Chapter Three: The Naked Capitalist by W. Cleon Skousen: How the World Really Works by Alan B. Jones from Third World Traveler

Chapter Three: The Naked Capitalist by W. Cleon Skousen: How the World Really Works by Alan B. Jones from Third World Traveler

from the book
The Naked Capitalist
by W. Cleon Skousen
1970
(which is a review of Carroll Quigley's 1966 book Tragedy and Hope)

p45
Cleon Skousen quoting Carroll Quigley

During the past two centuries when the peoples of the world were gradually winning their political freedom from the dynastic monarchies, the major banking families of Europe and America were actually reversing the trend by setting up new dynasties of political control through the formation of international financial combines... these banking dynasties had learned that all governments must have sources of revenue from which to borrow in times of emergency. They had also learned that by providing such funds from their own private resources, they could make both kings and democratic leaders tremendously subservient to their will. It had proven to be a most effective means of controlling political appointments and deciding political issues.

p46
Cleon Skousen

The "international" (or "merchant" or "private" or "investment") bankers differ from legitimate commercial or savings bankers, particularly regarding the former's preoccupation with handling government debt, and its efforts to convince both government and business that the bankers could manage government debt better than government could.

p47
Cleon Skousen

The dynastic 'banker families' in England had established their monopoly control over finance by setting up the Bank of England as a privately controlled institution which had the appearance of an official government institution. Similar centers of financial control had been set up in France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland.

p47
Cleon Skousen quoting Carroll Quigley

The international bankers intended to use the financial power of Britain and the United States to force all the major countries to operate "through central banks free from all political control, with all questions of international finance to be settled by agreements by such central banks without interference from governments.

p48
Cleon Skousen quoting Carroll Quigley

The goals of the dynastic bankers have been nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalistic fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. he apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporation.

p48
Cleon Skousen quoting Carroll Quigley

The goals of the dynastic bankers as been nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalistic fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. he apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporation. Each central bank, in the hands of men like Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, Benjamin Strong of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, Charles Rist of the Bank of France, and Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbank, sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world.

p49
Cleon Skousen

There is a growing volume of evidence that the highest centers of political and economic power have been forcing the entire human race toward a global, socialist, dictatorial-oriented society.
And what has been most baffling about it has been the fact that this drift toward dictatorship with its inevitable obliteration of a thousand years of struggle toward human freedom, is being plotted, promoted, and implemented by the leaders of free nations and the super-rich of those nations whose positions of affluence would seem to make them the foremost beneficiaries of the free enterprise, property-oriented, open society in which so much progress has been made.

p49
Cleon Skousen

The world hierarchy of the dynastic superrich is out to take over the entire planet, doing it with Socialistic legislation where possible, but having no reluctance to use Communist revolution where necessary.

p51
Cleon Skousen

Power from any source tends to create an appetite for additional power. Power coming from wealth tends to create an appetite for political power, and vice versa. It was almost inevitable that the superrich would one day aspire to control not only their own wealth, but the wealth of the whole world. To achieve this, they were perfectly willing to feed the ambitions of the power-hungry political conspirators who were committed to the overthrow of all existing governments, and the establishment of a central world-wide dictatorship along socialist lines.

This, of course, was a risky business for the Anglo-American secret society. The super-rich were gambling on the expectation that when the violence and reconstruction had been completed by the political conspirators, the super-rich would then take over ... to guide mankind hopefully and compulsively into a whole new era of universal peace and universal prosperity.

To take such a risk, the cadre of the super-rich had to ignore the most elementary aspects of the ferocity of the left-wing conspiratorial mentality. Mao Tse-tung has articulated the basic Communist conviction that political power comes from the barrel of a gun, and once they seize control it is their expressed intention to use the gun to prevent the super-rich or anyone else from taking that control away from them. [Similarly, Hitler repeatedly told Britain that he intended to realize his goals by going to war, not by diplomatic negotiation.

p51
Cleon Skousen

The secret society of the London-Wall Street [banking] axis ... [has] attempted to control the global conspiratorial groups by feeding them vast quantities of money for their revolutionary work, and then financing their opposition if they seemed to be getting out of control.

p53
Rene Wormser, in the book 'Foundations: Their Power and Influence'

Foundations use their funds to subvert and control American education.

p54
Rene Wormser, in the book 'Foundations: Their Power and Influence'

By 1956 the Ford Foundation had spent more than one billion dollars in contributions to 'education' and had thereby become a well-nigh all-encompassing influence over hundreds of colleges and universities.

p55
Cleon Skousen

Official Ford Foundation reports show that millions upon millions are being poured into revolutionary, communist-dominated or global collectivist organizations under the direction of McGeorge Bundy.

p56
Cleon Skousen

[Bilderberg Group meetings] are held each year as an international master planning conclave. They are secret and attendance is restricted to invited 'guests.' These turn out to be about 100 men from the top inner circle representing the four major dimensions of power: the international banking dynasties, their corporations involved in vast, international enterprises, the American tax-exempt foundations, and the establishment representatives who have gained high offices in government, especially the United States government. These conferences always have the same chairman - his royal highness Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, who, with his family, owns a massive fortune in the Royal Dutch Shell Oil Corporation. Then, close at hand, will always be David Rockefeller representing his family and especially Standard Oil of New Jersey which is one of the largest corporate structures in existence. It is interesting that in the past two decades when political revolutions have occurred in various parts of the world, these two companies usually end up with all of the oil and natural gas concessions. This has been largely true in Africa, the Middle East, South America, and the Far East. These are also the companies whose installations seem to be virtually off limits to the bombers in both sides of any recent war.

p58
Trusted [Bilderberg Group] members of the major media are invited, but also never report on the substance of the proceedings ... the New York Times, the Atlanta Constitution, Look magazine, and Life magazine. Similar personages continue to represent the major newspapers and TV networks... A few familiar names on that list were Lloyd Bentsen, Tom Foley, David Gergen, Richard Holbrooke, Peter Jennings, Henry Kissinger, and David Rockefeller.

p58
Mr. Skousen summarizes that the elites who wish to set up their world dictatorship recognize their main enemy to be the great middle class of the United States, which, being made up of individuals who have acquired a little education, property, and independence, will fight strenuously to keep them. The strategy of the elites is to squeeze the middle class to death by creating or exacerbating the major problems facing the society, including class warfare, crime, education, moral decay, etc., and then creating in response spurious governmental programs to "cure" the problems that they just created.