PROTOCOLS OF THE
MEETINGS
OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION
PROTOCOL No.
1
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; after words - 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.
GOLD
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.
RIGHT IS
MIGHT
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.
WE ARE
DESPOTS
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.
WE SHALL END
LIBERTY
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.
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PROTOCOL No.
2
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.
DESTRUCTIVE
EDUCATION
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.
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PROTOCOL No.
3
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.
POVERTY OUR
WEAPON
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.
WE SUPPORT
COMMUNISM
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. (The Biblical
"Anti-Christ?")
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.
JEWS WILL BE
SAFE
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.
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PROTOCOL No.
4
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.
WE SHALL DESTROY
GOD
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.
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PROTOCOL No.
5
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.
MASSES LED BY
LIES
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.
MONOPOLY
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 (European Common Market?). 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.
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PROTOCOL No.
6
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.
WE SHALL ENSLAVE
GENTILES
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.
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PROTOCOL No.
7
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.
UNIVERSAL
WAR
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.
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PROTOCOL No.
8
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 (Rhode Scholers?). 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.
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PROTOCOL No.
9
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.
JEWISH
SUPER-STATE
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 (European Common
Market??).
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.
CHRISTIAN YOUTH
DESTROYED
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.
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PROTOCOL No.
10
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!" ...
OUR GOAL - WORLD
POWER
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.
POISON OF
LIBERALISM
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.
WE NAME
PRESIDENTS
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.
WE SHALL
DESTROY
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.
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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 the editorial committee of the laws
and decrees of the ruler.
2. This, then, is the program
of the new constitution. We shall make Law, Right and Justice
(1) in the guise of proposals to the Legislative Corps,
(2) by decrees of the president under the guise of
general regulations, of orders of the Senate and of resolutions
of the State Council in the guise of ministerial orders,
(3) and in case a suitable occasion should arise - in
the form of a revolution in the State.
3. Having established
approximately the MODUS AGENDI we will occupy ourselves
with details of those combinations by which we have still to
complete the revolution in the course of the machinery of State
in the direction already indicated. By these combinations I
mean the freedom of the Press, the right of association,
freedom of conscience, the voting principle, and many another
that must disappear for ever from the memory of man, or undergo
a radical alteration the day after the promulgation of the new
constitution. It is only at the moment that we shall be able at
once to announce all our orders, for, afterwards, every
noticeable alteration will be dangerous, for the following
reasons: if this alteration be brought in with harsh severity
and in a sense of severity and limitations, it may lead to a
feeling of despair caused by fear of new alterations in the
same direction; if, on the other hand, it be brought in a sense
of further indulgences it will be said that we have recognized
our own wrong-doing and this will destroy the prestige of the
infallibility of our authority, or else it will be said that we
have become alarmed and are compelled to show a yielding
disposition, for which we shall get no thanks because it will
be supposed to be compulsory ... Both the one and the other are
injurious to the prestige of the new constitution. What we want
is that from the first moment of its promulgation, while the
peoples of the world are still stunned by the accomplished fact
of the revolution, still in a condition of terror and
uncertainty, they should recognize once for all that we are so
strong, so inexpugnable, so super-abundantly filled with power,
that in no case shall we take any account of them, and so far
from paying any attention to their opinions or wishes, we are
ready and able to crush with irresistible power all expression
or manifestation thereof at every moment and in every place,
that we have seized at once everything we wanted and shall in
no case divide our power with them ... Then in fear and
trembling they will close their eyes to everything, and be
content to await what will be the end of it all.
WE ARE
WOLVES
4. The GOYIM are a flock
of sheep, and we are their wolves. And you know what happens
when the wolves get hold of the flock? ....
5. There is another reason also
why they will close their eyes: for we shall keep promising
them to give back all the liberties we have taken away as soon
as we have quelled the enemies of peace and tamed all parties
....
6. It is not worth to say
anything about how long a time they will be kept waiting for
this return of their liberties ....
7. For what purpose then have
we invented this whole policy and insinuated it into the minds
of the GOY without giving them any chance to examine its
underlying meaning? For what, indeed, if not in order to obtain
in a roundabout way what is for our scattered tribe
unattainable by the direct road? It is this which has served as
the basis for our organization of SECRET MASONRY WHICH IS
NOT KNOWN TO, AND AIMS WHICH ARE NOT EVEN SO MUCH AS SUSPECTED
BY, THESE "GOY" CATTLE, ATTRACTED BY US INTO THE
"SHOW" ARMY OF MASONIC LODGES IN ORDER TO THROW DUST IN
THE EYES OF THEIR FELLOWS.
8. God has granted to
us, His Chosen People, the gift of the dispersion, and
in this which appears in 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.
9. There now remains not much
more for us to build up upon the foundation we have
laid.
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1. The word "freedom,"
which can be interpreted in various ways, is defined by us as
follows -
2. Freedom is the right to do
what which the law allows. This interpretation of the word will
at the proper time be of service to us, because all freedom
will thus be in our hands, since the laws will abolish or
create only that which is desirable for us according to the
aforesaid program.
3. We shall deal with the press
in the following way: what is the part played by the press
to-day? It serves to excite and inflame those passions which
are needed for our purpose or else it serves selfish ends of
parties. It is often vapid, unjust, mendacious, and the
majority of the public have not the slightest idea what ends
the press really serves. We shall saddle and bridle it with a
tight curb: we shall do the same also with all productions of
the printing press, for where would be the sense of getting rid
of the attacks of the press if we remain targets for pamphlets
and books? The produce of publicity, which nowadays is a source
of heavy expense owing to