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How to Overthrow the Illuminati

Postby American Dream » Tue Aug 27, 2013 2:14 pm

This piece is well worth a read. Although I would argue for a stronger and more nuanced embrace of conspiracy than the authors endorse, the problems which they critique here really do exist and are quite serious.

Hopefully this all can help promote the sort of deep and rigorous conspiracy analysis that will help us to best play our part in resoving current social problems, using the specialized knowledge which we really do possess in order to serve the common good as effectively as possible:



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How to Overthrow the Illuminati

Posted on August 7, 2013


ImageThis blog post is an online version of the pamphlet “How to Overthrow the Illuminati” which we are passing out in the hood. If you want to print this text to distribute, please click here.

Some key words are defined in the text below, and are italicized. Others are blue, and if you click on them, you will find their definitions in the glossary.


Everyone talks about the Illuminati. You may have heard Jay Z and Beyonce are members of the Illuminati, and channel demons when they perform. You may have heard Obama is a member of the Illuminati, and plans to implant microchips in all U.S. citizens, to prepare for martial law. You may have heard the dollar bill contains secret symbols, which reveal the U.S. has been controlled by the Illuminati for hundreds of years.

Illuminati theory helps oppressed people to explain our experiences in the hood. Society throws horrible stuff in our faces: our family members get locked up for bullshit. Our friends kill each other over beefs, money or turf. Our future is full of dead-end jobs that don’t pay shit. We struggle to pay bills while others live in luxury. On TV, we see people all over the world dying in poverty, even though we live in the most materially abundant society in history. Most people act like none of these terrible things are happening. Why does this occur? We start looking for answers, and Illuminati theory provides one.

We believe Illuminati theory is wrong, and we wrote this pamphlet to offer a different answer. We wrote this pamphlet because we know people who think about the Illuminati usually want to stop oppression and exploitation. They’re some of the smartest people in the hood today. Forty years ago, Illuminati theorists would’ve been in the Black Panther Party. Today most of them sit around and talk endlessly about conspiracies. This is a waste of talent. The world is in a deep crisis, and big protests, rebellions and revolutions are happening. In Egypt, South Africa, Turkey–and even in the U.S.–these movements are already taking 

place. 

People who 

say 

we can’t 

do 

anything because no 

one 

else 

is 

fighting are simply refusing to join the fight themselves. With the right tools, we can participate in these actions, and make history with millions of others.

This pamphlet is a tool to help you understand the world around you. It offers a brief history of Illuminati theory: who invented it, when and where. It shows how Illuminati theory became popular in the hood after the defeat of the movements of the 1970s. It reveals that Illuminati theory is unable to explain how society works, or provide solutions for how to end oppression and exploitation. It offers an alternative explanation of why exploitation and oppression exists, and what we can do to change it. First, we have to unearth the origin of Illuminati theory itself.

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Re: How to Overthrow the Illuminati

Postby Wombaticus Rex » Tue Aug 27, 2013 2:22 pm

Very cool, thank you.
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Re: How to Overthrow the Illuminati

Postby seemslikeadream » Tue Aug 27, 2013 3:29 pm

man I am frickin' psychic

how did I know I would read the word anti-semitism in the first couple pages?

and who the fuck are Will, Chino, Saudade and MaMoS?

further reading :roll:

Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America
Murray Bookchin, The Third Revolution: Popular Movements in the Revolutionary Era, vol 1 & 2
E.J. Hobsbawm, Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movements in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Margaret C. Jacob, The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans
Margaret C. Jacob, The Origins of Freemasonry: Facts and Fictions Alexander Piatigorsky, Freemasonry: A Study of the Phenomenon
David Smith and Phil Evans, Capital for Beginners Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts Karl Marx, German Ideology
Karl Marx, Grundrisse Georg Lukacs, History and Class Consciousness
Mazars and Deutsche Bank could have ended this nightmare before it started.
They could still get him out of office.
But instead, they want mass death.
Don’t forget that.
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Re: How to Overthrow the Illuminati

Postby Wombaticus Rex » Tue Aug 27, 2013 3:34 pm

Yes, the "Further Reading" section does raise some doubts about their understanding of their target audience, as well as the horizons of their own intellectual diet.

