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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.
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 inculcation 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.
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
misunderstanding which have failed to penetrate the depth and nexus of it 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.
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.
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 machinery of State, the State falls sick, like a
human body, and will die.
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.
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 “talkeries” 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 became possible of realization; and then it
was that we replaced the ruler by a caricature of a government – by a president, taken from
