In 1974, a very perceptive lady named Taylor Caldwell wrote a
frighteningly insightful commentary (“The middle class must not fail or
all will be lost,” appearing first in The Review of the News,
a predecessor of The New American
) on the why of the preceding. Let’s let her paint the portrait with her own brush:
“With the rise of the industrial civilization in the
world, about 200 years ago, there also arose a social body which we know
as the middle class. Before that, most of the world suffered under a
feudal system in which the people were truly slaves of their
governments
in all things. There was no strong buffer between them and their
despotic rulers, no assurance of freedom to pursue commerce and to live
decently, to keep the fruits of their labor and hold the pain of tribute
at a minimum. The middle class made the dream of liberty a possibility,
set limits on the government, fought for its constitutions, removed
much of governmental privilege and tyranny, demanded that rulers obey
the just laws as closely as the people, and enforced a general civic
morality.
“Sound leaders looked to the experience of Rome, the first to
encourage a middle-class, noting that Rome had been a strong and
prosperous Republic, with much public virtue, a large degree of freedom
for every citizen, and a constitution (the Twelve Tables of Law) on
which our own is based. After the fall of Rome, governments had
everywhere destroyed the middle class, returned to despotism, and
entered the dark ages. It had been centuries since a rising middle class
resolved to keep government at a minimum and to force respect for the
people and eschew tribute except for such absolute necessities as armed
forces, street protection, and the guarantee of the authority of
contracts in commerce.
An international elite
“Those who for centuries have ruled their nations, from father to
son, in total despotism, realized that they were threatened. Were they
not the elite, by divine right? Were they not by birth and money
entitled to rule a nation of docile slaves? Did the people not
understand that they were truly inferior dogs who needed a strong hand
to rule them, and should they not be meek before their government?
“Little wonder that the elite hated the middle class which challenged
them in the name of God-given liberty. And little wonder that this
hatred grew deeper as the middle class became stronger and imposed
restrictions through which all the people, including the most humble,
had the right to rule their own lives and keep the greater part of what
they earned for themselves.
“Clearly, if the elites were to rule again, the middle class had to
be destroyed. It had to be destroyed so despotism and the system of
tribute could be returned, and grandeur and honor and immense riches for
the elite – assuring their monopoly rule of all the world. For you see
the elite of all nations, then as now, were not divided. They were one
international class, and worked together and protected each other. But
the middle class laughed and said, ‘We will bind you with the chains of
our Constitution, which you must obey also, lest we depose you, for we
now are powerful and we are human beings and we wish to be free from
your old despotism.’
“The elite did not give up. While it profited from the industrial
revolution which under liberty of enterprise freed the people from the
feudal and despotic systems, and which gave a new birth to the middle
class, it also hated the threat to its own authority. It did not wish to
destroy the industrial revolution; it wished to use it for its
exclusive purposes. In the early 19th century this elite looked for a
way, once and for all, to regain its power and extort tribute from the
people and so destroy the burgeoning middle class which stood in its
way, and to subdue the populaces again to their proper role as slaves of
government by the elite.
Conspiratorial advance
“Through the ‘League of Just Men,’ elitist conspirators sought a
fanatic to cloak the point of their purpose in slogans and attainment.
The man they hired was Karl Marx. Certainly Marx was no worker; he had
never soiled his hands with labor. He hated the middle class, which he
contemptuously called the bourgeoisie, for he considered himself
superior in mentality and breeding to what he called ‘the gross
merchants of commerce and exploitation.’ He did not attack the waiting
despots, no indeed. They were of one mind with him. Rather he proposed
in his books and pamphlets the return to government of the total power
to exact tribute from the people in order that the government might
better direct every phase of the people’s lives, as he asserted, ‘for
their own welfare.’ The elite, in turn, would control the governments.
“Marx began to accuse the middle class of heinous crimes and aroused
the workers against their benefactors. He labored to create envy and
malice among the workers – all aimed at the entrepreneurial middle
class, which had raised the them from serfdom, restored their human
dignity, and given them liberty for the first time in nearly 2,000
years.
“Karl Marx was made to order by the self-styled elite. They financed
the propagation of his sedition all over Europe and in America. They
bled France and Germany with it. They financed sedition in Russia. And
the plan began to succeed. By 1910 the Scandinavian countries had
already fallen to the socialism of Karl Marx. Only three nations stood
between the elite and their ambitions – the British Empire, czarist
Russia, and the United States of America.
“Much is now made of supposed czarist tyranny. But the fact is that
the czar of Russia had already granted his people a greater measure of
freedom. A constitution had been established, and a parliamentary
system. Russia, too, was well on her way to nourishing and encouraging a
middle class.
Hate and envy
“The elitists were anxious to promote the Marxist notion of demanding
tribute from the people, for only through forced tribute could freedom
be destroyed and the people reduced again to forced labor for the
benefit of the elite. Only thus could the middle class be eliminated.
So, we have Karl Marx’s infamous notion, ‘to each according to his
needs, from each according to his ability.’ That is a foundation for
slavery and tribute. Marx and the elite had a juicy bait for the
workers, who were deluded to envy and hate the middle class which had
freed them. If the riches were taken away from the middle class, then
the workers would become their equals. Marx called this redistribution
of wealth. Not wealth from the elite, with their vast fortunes in every
country of the world – inherited fortunes which would not be taxed as
income – but wealth from the strong middle class, which would be robbed
in the name of the people. Only earned income would be vulnerable to
seizure.
