Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Protocol 02

Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion

PROTOCOL NUMBER TWO

Protocol Number 2 : Economic Wars

1. It is indispensable for our purpose that wars, so far as
possible, should not result in territorial gains: war will
thus be brought on to the economic ground, where the nations
will not fail to perceive in the assistance we give the
strength of our predominance, and this state of things will
put both sides at the mercy of our international agentur;
which possesses millions of eyes ever on the watch and
unhampered by any limitations whatsoever. Our international
rights will then wipe out national rights, in the proper
sense of right, and will rule the nations precisely as the
civil law of States rules the relations of their subjects
among themselves.

2. The administrators,
whom we shall choose from among the public,
with strict regard to their capacities
for servile obedience,
will not be persons trained in the arts of government,
and will therefore
easily become pawns
in our game in the hands of men of learning and genius
who will be their advisers,
specialists bred and reared from early childhood
to rule the affairs of the whole world.

As is well known to you,
these specialists of ours
have been drawing to fit them for rule
the information they need
from our political plans
from the lessons of history,
from observations made
of the events of every moment as it passes.

The goyim are not guided by practical use
of unprejudiced historical observation,
but by theoretical routine without any critical regard
for consequent results.

We need not, therefore,
take any account of them
- let them amuse themselves
until the hour strikes,
or live on hopes of new forms
of enterprising pastime,
or on the memories of all they have enjoyed.

For them
let that play the principal part
which we have persuaded them to accept
as the dictates of science (theory).

It is with this object in view
that we are constantly,
by means of our press,
arousing a blind confidence in these theories.

The intellectuals of the goyim
will puff themselves up
with their knowledges
and without any logical verification of them
will put into effect all the information
available from science,
which our agentur specialists
have cunningly pieced together
for the purpose of educating their minds
in the direction we want.

3. Do not suppose for a moment
that these statements are empty words:
think carefully of the successes
we arranged for Darwinism, Marxism, Nietzsche-ism.

To us Jews, at any rate,
it should be plain to see
what a disintegrating importance
these directives have had
upon the minds of the goyim.

4. It is indispensable for us
to take account of the thoughts,
characters, tendencies of the nations
in order to avoid making slips in the political
and in the direction of administrative affairs.

The triumph of our system
of which the component parts of the machinery
may be variously disposed
according to the temperament of the peoples met on our way,
will fail of success
if the practical application of it
be not based upon a summing up
of the lessons of the past in the light of the present.

5. In the hands of the States of to-day
there is a great force
that creates the movement of thought
in the people, and that is the Press.

The part played by the Press
is to keep pointing our requirements
supposed to be indispensable,
to give voice to the complaints of the people,
to express and to create discontent.

It is in the Press
that the triumph of freedom of speech
finds its incarnation.

But the goyim States
have not known how to make use of this force;
and it has fallen into our hands.

Through the Press
we have gained the power to influence
while remaining ourselves in the shade;
thanks to the Press
we have got the fold in our hands,
notwithstanding that we have had to gather it
out of the oceans of blood and tears.

But it has paid us,
though we have sacrificed many of our people.
Each victim on our side
is worth in the sight of God a thousand goyim.