If this turns out to be the work of some white dudes, I am concerned that I might die laughing. Ostensibly, it's authentic per their stated bio:

We are revolutionaries active in struggles in New York City and Seattle. We’ve spent a lot of time with youth from the ‘hood, talking about life and politics, trying to come together to fight white supremacy, police brutality, the prison system, deportation, and inequality in the schools. Over and over again, we’ve seen how these conversations and struggles get derailed when people start to say there is nothing we can do because the Illuminati controls everything.

Will and Ba Jin are from New York and are part of a process of creating a local revolutionary organization. They were part of the Flatbush rebellion and they wrote this pamphlet about it. Chino and Saudade are also part of Take Back the Bronx; they organize on the block against cops, landlords, and politicians. Mamos is a member of the Black Orchid Collective, a group of revolutionaries in Seattle. He is also part of Creativity Not Control, a group of teachers, students, and parents who want learning to be for life, not labor.
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Re: How to Overthrow the Illuminati

Postby American Dream » Tue Aug 27, 2013 3:39 pm

Wombaticus Rex » Tue Aug 27, 2013 2:34 pm wrote:Yes, the "Further Reading" section does raise some doubts about their understanding of their target audience, as well as the horizons of their own intellectual diet.

If this turns out to be the work of some white dudes, I am concerned that I might die laughing.


The target audience is people from the hood- the folks of color- many younger- who hear and read pop culture Illuminati Theory as a form of radical critique of The System.

The collective behind it is a multi-ethnic/poc collective, strongly pro-working class, for grassroots autonomy and struggle, based in the liberation of women, people of color, queer and trans people, etc.
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Re: How to Overthrow the Illuminati

Postby seemslikeadream » Tue Aug 27, 2013 3:41 pm

I think they're in love with Karl ...but I could be wrong I've only spent a few minutes at the site

googling Michael Barkun some how I always find PEZ along with that name ...quel surprise!

The Communist Manifesto: Insights and Problems - Murray Bookchin

just getting started
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Re: How to Overthrow the Illuminati

Postby Wombaticus Rex » Tue Aug 27, 2013 3:41 pm

American Dream » Tue Aug 27, 2013 2:39 pm wrote:The target audience is people from the hood- the folks of color- many younger- who hear and read pop culture Illuminati Theory as a form of radical critique of The System.


Thanks, Captain O.

Definitely a ripe demographic for the timeless and accessible work of Karl Marx & Murray Bookchin.
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Re: How to Overthrow the Illuminati

Postby Julian the Apostate » Tue Aug 27, 2013 3:43 pm

“Originally, Freemasonry was just what it sounds like: a group of people who worked with masonry and stone to build structures. Starting in the 1300s, skilled workers, such as masons, weavers, and blacksmiths, began to organize in groups called “guilds.” In the 1700s Masonic lodges began recruiting rich or influential people, in order to maintain their funds and high social status. They soon lost their association with masonry work, and turned into a fancy social club.”

This is a completely wrong interpretation of the history of Freemasonry and Masonic Lodges. Not that it matters much in the grand scheme of the document, but it is disappointing to come across such intellectual laziness from something that wishes to present itself with any authority. It calls into question everything else that is stated…

Craftsmen’s guilds existed way before 1300AD (for example the ancient Roman Collegia). So did Masonic Lodges. In some cases they were one and the same. Take the Dionysian Artificers in ancient Greece for example:

“"They made their appearance certainly not later than 1000 B.C., and appear to have enjoyed particular privileges and immunities. They also possessed secret means of recognition, and were bound together by special ties only known to themselves. The richer of this fraternity were bound to provide for their poorer brethren. They were divided into communities, governed by a Master and Wardens, and called γυνοικιαι (connected houses). They held a grand festival annually, and were held in high esteem. Their ceremonials were regarded as sacred. It has been claimed that Solomon, at the instance of Hiram, King of Tyre, employed them at his temple and palaces. They were also employed at the construction of the Temple of Diana at Ephesus. They had means of intercommunication all over the then known world, and from them, doubtless, sprang the guilds of the Traveling Masons known in the Middle Ages."
-Manly P Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages

Unfortunately this kind of historical inaccuracy shows up in most recent “popular” discussions of the history of Freemasonry, so I don’t really blame the authors of this document for falling into the same trap, but they clearly didn’t do their homework, just cut and pasted.

