The Modern Times: The Plot Against Civilization pp. 323-327

 

It is a good thing that this book is wrapping up because Webster is all over the place now. Last week I hypothesized that Webster was beginning to end this book when someone handed her an English copy of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion which had just been published in England. She had to work extra hard to write that forgery into her book while at the same time discrediting it because she’s so racist against Germans that it actually overrides her anti-Semitism. Perhaps 1918 was just a different time.

An important thing to remember about this time is that racism isn’t just about skin color. That aspect of racism still exists but there is also the racism against ethnic groups as well. When Webster attacks Germans, it’s racist—it’s just not what we are used to. Webster hates anyone that isn’t Anglo, Napoleanic French, or Bakunin specifically. Her book has to do the conspiracy theory move of making us afraid of the imminent future, so she has to look at the most immediate past.

She’s got to find examples of the world revolution kicking up over the globe (well actually just Western Europe) in the interwar period. To add to her difficulty she also needs to get the Germans in on every plot. If you’re wondering why, me too.

Webster begins discussing the Germans directly. Her position is that the Germans are responsible for the USSR because the Germans put Vlad Lenin on a train from Switzerland and sent him to Russia, as well as “The Jew Radek.” In conspiracy circles this is a famous story that gets repeated frequently. Usually there is a train car of gold as well, but we don’t get that here. Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History episode of this event described it as in intellectual atomic bomb. Webster is going to pretend that there was some nefarious reason the Germans allows Lenin to travel through their territory in a time of war…and there was, Lenin arriving in Russia utterly destabilized Germany’s Eastern front enemy. There’s no mystery beyond that. To claim that the “German officers organized the Bolshevik armies” requires more stretching. There was a half-German half-Russian officer named Pyotr Wrangel who fought for the Russians and during the civil war was a member of the Whites—the revolutionary group that opposed the Blacks, which was led by Lenin’s people. This must be where she is getting her information but this is odd as Wrangel was anti-Bolshevik. He was every bit the fascist totalitarian the Webster supports; but there is no indication that the Germans helped defeat him.

“It was also the Germans who fanned the flames of the civil war now raging in Ireland.” Here, Webster is referring to something known as the “German Plot.” This is where there was an accusation by a captured Irish revolutionary named Joseph Dowling. Dowling told his English captors that he had been to Germany looking for support for the Irish Revolutionary Easter Uprising of 1916. Dowling further added that the Germans were going to invade England.

Dowling is likely not lying about the reasons he would have been in contact with Germany. Eamon de Valera, one of the leaders of the IRA and the country’s first president, traveled to the United States to get support from Woodrow Wilson (he would denied that support). The rest of it is likely Dowling feeding the British something in order to get a light sentence. The British would arrest 150 members of Sinn Fein to stop an invasion that was never coming.

Webster claims that the Germans took Sinn Fein, originally a national and religious movement and turned them into the revolutionary movement that it become famous for. No, Sinn Fein was never just a national and religious movement. It was national in the fact that it was founded to unite the various Irish nationalist movements seeking to gain independence from the UK; and it was religious in that the Irish are generally Catholic; but to call them a mere national and religious organization is not accurate.

She tries to say that the movement in Ireland in 1920 is modelled on the Illuminati; however she could provide some evidence for this outlandish claim. IRA general Michael Collins would eventually invent a lot of guerilla and terrorist tactics that other groups would emulate. The Illuminati were not a combative organization and would not be capable of those types of actions given that they only existed in the 18^th century before guns and explosives made things easier. She goes so far out of her way to excuse Sinn Fein from wrongdoing that she excises them from some chart that is supposed to be in this book (I’m looking forward to this chart).

Then she ties in Poland claiming that Polish independence is another arm of the grand conspiracy that originates not from Russia or the Jews, but from those dastardly Germans. She has an uncited source explaining that the Germans gave Lenin 70,000,000 marks for “agitation in the allied countries” I don’t know about the number but if that allied country is Russia, then it’s not a secret or a mystery.

I’ve criticized this book for never giving me the source of the conspiracy. Webster has danced around it this entire time, but now we have it—Germans. The Germans are responsible for all of it. German professors openly avow their atheism; which as someone who has read plenty of German philosophers you can have them back.

If we discuss the “International Jew” Webster explains, “is not in reality international at all; he is first a Jew and then a German – sometimes indeed he is a German first.” A contradiction: that earns an immediate “F” on an assignment in my course.

She also explains that Lenin is dumb. He’s not original, he just read a few books, adapted those ideas to his own ideology, and then he put all of that down in his own words. Where, she asks, “do we find a hint of genius or even of original thought?”

Oh, no, I’m doing that right now. I’m reading someone else’s ideas, interpreting them, and then writing my interpretations down. Wait, she’s doing that as well. She’s taking other people’s ideas…this is how we know that Webster is either a deeply unserious person or a complete idiot who has let her irrational hate override any rational thought. All academic writers, even wannabees like Webster, do what she’s accusing Lenin of.

Everything can be tied back to the German people, after all, Weishaupt himself was a German. So, the center of the great web of conspiracy is eating Sauer Kraut and Brats during Octoberfest. Is it all Germans? Probably not. If we remember from earlier when Webster was just being anti-Semitic it was never all Jews either. We have a core, but that core needs a core. There needs to be someone or some group at the center of the German plot. This, I’m afraid she is unlikely to ever answer.