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Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion

Protocol Number 5 : Despotism And Modern Progress

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 loseness 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.

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.

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 empy
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 labryinth 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.

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.