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 tactics of semi-swindling
tricks; where looseness reigns: where morality is maintained by
penal measures and harsh laws but not by voluntary accepted principles:
where the feelings towards faith and country are obliterated 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 centralisation 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.
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
it is.
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.
Moreover, the art of directing masses and individuals by means
of cleverly manipulated theory and verbiage, 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
organisation, while we ourselves all the while have kept our secret
organisation 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.
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.
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 yet
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.
Capital, if it is to co-operate untrammelled, 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 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 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 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.
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 NO- THING 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 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 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 organisation will be of such colossal dimensions
that it cannot fail to subdue all the nations of the world.