Structure and themes
The 24 Protocols are posited as instructions to a new Elder, outlining how the group will control the world. The Elders want to trick all "gentile nations", whom they call "goyim", into doing their will. Their preferred methods include:
| |
| Protocol | Theme |
|---|
| 1 | | Alcoholism, Annihilation of the privileges of the non-Jewish aristocracy, among other topics. |
| 2, 9, 12 | The propagation of ideas, such as Darwinism, Marxism, Nietzsche-ism, Liberalism, Socialism, Communism, Anarchism, and Utopianism, with the task of undermining established forms of order. | |
| 4 | Materialism |
| 5 | World government |
| 7 | World wars | |
| 10 | Staging catastrophes against one's own people, then claiming a moral high ground for leverage (False flag) |
| 11 | Universal suffrage |
| 11, 12, 17 | | Curtailment of civil liberties with the excuse of defeating the enemies of peace |
| 13 | Creating the impression of the existence of freedom of press, freedom of speech, human rights and democracy, all of which are subsequently undermined and become mere illusions or deceptive smokescreens behind which actual oppression lies | |
| 14 | Distractions |
| 14, 17 | Pornographic literature |
| 16 | The destruction of Christianity, Islam and other religions and cultures, followed by a transitional stage of atheism, followed finally by the hegemony of Judaism | |
| 20 | Brainwashing |
| 21 | Economic depressions |
| 22 | Undermining financial systems by foreign loans, creating national bankruptcy, destroying Money Markets and replacing them with government credit institutions | |
| 23 | Justification of previous acts of evil and expectation of a great new society |
| 24 | Reduction of the manufacture of articles of luxury, destruction of large manufacturers, prohibition of alcohol and hashish, unleashing forces of violence under the mask of principles of freedom, only to have the 'King of the Jews' demolish those very forces to make him appear a saviour | |
| 25 | Training of the king, direct heirs, irreproachability of exterior morality of the King of the Jews |
Control of the media and finance would replace the traditional sources of social order with one based on mass manipulation and state engineered propaganda, where powerful elites and institutions conspire to conceal unpalatable truths from the masses. In these respects, the Protocols draws on long-standing criticisms of modernity, radicalism and capitalism, but presents them as part of an orchestrated plot, rather than as a product of impersonal historical processes...