“But in the way of all this happiness for the conspiring
international elite, and the slavery of the people, stood the United
States, the British Empire, and czarist Russia. They would have to be
destroyed.” (To be continued …)
Hate and envy
The elitists were anxious to promote the Marxist notion of demanding
tribute from the people, for only through forced tribute could freedom
be destroyed and the people reduced again to forced labor for the
benefit of the elite. Only thus could the middle class be eliminated.
So, we have Karl Marx’s infamous notion, “to each according to his
needs, from each according to his ability.” That is a foundation for
slavery and tribute. Marx and the elite had a juicy bait for the
workers, who were deluded to envy and hate the middle class which had
freed them. If the riches were taken away from the middle class, then
the workers would become their equals. Marx called this redistribution
of wealth. Not wealth from the elite, with their vast fortunes in every
country of the world – inherited fortunes which would not be taxed as
income – but wealth from the strong middle class, which would be robbed
in the name of the people. Only earned income would be vulnerable to
seizure.
But in the way of all this happiness for the conspiring international
elite, and the slavery of the people, stood the United States, the
British Empire, and czarist Russia. They would have to be destroyed.
Britain had only a small income tax, used for the armed forces, for
roads, for the maintenance of law and order, and for the payment of a
tiny body of bureaucrats.
Over and over, in America, the elite tried to establish their federal
income tax, but they did not succeed. The people were too vigilant, too
jealous of their freedom, too proud, too respectful of themselves. They
embraced the ancient proverb, “to work is to pray,” and they guarded
the fruits of their labors. No, America had no graduated income tax to
drain the capital of the hard-working middle class, and so she became
strong and rich and powerful, the envy of nations which had exacted
tribute and forced labor from their people. Attempts were made to exact
such tribute from Americans during the Civil War and the war with Spain,
but each time the Supreme Court declared that our Constitution
prohibited it. As late as 1902 the graduated income tax was again
declared unconstitutional, and the Chief Justice observed: “It is a
method to enslave our people, and deprive them of their liberty and
right to the fruit of their labors.”
The conspiratorial elite fumed. How best, now, to institute their
system of tribute and slavery? The solution was war. During wartime,
governments were better able to tax the people, harnessing their
patriotism to maintain enlarged armed services.
And so the elite began to prepare America for war, and conspirators
of the French and German and Russian and English elite worked with them –
for the destruction of their own nationals and the elimination, once
and for all, of the defiant middle class. The American elite, under
advice of their brother conspirators in other nations, proposed an
amendment to the American Constitution – a graduated income tax, just as
Karl Marx had proposed. To support this the elite were very busy,
through their henchmen, the socialists and the populists, and through
their secret Communists, in arousing the envy of the workers against the
middle class. They told the workers that they would never be taxed,
“only the rich,” and even then the highest rate would be only 2 to 3%.
And the taxes would go to “our exploited workers,” through all sorts of
governmental benefits. The unthinking, the envious, the stupid, and the
malicious thought this was wonderful. They supported the 16th amendment –
the federal income tax – and it was passed into law in 1913.
Now the stage was set for war, the attack on the British Empire,
czarist Russia, and the German Empire. The major thrust of the effort to
destroy the freedom of the whole world, and reduce it to total control
by the elite, had begun. The rest is said contemporary history. Few in
America heeded what Thomas Jefferson had said long ago, that when we are
taxed on our earned incomes, in our food and our drink, in our coming
and going, in our property, we would face the return of slavery and the
reestablishment of an all-powerful and despotic elite. So it is that we
of the middle class are being destroyed through the exaction of tribute,
resulting in an ever-increasing power and despotism of a central
government controlled by a conspiratorial elite, and everlasting wars to
subdue us and drive us to our knees.
Never again?
Do not believe for an instant that the world’s conspiring elite in
every nation has so much as a serious quarrel among them. They have just
one object: control through tribute. Your slavery, through tribute, and
mine. And they use wars for their purposes just as they use the
inequities, harassments, bullying, capriciousness, and extortion of
their graduated income tax. The system of taxation with which they have
yoked us is really forced tribute from the hard-working and especially
from the middle class, who are slowly being eliminated.
Behind this attack are the self-styled elite, secure in their own
power and riches. Most of them have huge fortunes which are tax exempt.
But every man and woman of us – we of the middle class – are taxed in
our food and drink, in our property, in our incomes, in our comings and
goings. The harder we work, the more tribute we have to pay, for the
elite are determined never again will a middle-class challenge them, and
never again will we be able to save money and so rise to power, and
never again will we protest the slavery they have planned for us. But
many of us still dare to protest and will continue to do so while God
gives us breath. To be effective we know we must direct our attacks on
the real criminals, the wealthy and powerful and secret elite of all the
world – the conspirators laboring night and day to enslave us. Even our
own government is now their victim, for it is the conspiratorial elite
who choose our rulers, nominate them, and remove them by assassination
or smear.
I have fought these enemies of liberty in every book I have written.
But too few have listened to me, as too few have listened to others who
have warned of these conspirators. The hour is late, Americans must soon
listen and act or endure the black night of slavery that is worse than
death.
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