I will be reading the rest of the document with skepticism.
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Re: How to Overthrow the Illuminati

Postby American Dream » Tue Aug 27, 2013 3:44 pm

Wombaticus Rex » Tue Aug 27, 2013 2:41 pm wrote:
American Dream » Tue Aug 27, 2013 2:39 pm wrote:The target audience is people from the hood- the folks of color- many younger- who hear and read pop culture Illuminati Theory as a form of radical critique of The System.


Thanks, Captain O.

Definitely a ripe demographic for the timeless and accessible work of Karl Marx & Murray Bookchin.


Their goal- as exemplified in this pamphlet- is to make radical theory and action accessible to the most oppressed sectors in the U.S.
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Re: How to Overthrow the Illuminati

Postby seemslikeadream » Tue Aug 27, 2013 3:45 pm

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jewish_qua ... erman.html

Judaism and Enlightenment (review)
David B. Ruderman, Margaret C. Jacob
From: Jewish Quarterly Review
Volume 94, Number 3, Summer 2004
pp. 523-535 | 10.1353/jqr.2004.0037
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
David B. Ruderman
David B. Ruderman is Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History and the Director of the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania

Margaret C. Jacob
Margaret C. Jacob is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a member of the American Philosophical Society



David Smith and Phil Evans, Capital for Beginners Karl Marx, Communist :P :P



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Re: How to Overthrow the Illuminati

Postby slimmouse » Tue Aug 27, 2013 4:04 pm

I wrote a reply and then edited it, cos I'm sick to the back teeth of this stuff.

The indefatiguable Michael Barkingmad strikes again.

Let my last sentence be the entire content.
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Re: How to Overthrow the Illuminati

Postby coffin_dodger » Tue Aug 27, 2013 4:13 pm

LOL, even the title of this thread is slippery and misleading.
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Re: How to Overthrow the Illuminati

Postby stillrobertpaulsen » Tue Aug 27, 2013 5:07 pm

coffin_dodger » Tue Aug 27, 2013 3:13 pm wrote:LOL, even the title of this thread is slippery and misleading.


How to Overthrow the Illuminati? Just teach Miley Cyrus to dance!

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Re: How to Overthrow the Illuminati

Postby seemslikeadream » Tue Aug 27, 2013 6:21 pm

oh this is just fuckin' great..now RI is listed with all the Marxist crazies "How to Overthrow the Illumination" on the google machine...thanks so much AD...your a real sweetie...shall we soon see another Mr. Build A. Burger signing up any minute now?

Same fuckin' bullshit word for word over and over again

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Mazars and Deutsche Bank could have ended this nightmare before it started.
They could still get him out of office.
But instead, they want mass death.
Don’t forget that.
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Re: How to Overthrow the Illuminati

Postby American Dream » Tue Aug 27, 2013 6:44 pm

Here is a related piece:


http://firenexttimenetwork.org/2012/10/ ... oke-to-me/

The Illuminati and Why It Spoke to Me

Posted on October 25, 2012

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Growing up as a working class woman of color, I knew from a young age that something was wrong with the conditions under which I and people who looked like me were living.

I knew that living in a drug infested neighborhood, having to move from substandard building to substandard building because my mom didn’t make enough to cover the rent once it was raised and the constant violence I witnessed both inside and outside of my home was not normal. I knew something was fucked up and that it was bigger than me, and although I was politicized from a young age by my father; as a teenager I still wasn’t able to fully connect the dots between my oppression and the system under which I lived.

