We Took for a Prey to Ourselves
As Russia endured endless waves of executions and bloody terror, the Bolsheviks did not forget to "eat the spoil of thine enemies, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee.."
Marxism is a clever exploit of the powerful pull of “equality” on humans. It promises its ideological adherents a world of perfect equality, which Marx never attempted to measure in any way other than materialistically. Marx divided society into materialistically determined classes. On one side you had the capitalists, the merchants, the landowners, the bourgoisie. On the other side were the proletariat, the workers and peasants. The first class was rich, the second class was poor. The Church conspired with the first to pacify the second.
To bolster Rousseau’s claim that material inequality was a social injustice, Marx came up with the scientific-sounding “labor theory of value,” which argues that the value of something is not derived from a human evaluation of its usefulness or desirability, but is derived from the labor that produces it. But, explained Marx, the “owners of the means of production” underpay the labor for the value it produces and unjustly pocket the “surplus value” for themselves in a process called “exploitation.” The tool they use to enforce exploitation is “private property.” Eliminate private property and you eliminate exploitation. Everyone will own everything in common and share in the full value of the product of their labor. It’ll be just like a workers’ paradise and everyone will be equal. This was the inevitable endpoint of history, which, Marx demonstrated, was under the control of a mysterious, but also scientific-sounding, dialectical process. Getting there would require a revolutionary reordering of society and any tsars in the picture gotta go. The revolution may or may not be violent depending on the willingness of the parasite class to share their private property with everyone else.
Marxism and its Jewish proselytes in Russia divided Orthodox Russia into the proletariat and the bougeoisie and excited the hatred of the first for the second by “proving” that the reason they’re rich and you aren’t is because they’ve been exploiting you all this time. The hatred was called “class consciousness” and you could demonstrate you were class conscious, or, as the kids say, “woke,” by taking a stand against exploitation of the underprivileged proletariat. And once you understood that all of Russian history was a history of oppression and exploitation and anti-Semitism, how could you not be progressive in your view of the progress toward the inevitable revolution of the future when all that will disappear and everyone will be equal? Indeed, since the slaves in Russia were emancipated just two years before ours were, it was much more obvious to Russians in 1909 than it is to Americans in 2023 that the nation’s wealth was built on the backs of serfs in the first place, and that the inequality in wealth between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie was a legacy of that slavery. The confiscation of private property necessary to end human exploitation was, after all, only reparations for the especially grievous exploitation of the past. These landowners and merchants complaining they don’t want to lose their property need to check their privilege.
On the eve of World War I, writes Solzhenitsyn, the Russian intelligentsia had “adopted [the Jews’] vision of our history and how to get out of it.” While the Russian intelligentsia adopted a globalist outlook and “supported their persecuted brothers with all their souls,” the Jewish intelligentsia “did not deny its national identity” nor offer a word in defense of any Russian who might not deny his own. “But no one perceived this disparity: under the notion of equality of rights, the Jews understood something more.”1
So, with the masses inflamed by the rhetoric of class warfare and enticed with the carrot of reparations, the educated classes swept up in the progressive ideas of the day, and the Russian intelligentsia in submission to an ideology constructed by the Jewish intelligentsia, Russia’s destiny, all stone, approached.
One little known aspect of the Bolshevik revolution was the role played by international Jewry, in particular, by bankers, in helping bring about the revolution. From The International Jew:
What is the record? Documents printed by the United States Government contain this letter: Please note the date, the Jewish banker and the Jewish names:
“Stockholm, Sept. 21, 1917.
“To Mr. Raphael Scholan:
“Dear Comrade:—The banking house, M. Warburg, opened an account for the enterprise of Comrade Trotsky upon receipt of a telegram from the Chairman of the ‘Rhein-Westphalian Syndicate.’ A lawyer, probably Mr. Kestroff, obtained ammunition and organized the transportation of same, together with that of the money… to whom the sum demanded by Comrade Trotsky is to be handed.
“Fraternal Greetings!
“Furstenberg.”
Long before that, an American Jewish financier [Jacob Schiff] was supplying the funds which carried revolutionary propaganda to thousands of Russian prisoners of war in Japanese camps.
