Protocol 1: The Basic Doctrine: “Right Lies in Might”
This protocol asserts that power and control are the primary objectives, with “might” being the ultimate justification for domination. It describes how deception and manipulation of political systems are acceptable tools for achieving influence over nations.
Protocol 2: Economic Wars and Control of Political Entities
This section discusses using economic crises to control nations, arguing that manipulating finances can influence political leaders and weaken governments, making them dependent.
Protocol 3: Methods of Conquest
Here, the supposed “elders” advocate for fostering unrest, manipulating social classes against each other, and promoting instability to weaken governments and create a need for centralized power.
Protocol 4: Materialism Replaces Religion
This protocol suggests undermining religious institutions and promoting materialistic values to create moral decay and reduce resistance to control.
Protocol 5: Despotism and Modern Progress
This chapter describes a vision of governance based on absolute power, suggesting that leaders manipulate the concepts of “progress” and “freedom” to justify increasingly authoritarian control.
Protocol 6: Taking Control of Land, Labor, and Capital
This protocol discusses a strategy to monopolize resources, including land, labor, and capital, to gain control over economic systems and reduce the populace to dependency.
Protocol 7: World-Wide Wars
It outlines a supposed plan to provoke wars, particularly targeting alliances between powerful nations, to weaken military and economic power worldwide, leading to easier control.
Protocol 8: Control of the Press
This protocol claims the need to control media and information, using press and publishing outlets to manipulate public opinion, suppress dissent, and promote specific narratives.
Protocol 9: Re-Education
The “elders” supposedly intend to reshape education to teach obedience, discourage critical thinking, and instill loyalty to authoritarian principles, claiming this would solidify control over future generations.
Protocol 10: Preparation for Power
This protocol outlines a gradual strategy to introduce a centralized authority, suggesting incremental steps toward absolute power by exploiting weaknesses in existing political systems.
Protocol 11: The Constitution of Autocracy
Here, the supposed authors advocate for centralized, autocratic governance, suggesting that democratic systems will be subverted to create dependency on a single ruling power.
Protocol 12: Control of Public Opinion
This section emphasizes total control over public discourse, suggesting that managing all forms of media will prevent resistance to the supposed rulers.
Protocol 13: Distracting the Masses
The protocol advocates for using entertainment, meaningless “progressive” reforms, and trivial pursuits to distract the populace from meaningful political engagement.
Protocol 14: Destruction of Religion and Replacement with Materialism
The “elders” are depicted as seeking to erode religious belief, replacing it with secular, materialistic values to weaken moral resistance to their plans.
Protocol 15: Ruthless Suppression
This chapter discusses harsh measures against opposition, including censorship, surveillance, and punishment for dissent, to maintain order and control.
Protocol 16: Brainwashing
This protocol describes a strategy for manipulating education, focusing on eradicating critical thinking and fostering loyalty to the ruling power.
Protocol 17: Abolition of Free Speech
Here, the supposed plan includes curtailing freedom of speech and limiting individuals’ ability to organize or protest, to ensure unquestioned rule.
Protocol 18: Assassination of Opposition
This protocol advocates for the elimination of those who resist or threaten the ruling power, including political and social leaders.
Protocol 19: Rule by Fear
This chapter outlines a strategy of using fear as a tool to control the masses, employing terror tactics to suppress rebellion.
Protocol 20: Control of Money
The “elders” supposedly plan to monopolize financial systems, creating dependency on their wealth and power while indebting nations and individuals.
Protocol 21: Loans and Credit Manipulation
This protocol describes manipulating loans and debt to control governments and individuals, rendering them financially dependent.
Protocol 22: Supreme World Power
This chapter lays out a vision of a global government ruled by a centralized authority, eliminating independent nations.
Protocol 23: Instilling Obedience and Submission
This section emphasizes psychological manipulation to make the populace obedient and unquestioning, weakening their will to resist.
Protocol 24: Preparation for the Messiah
The final protocol introduces the idea of a future “Messiah” who will supposedly establish global dominion, completing the plans laid out in previous chapters.
