Judaeo-Masonic conspiracy theory
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The International-Communist-Judaeo-Masonic Conspiracy, sometimes called the international-marxist-judaeo-masonic conspiracy, or simply the judaeo-masonic conspiracy, is a conspiracy theory involving a secret coalition of Jews, freemasons, and communists. The coalition's dark aim, especially in franquist Spain, would be world domination.
The absence of evidence for such a world-spanning conspiracy is taken as further demonstration of the influence of the conspirators, who are understood to be working to suppress evidence of their activity.
It is possible to trace the existence of antisemitism in Spain to the Middle Age, since it was a useful mechanism to divert social conflicts using Jews as scapegoats, to whom all kinds of evil plots were attributed, such as starting plagues, kidnapping and ritualistic killing of infants, and the profanation of Christian sacraments, as the case of the Santo Niño de La Guardia);[1] but since the disclosure of the alleged The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,[2] these conspiracy theories were becoming more complex. The fact that Karl Marx was born in a Jewish family, together with the Jewish origin of prominent communist leaders, made possible to add worker's movements to the conspiracy, as participants of the same ideology.[3]
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[edit] Franco's obsession
During the first half of the XXth Century in Spain it was very common in reactionary groups to refer to that conspiracy as the responsible for the Spanish decadency since, at least, the reign of Philip II. The Habsburg Catholic King was the greatest enemy of some heterogeneous groups, like the Sephardi Jews expelled from Spain by the Catholic Monarchs, and their Marrano descendants, enriched by usury, who would have contacted with the Dutch rebels (William the Silent) and other enemies of catholicism and the Spanish Empire, who was its firmest defender. Such would be the responsible for the anti-Spanish propaganda called the Black Legend. The fact that among protestants (in special Luther) antisemitism was even stronger than among catholics doesn't seem contradiction enough for this theory.[4]
The general Francisco Franco was grown up in this intellectual ambient, and some sources ascribe to it the special hate that he had towards masonry, since apparently he tried to join without success (however, there seems to be no documentation about this).[5] This sources also emphasize the situation of his family, son of a Spanish Navy official that could not continue the family tradition due to the force reduction caused by the lose of the Spanish Empire in the Disaster of 1898. The winners, the United States (paradoxically later would be the main supporters of Franco), are seen as an infernal power, protectors of all kinds of heretic sects, dominated by greed and capitalism of Jewish origin (be not surprised by the contradiction capitalism-communism), and by the Jew-manipulated newspapers. The success of his brother Ramón Franco, the first aviator who was able to cross the Atlantic Ocean with a hydroplane, known by his progressivist ideology and masonry membership, had stressed the feeling of inferiority in Francisco Franco. Forced to resign himself to enter the Army, he achieved a brilliant career in the Spanish-African colonial army, where he was wounded. In this military ambients he approached to anti-communist publications that were published in France by groups influenced by antisemitic exiled russians.[6]
His rise to the leadership of the rebelled band during the Spanish Civil War allowed him to concentrate the repression towards the elements that he perceived as anti-Spanish: masons and leftists, features that he saw in the totality of the Republican defenders. The reconstruction he ordered at the General Archives of the Spanish Civil War in Salamanca, with all the confiscated papers, of a hall reproducing all the decorative show of a Masonic Lodge with all kinds of squalid elements is a good example of his obsession.[7]
During the difficult forties, first during the Second World War in which the sympathies of the franquist regime for Germany were obvious (but with a more neutral position since 1942 when the allies are seen as winners), and later during the international isolation during the post-war, Franco produced some memorable public speeches, referring to the persistent drought (another obsession) and went on with the judaeomasonic conspiracy as the culprit of all the disasters in Spain. However, some actions favorable to Sephardi Jews during the war (like the diplomat Ángel Sanz Briz) made possible to present himself as no racist. In fact, that point was important for National Catholicism to integrate the theory without problems. "Spanish race" is just a metaphorical concept, defined just by the extension of catholic faith and miscegenation in America.
The subsequent approach to United States dampered all that rhetoric along with the too explicit fascist references of the regime, although they did not disappear completely until the end of franquism.
[edit] Conspiracy theory, renewed
In recent times, the hidden relationships between those groups are still being looked for, as an attempt to renew the old theory, although it has not a relevance so big as in the early franquism. Antisemitism has obtained a new thrust in some places, like in post-soviet Russia, where Vladimir Zhirinovsky's anticommunist and antisemitic party, the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, has found again its traditional function as a scapegoat. The generalized fear of terrorism has at the beginning of the XXI century an islamic face, but that is not enough for some authors.[8] Regarding masonry, it has provided countless topics for more or less historic fantastic narrative that speculate with hidden explanations.[9]
[edit] Referencess
- ^ José María Perceval Un crimen sin cadáver: el Santo Niño de la Guardia (a crime without corpse: the holy child of La Guardia, Historia 16, n. 202, p.44-58, February 1993, accessible at: [1] (in Spanish)
- ^ The Protocols, with comments about its condition of plagiarism and fraud:[2]
- ^ However, Marx is considered as a judeophobic Jew, as he considered Judaism as a hindrance to abolish to reach his revolutionary purposes, and also posed the identification between Judaism, bourgeoisie, and capitalism.(in spanish)
- ^ (1937-1943) Felipe II. Madrid: Espasa Calpe.
- ^ [3] (in Spanish)
- ^ Article by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán about Franco and his obsesions. He refers an anecdote that could explain the insecurity feelings of Franco as a young cadet at the Military Academy in Toledo: he was called "Franquito" (little Franco), because of his short size and high-pitched voice. That expression is not a slander of his enemies, it is also mentioned in Franquist media: [4]. In this biographic page about Franco this interpretation of the Disaster of 98, from the «Anecdotario» of Franco himself (under the pseudonym of Jaime de Andrade) for the script of Raza, film directed by José Luis Sáez de Heredia:
«in Philippines, the foreigner promotes perturbations. Masonry invades everything. In Cuba, the rebels have powerful protectors; the same lodges, but with a great nation behind».
Jaime de Andrade adds this words:
«The Army and the Navy have been abandoned by Spain; they are prisoners of Spain. I have read General Captain staff letters that oozed blood. The government doesn't want adventures; we must accommodate. they can not send more men. War is not popular».
One of the officials there interrupts: «What have they done to be so (unpopular)? What a shame!!». And the staff chief says: «At the end, without weapons, without forces, without foreign policy, isolated from the world, we the military will be the culprit». [5] - ^ the masonry under Franquist repression by Francisco Moreno Gómez, accessible here (in Spanish)
- ^ Federico Jiménez Losantos answers readers in an internet chat:
I have read Don César Vidal's book "The Masons". What is your opinion about the hypothesis that 11 M (3/11) could have been orchestrated by Masonry?
It is possible there were a connection between French Masonry, they have cat's paws in Spain, and the massacre, but, as far as I know, only as observers. Judge Laurence Le Vert is married to the chief of French masonry, and she calls PSOE to tell about Islamic arrests before contacting the Government.(in spanish) - ^ Artícle by Pío Moa about César Vidal's Los Masones (2005)(in spanish)
[edit] See also
- Andinia Plan
- Anti-communism
- Anti-Masonry
- Antisemitism
- Conspiracy theory
- Masonic conspiracy theories
- New World Order (conspiracy)
- Racism
- Synarchism
