THINGS MAY NOT STRIKE THE "GOYIM"
BEFORE THE PROPER TIME WE SHALL MASK IT UNDER AN ALLEGED ARDENT DESIRE TO SERVE
THE WORKING CLASSES AND THE GREAT PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY ABOUT WHICH
OUR ECONOMIC THEORIES ARE CARRYING ON AN ENERGETIC PROPAGANDA.
1. The intensification of armaments, the increase of police forces -
are all essential for the completion of the aforementioned plans. What we have
to get at is that there should be in all the States of the world, besides
ourselves, only the masses of the proletariat, a few millionaires devoted to our
interests, police and soldiers.
2. Throughout all Europe, and by means of relations with Europe, in other
continents also, we must create ferments, discords and hostility. Therein we
gain a double advantage. In the first place we keep in check all countries, for
they will know that we have the power whenever we like to create disorders or to
restore order. All these countries are accustomed to see in us an indispensable
force of coercion. In the second place, by our intrigues we shall tangle up all
the threads which we have stretched into the cabinets of all States by means of
the political, by economic treaties, or loan obligations. In order to succeed in
this we must use great cunning and penetration during negotiations and
agreements, but, as regards what is called the "official language,"
we shall keep to the opposite tactics and assume the mask of honesty and
complacency. In this way the peoples and governments of the GOYIM, whom we have
taught to look only at the outside whatever we present to their notice, will
still continue to accept us as the benefactors and saviours of the human race.
3. We must be in a position to respond to every act of opposition by
war with the neighbors of that country which dares to oppose us: but if these
neighbors should also venture to stand collectively together against us, then we
must offer resistance by a universal war.
4. The principal factor of success in the political is the secrecy of its
undertakings: the word should not agree with the deeds of the diplomat.
5. We must compel the governments of the GOYIM to take action in the
direction favored by our widely conceived plan, already approaching the desired
consummation, by what we shall represent as public opinion, secretly promoted by
us through the means of that so-called "Great Power" - THE
PRESS, WHICH, WITH A FEW EXCEPTIONS THAT MAY BE DISREGARDED, IS ALREADY ENTIRELY
IN OUR HANDS.
1. We must arm ourselves with all the weapons which our opponents might
employ against us. We must search out in the very finest shades of expression
and the knotty points of the lexicon of law justification for those cases where
we shall have to pronounce judgments that might appear abnormally audacious and
unjust, for it is important that these resolutions should be set forth in
expressions that shall seem to be the most exalted moral principles cast into
legal form. Our directorate must surround itself with all these forces of
civilization among which it will have to work. It will surround itself with
publicists, practical jurists, administrators, diplomats and, finally, with
persons prepared by a special super-educational training IN OUR SPECIAL SCHOOLS.
These persons will have
consonance of all the secrets of the social structure, they will know all the
languages that can be made up by political alphabets and words; they will be
made acquainted with the whole underside of human nature, with all its sensitive
chords on which they will have to play. These chords are the cast of mind of the
GOYIM, their tendencies, short-comings, vices and qualities, the particularities
of classes and conditions. Needless to say that the talented assistants of
authority, of whom I speak, will be taken not from among the GOYIM, who are
accustomed to perform their administrative work without giving themselves the
trouble to think what its aim is, and never consider what it is needed for. The
administrators of the GOYIM sign papers without reading them, and they
serve either for mercenary reasons or from ambition.
2. We shall surround our government with a whole world of economists. That is
the reason why economic sciences form the principal subject of the teaching
given to the Jews. Around us again will be a whole constellation of bankers,
industrialists, capitalists and - THE MAIN THING - MILLIONAIRES, BECAUSE IN
SUBSTANCE EVERYTHING WILL BE SETTLED BY THE QUESTION OF FIGURES.
3. For a time, until there will no longer be any risk in entrusting
responsible posts in our State to our brother-Jews, we shall put them in the
hands of persons whose past and reputation are such that between them and the
people lies an abyss, persons who, in case of disobedience to our instructions,
must face criminal charges or disappear -- this in order to make them defend our
interests to their last gasp.
1. In applying our principles let attention be paid to the character of the
people in whose country you live and act; a general, identical application of
them, until such time as the people shall have been re-educated to our pattern,
cannot have success. But by approaching their application cautiously you will
see that not a decade will pass before the most stubborn character will change
and we shall add a new people to the ranks of those already subdued by us.