It is sometimes said, by way of explaining the Bolshevik movement, that it was financed from Germany, a fact which was seized upon to supply war propaganda. It is true that part of the money came from Germany. It is true that part of the money came from the United States. It is the whole truth that Jewish finance in all the countries was interested in Bolshevism as an All-Jewish investment. For the whole period of the war, the Jewish World Program was cloaked under this or that national name—the blame being laid on the Germans by the Allies, and on the Allies by the Germans, and the people kept in ignorance of who the real personages were.
It was stated by a French official that two millions of money was contributed by one Jewish banker alone.
When Trotsky left the United States to fulfill his appointed task, he was released from arrest at Halifax upon request of the United States, and everyone knows who constituted the War Government of the United States.
The conclusion, when all the facts are considered, is irresistible, that the Bolshevik revolution was a carefully groomed investment on the part of International Jewish Finance.2
But why would capitalists promote a communist revolution? They are arch enemies. From the International Jew again:
But the Jews have not destroyed capitalism in Russia. When Lenin and Trotsky make their farewell bow and retire under the protective influence of the Jewish capitalists of the world, it will be seen that only Gentile or Russian capital has been destroyed, and that Jewish capital has been enthroned.3
The author was off on the timing (it would be another 67 years before the communist boot was finally lifted off the Russian throat), but his prediction was correct. The collapse of communism brought a swarm of “consultants” to Russia to “help set up a free enterprise system.” When the dust cleared, Russia’s state-owned assets had been stripped out and bought for pennies on the dollar by the new, overwhelmingly Jewish oligarchs, and the Russian people had once again been reduced to abject poverty.
There is an interesting, but incomplete, summary of the laws4 the Bolsheviks passed during their first year that lists them in chronological order. On October 26, 1917, just three days after the Bolsheviks seized power, and while the fighting continued in St Petersburg, the Workers’ and Peasants’ Government was brought into being “in the persons of the Council of People’s Commissaries” and, on the same day, a Land Decree was issued that immediately and without compensation handed over all private, imperial, monastic, and ecclesiastical lands to the state, along with “all their dead and live stock” as well as “all buildings, appurtenances, and offices.” (Kind of weird they included mention of the cattle, specifically, isn’t it?)
The next day, all the newspapers were shut down (except their own). On November 3rd, they also prohibited paid advertisements (except their own). On Novenber 16th, they seized hospitals and medical buildings. On the 24th they abolished the courts, on the 28th the banks that served the interests of the nobility were abolished. On November 30th, all the agricultural equipment in the country was put under state monopoly. On December 13, a system of unemplyment insurance was set up and a grant of two million rubles was made to “the needs of the international revolutionary movement.” On December 15, they State took control of all education run by the Church. On the 17th, they nationalized the rest of the banks and directed their safe deposit boxes be opened for “examination.” And on it goes.
By the end of December, the CheKa was up and running and the Red Terror had begun. From this point, if you had anything worth stealing, you were declared an enemy of the people, executed, and your property “confiscated for the proletariat.” But it all had to be done legally, so we come to this law entered on May 1, 1918:
And how is this stolen property distributed to the proletariat? The process is described in The International Jew:
There are Russian Bolshevists in this country now, hawking about the streets of New York the gold cigaret cases which they stole from Russian families, and the family jewels, the wedding and birthday rings, which they filched from Russian women. Bolshevism never got further than the pawnshop and burglar’s “fence” idea.5
Communism, at bottom, is an ingenious method of dispossessing an entire population. The Bolshevik revolution began the dispossession by making all property the property of the state and ended with it eighty years later when that state property passed into the hands of international Jewry under the well-organized conspiracy—yes, conspiracy—of the Talmudic rabbinate, which has seized control of Judaism itself. And all the while, the rest of the West watched in dumb incomprehension as 66 million of their fellow Christians in Russia sank beneath the waves, and were drowned in an ocean of blood and torture.
It’s not like it’s a secret. It’s been right there in the Bible this whole time:
So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining. And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities... All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many. And we utterly destroyed them…utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city. But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.6
Oh yes, the cattle.
Ibid.
A Year in Soviet Russia: Brief Account of the Legislative Work of 1917-1918, The People’s Russian Information Bureau, London
Deuteronomy 3:3-6