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The word “freedom” brings out the communities of men to fight against every kind of farce,
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.
The beasts, it is true, fall asleep again every time when they have drunk their fill of blood,
and at such times can easily be riveted into their chains. But if they be not given blood they
will not sleep and continue to struggle.
PROTOCOL 4
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 too 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
expending its resources on the rewarding of long service.
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 and unknown
mystery.
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 of God, upon the
brotherhood of humanity, unconnected with the conception of equality, which is negative 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 minds of the goyim the very principle of Godhead and the spirit, and to put in its
place arithmetical calculations and material needs.
In order to give the goyim 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.
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
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