2. The words of the liberal, which are in effect the words of our masonic
watchword, namely, "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," will, when
we come into our kingdom, be changed by us into words no longer of a watchword,
but only an expression of idealism, namely, into "The right of liberty,
the duty of equality, the ideal of brotherhood." That is how we shall
put it, -- and so we shall catch the bull by the horns ... DE FACTO we have
already wiped out every kind of rule except our own, although DE JURE there
still remain a good many of them. Nowadays, if any States raise a protest
against us it is only PRO FORMA at our discretion and by our direction, for
THEIR ANTI-SEMITISM IS INDISPENSABLE TO US FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF OUR LESSER
BRETHREN. I will not enter into further explanations, for this matter has formed
the subject of repeated discussions amongst us.
3. For us there are not checks to limit the range of our activity. Our
Super-Government subsists in extra-legal conditions which are described in the
accepted terminology by the energetic and forcible word -- Dictatorship. I am in
a position to tell you with a clear conscience that at the proper time we, the
law-givers, shall execute judgment and sentence, we shall slay and we shall
spare, we, as head of all our troops, are mounted on the steed of the leader. We
rule by force of will, because in our hands are the fragments of a once powerful
party, now vanquished by us. AND THE WEAPONS IN OUR HANDS ARE LIMITLESS
AMBITIONS, BURNING GREEDINESS, MERCILESS VENGEANCE, HATREDS AND MALICE.
4. IT IS FROM US THAT THE ALL-ENGULFING TERROR PROCEEDS. WE HAVE IN OUR
SERVICE PERSONS OF ALL OPINIONS, OF ALL DOCTRINES, RESTORATING MONARCHISTS,
DEMAGOGUES, SOCIALISTS, COMMUNISTS, AND UTOPIAN DREAMERS OF EVERY KIND. We have
harnessed them all to the task: EACH ONE OF THEM ON HIS OWN ACCOUNT IS BORING
AWAY AT THE LAST REMNANTS OF AUTHORITY, IS STRIVING TO OVERTHROW ALL ESTABLISHED
FORM OF ORDER. By these acts all States are in torture; they exhort to
tranquility, are ready to sacrifice everything for peace: BUT WE WILL NOT GIVE
THEM PEACE UNTIL THEY OPENLY ACKNOWLEDGE OUR INTERNATIONAL SUPER-GOVERNMENT, AND
WITH SUBMISSIVENESS.
5. The people have raised a howl about the necessity of settling the question
of Socialism by way of an international agreement. DIVISION INTO FRACTIONAL
PARTIES HAS GIVEN THEM INTO OUR HANDS, FOR, IN ORDER TO CARRY ON A CONTESTED
STRUGGLE ONE MUST HAVE MONEY, AND THE MONEY IS ALL IN OUR HANDS.
6. We might have reason to apprehend a union between the "clear-sighted"
force of the GOY kings on their thrones and the "blind" force
of the GOY mobs, but we have taken all the needful measure against any such
possibility: between the one and the other force we have erected a bulwark in
the shape of a mutual terror between them. In this way the blind force of the
people remains our support and we, and we only, shall provide them with a leader
and, of course, direct them along the road that leads to our goal.
7. In order that the hand of the blind mob may not free itself from our
guiding hand, we must every now and then enter into close communion with it, if
not actually in person, at any rate through some of the most trusty of our
brethren. When we are acknowledged as the only authority we shall discuss with
the people personally on the market, places, and we shall instruct them on
questings of the political in such wise as may turn them in the direction that
suits us.
8. Who is going to verify what is taught in the village schools? But what an
envoy of the government or a king on his throne himself may say cannot but
become immediately known to the whole State, for it will be spread abroad by the
voice of the people.
9. In order to annihilate the institutions of the GOYIM before it is time we
have touched them with craft and delicacy, and have taken hold of the ends of
the springs which move their mechanism. These springs lay in a strict but just
sense of order; we have replaced them by the chaotic license of liberalism. We
have got our hands into the administration of the law, into the conduct of
elections, into the press, into liberty of the person, BUT PRINCIPALLY INTO
EDUCATION AND TRAINING AS BEING THE CORNERSTONES OF A FREE EXISTENCE.
