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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 catch up and interpret the ideas of others to suit
ourselves than to eradicate them.
The principal 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
eloquence.
In all ages the peoples 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.
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.
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 a 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 matter political, which is not given to the
public to understand, because they are understood only by him who guides the public. This
is the first secret.
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 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 action saps the
forces when it meets with the freedom of another. From this collision arise grave moral
shocks, disenchantments, failures. By all these means we shall so wear down the goyim
that they will be compelled to offer us international power of a nature that by its position will
enable us without any violence gradually to absorb all the State forces of the world and to
form a Super-Government.
In place of the rulers of today 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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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…
You gentlemen here present who are economists, just strike on estimate of the significance
of this combination!
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.