Without an understanding of capitalism, neoliberalism and white supremacy I was unable to fully articulate what the problem was. I knew that racism existed, I knew that I was poor and that this contributed to the problem and I knew on some level that my being a woman had something to do with it, but outside of that I didn’t know much else.

Then came the Illuminati.

I feel the need to stop here and say that as a young woman I was what some might call a “tomboy.” Most of my close friends were guys and in many ways the things that interested me were the same things that mostly guys and few women I grew up around were interested in. One of these things was politics. This is not to say that there were, and are not young women of color with an interest in talking politics, I’m just saying that in the context in which I grew up it was mostly young men who partook in these types of conversations. This is where I was introduced to the concept of the Illuminati.

At 16 years old, my understanding of the Illuminati was that they were a bunch of rich white men that were connected to the government and they ran shit. In short they were the reason that my life and everyone else’s was fucked up. I remember hearing about and discussing for what seemed like hours the government plan to implant everybody with a microchip and that all who refused to have this chip would have no access to water, food, a job, healthcare or any necessities for that matter.

Looking back at this now I realize that we were already deprived of these basic human rights but somehow the thought of the “new world order” and the Illuminati clouded my ability to make these connections. Religion played a part in this as well: To me and my friends this represented the mark of the beast and the idea that all those who refused it would be tortured on earth but saved when the end of days came. We weren’t even particularly religious, but there was something in all of this that spoke to us.

This is one of the aspects of Illuminati conspiracy theory that is the most detrimental to struggle. The idea that the Illuminati is all powerful and unstoppable and that they have some spiritual or religious prophecy to fulfill makes it easy for people to step away from struggle and accept the idea that we must endure here on earth because it is God’s will. Essentially it serves to create a feeling of powerlessness.

When 9/11 hit and the $20 bill conspiracy ran rampant, I was all about it. It made perfect sense. The symbols on the bill, the way the numbers added up, the towers burning and the pentagon with a huge hole in it. It served as proof that I wasn’t crazy, that shit was fucked up, and that it wasn’t my fault that I was poor, and at the bottom of the pecking order. I felt I needed this proof due to the fact that I was constantly bombarded, as many oppressed people are, with the idea that I was poor because of something I did. My family and I weren’t good enough, smart enough and didn’t work hard enough to be successful in this society.

This “blame the poor” ideology is a consequence of the neoliberalism which is pervasive throughout our society and within poor communities. We are taught to blame ourselves and hate ourselves and never to look at the systemic issues which are creating the injustices we face.

Although by this time I had a better grasp of what capitalism was, it was still not enough to pull me from Illuminati-esque conspiracy theory. That only came as a result of reading more about history and being able to see how the system of oppression we live in was put in place through key historical moments. I read more about capitalism and its connection to poverty and racism and the explanations and understanding of how the world works made more logical sense to me than any Illuminati theory ever did.

The question I think of now as an organizer is: do people need to fully let go of all the ideas that come from the Illuminati theory?

I come across plenty of young brothers who talk incessantly about the Illuminati. Are they wrong? I don’t think so. The vast majority of young men I build with say that there is a group of men, mostly white and all rich who are running the world. They decide when we go to war and who with, what we see on television and what music and movies we are exposed to. They would call them the Illuminati, I would call them capitalists. They would say that their motivation is the creation of the New World Order, I would say their motivation is money and greed. What we are saying is similar enough that we have a basis from which we can build.

I write this piece because in many leftist circles when I bring up the Illuminati theory I get a lot of eye rolling and laughter, but I don’t think that this is the way to approach the topic. We need to be realistic about the fact that this ideology holds weight within a lot of oppressed communities and since building towards revolution cannot happen unless oppressed communities are leading; then in order to make this happen we must organize in these communities and we will thus come across individuals who believe in the Illuminati. If we roll our eyes, laugh and write people off as stupid we will get nowhere.

Instead let’s take what we can from these ideas and move forward to support in mobilizing people, not looking down on them and writing them off.

— by TANZEEM SHANEELA
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