10. WE HAVE FOOLED, BEMUSED AND CORRUPTED THE YOUTH OF THE "GOYIM"
BY REARING THEM IN PRINCIPLES AND THEORIES WHICH ARE KNOWN TO US TO BE FALSE
ALTHOUGH IT IS THAT THEY HAVE BEEN INCULCATED.
11. Above the existing laws without substantially altering them, and by
merely twisting them into contradictions of interpretations, we have erected
something grandiose in the way of results. These results found expression in the
fact that the INTERPRETATIONS MASKED THE LAW: afterwards they entirely hid them
from the eyes of the governments owing to the impossibility of making anything
out of the tangled web of legislation.
12. This is the origin of the theory of course of arbitration.
13. You may say that the GOYIM will rise upon us, arms in hand, if they guess
what is going on before the time comes; but in the West we have against this a
manoeuvre of such appalling terror that the very stoutest hearts quail -- the
undergrounds, metropolitans, those subterranean corridors which, before the time
comes, will be driven under all the capitals and from whence those capitals will
be blown into the air with all their organizations and archives.
1. To-day I begin with a repetition of what I said before, and I BEG
YOU TO BEAR IN MIND THAT GOVERNMENTS AND PEOPLE ARE CONTENT IN THE POLITICAL
WITH OUTSIDE APPEARANCES. And how, indeed, are the GOYIM to perceive the
underlying meaning of things when their representatives give the best of their
energies to enjoying themselves? For our policy it is of the greatest importance
to take cognizance of this detail; it will be of assistance to us when we come
to consider the division of authority of property, of the dwelling, of taxation (the
idea of concealed taxes), of the reflex force of the laws. All these
questions are such as ought not to be touched upon directly and openly before
the people. In cases where it is indispensable to touch upon them they must not
be categorically named, it must merely be declared without detailed exposition
that the principles of contemporary law are acknowledged by us. The reason of
keeping silence in this respect is that by not naming a principle we leave
ourselves freedom of action, to drop this or that out of it without attracting
notice; if they were all categorically named they would all appear to have been
already given.
2. The mob cherishes a special affection and respect for the geniuses of
political power and accepts all their deeds of violence with the admiring
response: "rascally, well, yes, it is rascally, but it's clever! ... a
trick, if you like, but how craftily played, how magnificently done, what
impudent audacity!" ...
3. We count upon attracting all nations to the task of erecting the
new fundamental structure, the project for which has been drawn up by us. This
is why, before everything, it is indispensable for us to arm ourselves and to
store up in ourselves that absolutely reckless audacity and irresistible might
of the spirit which in the person of our active workers will break down all
hindrances on our way.
4. WHEN WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED OUR COUP D'ETAT WE SHALL SAY THEN TO THE VARIOUS
PEOPLES: "EVERYTHING HAS GONE TERRIBLY BADLY, ALL HAVE BEEN WORN OUT
WITH SUFFERING. WE ARE DESTROYING THE CAUSES OF YOUR TORMENT -- NATIONALITIES,
FRONTIERS, DIFFERENCES OF COINAGES. YOU ARE AT LIBERTY, OF COURSE, TO PRONOUNCE
SENTENCE UPON US, BUT CAN IT POSSIBLY BE A JUST ONE IF IT IS CONFIRMED BY YOU
BEFORE YOU MAKE ANY TRIAL OF WHAT WE ARE OFFERING YOU." ... THEN WILL
THE MOB EXALT US AND BEAR US UP IN THEIR HANDS IN A UNANIMOUS TRIUMPH OF HOPES
AND EXPECTATIONS. VOTING, WHICH WE HAVE MADE THE INSTRUMENT WHICH WILL SET US ON
THE THRONE OF THE WORLD BY TEACHING EVEN THE VERY SMALLEST UNITS OF MEMBERS OF
THE HUMAN RACE TO VOTE BY MEANS OF MEETINGS AND AGREEMENTS BY GROUPS, WILL THEN
HAVE SERVED ITS PURPOSES AND WILL PLAY ITS PART THEN FOR THE LAST TIME BY A
UNANIMITY OF DESIRE TO MAKE CLOSE ACQUAINTANCE WITH US BEFORE CONDEMNING US.
