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is withdrawn from the land by industry will slip through the hands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.
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
looseness 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.
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 unconditional 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
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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