13-10-2008, 07:24 PM
I have long thought that Lloyd Miller had it correct regarding the origins of the “Protocols.” I believe there is more in his materials, but here are the two quotes from the old A-Albionic book catalog (ca 1995) for starters.
[COLOR="Blue"]The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion by ? or The Learned Elders of Zion, ?...
The "Protocols" are, of course, classic in their field. Originally, distributed by the Czar's secret police and used to stir the populace into frenzied anti-Semitic pogroms, it was later picked-up by Hitler and used to buttress the anti-Semitic passions that brought him to power. Though it contains profound pieces of Machiavellian insight that are well worth reading and considering, it contains rather obvious pieces of propaganda for "Throne and Altar" style statism of the "Ancient Regime" that betray its fraudulent origins. It is clearly plagiarized from Maurice Joly's Dialogues in Hell. That is where the "good parts" came from....
Dialogues in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu: Or the Policies of Machiavelli in the Nineteenth Century--"Soon will be seen a frightful calm, during which all will reunite against the infringing power of the laws. When Sulla desired to restore liberty to Rome, she was no longer able to harbor it." (Montesquieu, Espirit des Louis) by Maurice Joly, 1864…
The "Dialogues" are, of course, the actual source from which Czarist fanatics plagiarized the brilliant parts of the "Protocols." the anti-Semitic parts were all added by the Czarist agents--Joly in no way saw the Machiavellian techniques which were the subject of his covert exposè as tools of "Jewish" power over gentiles. Last gasp defenders of the Protocols such as Nesta Webster have asked where Joly obtained his information, as if the Machiavellian ideas he expressed in such a romantic original fashion were in any way new or unknown. Of course, the elitist philosophy and techniques of exploiting the masses behind a mask of humanitarianism, justice, liberty, and democracy are as old as history albeit the naive of each generation are always shocked when first exposed to them. Joly explains himself well enough in his preface: "This book has characteristics that can be applied to all governments, but its goal is more exact; it personifies on particular political system (obviously Napoleon III's regime--Editor) which has not varied once in its methods since the fatal and alas! already too distant date of its enthronement...opinion in modern nations is too regimented to accept violent truths about contemporary affairs. The supernatural duration of certain successes is, moreover, making for the corruption of honesty itself; but the public conscience is still alive and providence will one fine day interfere in the game being played against it. One judges better certain facts and certain principles when one sees them outside of the framework in which they usually exist in our sight; the change in point-of-view sometimes terrifies the eyes!"[/COLOR]
[COLOR="Blue"]The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion by ? or The Learned Elders of Zion, ?...
The "Protocols" are, of course, classic in their field. Originally, distributed by the Czar's secret police and used to stir the populace into frenzied anti-Semitic pogroms, it was later picked-up by Hitler and used to buttress the anti-Semitic passions that brought him to power. Though it contains profound pieces of Machiavellian insight that are well worth reading and considering, it contains rather obvious pieces of propaganda for "Throne and Altar" style statism of the "Ancient Regime" that betray its fraudulent origins. It is clearly plagiarized from Maurice Joly's Dialogues in Hell. That is where the "good parts" came from....
Dialogues in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu: Or the Policies of Machiavelli in the Nineteenth Century--"Soon will be seen a frightful calm, during which all will reunite against the infringing power of the laws. When Sulla desired to restore liberty to Rome, she was no longer able to harbor it." (Montesquieu, Espirit des Louis) by Maurice Joly, 1864…
The "Dialogues" are, of course, the actual source from which Czarist fanatics plagiarized the brilliant parts of the "Protocols." the anti-Semitic parts were all added by the Czarist agents--Joly in no way saw the Machiavellian techniques which were the subject of his covert exposè as tools of "Jewish" power over gentiles. Last gasp defenders of the Protocols such as Nesta Webster have asked where Joly obtained his information, as if the Machiavellian ideas he expressed in such a romantic original fashion were in any way new or unknown. Of course, the elitist philosophy and techniques of exploiting the masses behind a mask of humanitarianism, justice, liberty, and democracy are as old as history albeit the naive of each generation are always shocked when first exposed to them. Joly explains himself well enough in his preface: "This book has characteristics that can be applied to all governments, but its goal is more exact; it personifies on particular political system (obviously Napoleon III's regime--Editor) which has not varied once in its methods since the fatal and alas! already too distant date of its enthronement...opinion in modern nations is too regimented to accept violent truths about contemporary affairs. The supernatural duration of certain successes is, moreover, making for the corruption of honesty itself; but the public conscience is still alive and providence will one fine day interfere in the game being played against it. One judges better certain facts and certain principles when one sees them outside of the framework in which they usually exist in our sight; the change in point-of-view sometimes terrifies the eyes!"[/COLOR]