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Protocols of the Learned
Elders of Zion
Translated by Victor E. Marsden
PROTOCOL 3: METHODS
OF CONQUEST
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.
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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