5. TO SECURE THIS WE MUST HAVE EVERYBODY VOTE WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF CLASSES
AND QUALIFICATIONS, in order to establish an absolute majority, which cannot be
got from the educated propertied classes. In this way, by inculcating in all a
sense of self-importance, we shall destroy among the GOYIM the importance of the
family and its educational value and remove the possibility of individual minds
splitting off, for the mob, handled by us, will not let them come to the front
nor even give them a hearing; it is accustomed to listen to us only who pay it
for obedience and attention. In this way we shall create a blind, mighty force
which will never be in a position to move in any direction without the guidance
of our agents set at its head by us as leaders of the mob. The people will
submit to this regime because it will know that upon these leaders will depend
its earnings, gratifications and the receipt of all kinds of benefits.
6. A scheme of government should come ready made from one brain, because it
will never be clinched firmly if it is allowed to be split into fractional parts
in the minds of many. It is allowable, therefore, for us to have cognizance of
the scheme of action but not to discuss it lest we disturb its artfulness, the
interdependence of its component parts, the practical force of the secret
meaning of each clause. To discuss and make alterations in a labor of this kind
by means of numerous votings is to impress upon it the stamp of all
ratiocinations and misunderstandings which have failed to penetrate the depth
and nexus of its plottings. We want our schemes to be forcible and suitably
concocted. Therefore WE OUGHT NOT TO FLING THE WORK OF GENIUS OF OUR GUIDE to
the fangs of the mob or even of a select company.
7. These schemes will not turn existing institutions upside down just yet.
They will only effect changes in their economy and consequently in the whole
combined movement of their progress, which will thus be directed along the paths
laid down in our schemes.
8. Under various names there exists in all countries approximately one and
the same thing. Representation, Ministry, Senate, State Council, Legislative and
Executive Corps. I need not explain to you the mechanism of the relation of
these institutions to one another, because you are aware of all that; only take
note of the fact that each of the above-named institutions corresponds to some
important function of the State, and I would beg you to remark that the word "important"
I apply not to the institution but to the function, consequently it is not the
institutions which are important but their functions. These institutions have
divided up among themselves all the functions of government -- administrative,
legislative, executive, wherefore they have come to operate as do the organs in
the human body. If we injure one part in the machinery of State, the State falls
sick, like a human body, and ... will die.
9. When we introduced into the State organism the poison of Liberalism its
whole political complexion underwent a change. States have been seized with a
mortal illness -- blood poisoning. All that remains is to await the end of their
death agony.
10. Liberalism produced Constitutional States, which took the place of what
was the only safeguard of the GOYIM, namely, Despotism; and A CONSTITUTION, AS
YOU WELL KNOW, IS NOTHING ELSE BUT A SCHOOL OF DISCORDS, misunderstandings,
quarrels, disagreements, fruitless party agitations, party whims - in a word, a
school of everything that serves to destroy the personality of State activity.
THE TRIBUNE OF THE "TALKERICS" HAS, NO LESS EFFECTIVELY THAN THE
PRESS, CONDEMNED THE RULERS TO INACTIVITY AND IMPOTENCE, and thereby rendered
them useless and superfluous, for which reason indeed they have been in many
countries deposed. THEN IT WAS THAT THE ERA OF REPUBLICS BECOME POSSIBLE OF
REALIZATION; AND THEN IT WAS THAT WE REPLACED THE RULER BY A CARICATURE OF A
GOVERNMENT -- BY A PRESIDENT, TAKEN FROM THE MOB, FROM THE MIDST OF OUR PUPPET
CREATURES, OR SLAVES. This was the foundation of the mine which we have laid
under the GOY people, I should rather say, under the GOY peoples.
11. In the near future we shall establish the responsibility of presidents.
12. By that time we shall be in a position to disregard forms in carrying
through matters for which our impersonal puppet will be responsible. What do we
care if the ranks of those striving for power should be thinned, if there should
arise a deadlock from the impossibility of finding presidents, a deadlock which
will finally disorganize the country? ...
