Lessons of History

The Barruel and Robison exposures unintentionally gave the blueprints for those wed to Robespierre's brand of state socialism to use Illuminist systems to guarantee success. These exposures also inadvertently fed dreams of a libertarian communism which socialist revolutionaries in the 1840's used as bait. It became a perfect political bait-and-switch -- offering utmost liberty ("withering away of the state") obtained by passage through a "dictatorship of the proletariat." This maxim urged as necessary an anti-libertarian system --- state-socialism -- as the means to reach the final dream of a stateless society. Thus, the modern delusion was born that the utmost liberty could emerge from the most totalitarian systems.

Hence, the current politics of our day directly are influenced by the successful hijacking in 1793 by Robespierre of the liberal and pro-libertarian Revolutions of 1789 and 1792. The historians who continue to portray Robespierre's socialistic policies as left and liberal have let down the ones who truly earned the right to be called left and liberal: the Illuminati agents at the Cercle Social such as Bonneville, Brissot, Condorcet, Paine, etc.

Robespierre's socialistic anti-liberal agenda thus should be regarded as extreme right wing. Then the original meaning of left and liberal (less government, less taxes, freedoms guaranteed, etc.) might one day be restored so that the common man will recognize his friends and distinguish them from his enemies.

And, of course, this correction to outlook would repair the mistaken impression that the Illuminati of Bavaria were precursors of modern totalitarians who aimed to create a one-world government. Instead, as Bancal's Correctif to the Revolution (in the rare book section on this site) proves, the Cercle Social said they favored a world republic of independent states whose disputes would be mediated by a world-court. Bancal opposed strongly a one-world government as a danger to liberty.

The true origin of the totalitarian vision of a one-world government, operated on socialistic principles, is with Filippo Buonarroti [see Wikipedia], not the Illuminati. In the early 1800's, Buonarroti led/founded the Carbonari which spawned organizations which later in the 1800's sponsored socialistic revolutions. Buonarroti's program made no apologies for its aim to abrogate human liberty. He envisioned a permanent "dictatorship of liberty" to seal his utopian system labelled as communistic but which in reality was an austere Spartan system of total control which levelled all wealth. All humans on earth would not be permitted to have more than their bare necessities for living in exchange for those necessities being guaranteed by the state. See Buonarroti, The Conspiracy of Equals (1828). It is Buonarroti's ideas and secret societies which spawned a misguided 'liberalism' and deluded 'left' who are working against freedom today, exchanging liberty for a fantasy that 100% security against all suffering can be achieved by a well-meaning all-powerful state.