Engagement: The Plot Against Civilization pp. 137-139
There is never a dialogue in which people like Webster attempt to understand the people that they vilify. She has no recognition of the principles that she is fighting against beyond the stereotypes of them. This is why reading this chapter becomes so difficult. Webster name drops all of these proto-socialist thinkers, calls them tools of the Illuminati, but she never explains what the ideology that they are professing is doing to harm society. We are missing the point where she explains what is so dangerous about these movements. In cases where she does say so and so did a bad thing—it’s difficult to say that it was because they were proto-socialists rather that they were like Robespierre and were Tyrants using their ideologies as an excuse to draw more power to themselves. Our enemy in today’s section is trade unionism. She calls this a “ new and mysterious power,” which is an odd take considering the origin of the Freemasons was as originally as a trade union. The problem in W...