13. In order that our scheme may produce this result we shall arrange
elections in favor of such presidents as have in their past some dark,
undiscovered stain, some "Panama" or other -- then they will
be trustworthy agents for the accomplishment of our plans out of fear of
revelations and from the natural desire of everyone who has attained power,
namely, the retention of the privileges, advantages and honor connected with the
office of president. The chamber of deputies will provide cover for, will
protect, will elect presidents, but we shall take from it the right to propose
new, or make changes in existing laws, for this right will be given by us to the
responsible president, a puppet in our hands. Naturally, the authority of the
presidents will then become a target for every possible form of attack, but we
shall provide him with a means of self-defense in the right of an appeal to the
people, for the decision of the people over the heads of their representatives,
that is to say, an appeal to that some blind slave of ours -- the majority of
the mob. Independently of this we shall invest the president with the right of
declaring a state of war. We shall justify this last right on the ground that
the president as chief of the whole army of the country must have it at his
disposal, in case of need for the defense of the new republican constitution,
the right to defend which will belong to him as the responsible representative
of this constitution.
14. It is easy to understand them in these conditions the key of the shrine
will lie in our hands, and no one outside ourselves will any longer direct the
force of legislation.
15. Besides this we shall, with the introduction of the new republican
constitution, take from the Chamber the right of interpolation on government
measures, on the pretext of preserving political secrecy, and, further, we shall
by the new constitution reduce the number of representatives to a minimum,
thereby proportionately reducing political passions and the passion for
politics. If, however, they should, which is hardly to be expected, burst into
flame, even in this minimum, we shall nullify them by a stirring appeal and a
reference to the majority of the whole people ... Upon the president will depend
the appointment of presidents and vice-presidents of the Chamber and the Senate.
Instead of constant sessions of Parliaments we shall reduce their sittings to a
few months. Moreover, the president, as chief of the executive power, will have
the right to summon and dissolve Parliament, and, in the latter case, to prolong
the time for the appointment of a new parliamentary assembly. But in order that
the consequences of all these acts which in substance are illegal, should not,
prematurely for our plans, upon the responsibility established by use of the
president, WE SHALL INSTIGATE MINISTERS AND OTHER OFFICIALS OF THE HIGHER
ADMINISTRATION ABOUT THE PRESIDENT TO EVADE HIS DISPOSITIONS BY TAKING MEASURES
OF THEIR OWN, for doing which they will be made the scapegoats in his place ...
This part we especially recommend to be given to be played by the Senate, the
Council of State, or the Council of Ministers, but not to an individual
official.
16. The president will, at our discretion, interpret the sense of such of the
existing laws as admit of various interpretation; he will further annul them
when we indicate to him the necessity to do so, besides this, he will have the
right to propose temporary laws, and even new departures in the government
constitutional working, the pretext both for the one and the other being the
requirements for the supreme welfare of the State.
17. By such measure we shall obtain the power of destroying little by little,
step by step, all that at the outset when we enter on our rights, we are
compelled to introduce into the constitutions of States to prepare for the
transition to an imperceptible abolition of every kind of constitution, and then
the time is come to turn every form of government into OUR DESPOTISM.
18. The recognition of our despot may also come before the destruction of the
constitution; the moment for this recognition will come when the peoples,
utterly wearied by the irregularities and incompetence -- a matter which we
shall arrange for -- of their rulers, will clamor: "Away with them and
give us one king over all the earth who will unite us and annihilate the causes
of disorders -- frontiers, nationalities, religions, State debts -- who will
give us peace and quiet which we cannot find under our rulers and
representatives."
19. But you yourselves perfectly well know that TO PRODUCE THE POSSIBILITY OF
THE EXPRESSION OF SUCH WISHES BY ALL THE NATIONS IT IS INDISPENSABLE TO TROUBLE
IN ALL COUNTRIES THE PEOPLE'S RELATIONS WITH THEIR GOVERNMENTS SO AS TO UTTERLY
EXHAUST HUMANITY WITH DISSENSION, HATRED, STRUGGLE, ENVY AND EVEN BY THE USE OF
TORTURE, BY STARVATION, BY THE INOCULATION OF DISEASES, BY WANT, SO THAT THE
"GOYIM" SEE NO OTHER ISSUE THAN TO TAKE REFUGE IN OUR COMPLETE
SOVEREIGNTY IN MONEY AND IN ALL ELSE.
20. But if we give the nations of the world a breathing space the moment we
long for is hardly likely ever to arrive.
1. The State Council has been, as it were, the emphatic expression of the
authority of the ruler: it will be, as the "show" part of the
Legislative Corps, what may be called |
