Their group later evolved into the Cercle Social organization founded by Bonneville -- a secret lodge and publishing house. They were libertarian communists. The Cercle Social took dominant national power when Brissot, a leading member, rose to power in March 1792. When in May 1792 the king sacked the Brissotin ministers of state, the Brissotins engineered the overthrow of the Monarchy on August 10, 1792. Thus, the Illuminati were responsible for both the Revolution of 1789 and the one of 1792. Then Robespierre became the enemy of the Brissotins, and their cosmopolitan libertarianism. In early 1793, Robespierre conspired with the Commune (mayor's office) to destroy them, smearing the Brissotins as the Girondin party (a total fiction). In the revolution of May 31-June 2, 1793, Robespierre usurped the left seating position of the Brissotins in the legislature by forcibly arresting them in their seats. In doing so, Robespierre's allies now seated themselves on the left where the Brissotins had been, but this time with an opposite agenda. The Robespierrists had an anti-libertarian dictatorial agenda which aimed to give the state direct control over the economy as a deliberate means to strengthen a dictatorship. Robespierre: Usurped Left With Right Wing AimsHence, Robespierre was a phony leftist, supplanting an original leftism which was libertarian and anti-socialist by modern standards. Those of Robespierre's type later claimed the mantle of liberalism that belonged to the Brissotins when the Robespierriests were the opposite of liberals --- they were de facto socialistic tyrants.Robespierrists held theories that the Cercle Social in 1793 openly regarded as the enemy of their liberal theories, bringing to naught all the progress of the Revolutions of 1789 and 1792. Pamphlets from the Cercle Social during 1793 such as Bancal's On Subsistances amply demonstrate their opposition to statist control over the economy as injurious to liberty, historically right-wing and monarchical, as well as bad government. Bancal's book and other Cercle Social works are available in the Rare Book section of this site. Whether the Illuminati survived depends on tracing their role in the French Revolutions of 1789 and 1792, and their persecution by Robespierre in 1793. The Best Exposure on the Illuminati of Bavaria yet! Released in October 2011 is our Illuminati Manifesto of World Revolution which details the Bavarian Illuminati's role in the French Revolutions of 1792 and 1794. The work includes a translation of Bonneville's Esprit des Religions. This was a 1792 work outlining the goals of the World Revolution planned by the Illuminati. Nicolas Bonneville was the leader of the French branch of the Bavarian Illuminati at Paris. You can purchase the print version of this ground breaking and scholarly work at this link at Amazon. You can also buy the Kindle version for just $9.99 at this Amazon link. | Adam Weishaupt, law professor who founded Illuminatenordens in Bavaria in 1776.The exposures by Barruel and Robison in 1798-1799 sealed the Illuminati's fate to live on mostly in these anti-Illuminati works. Yet, those exposures unintentionally gave the blueprints for those wed to Robespierre's brand of state socialism to use Illuminist systems to guarantee success. These exposures also inadvertently fed dreams of a libertarian communism which socialist revolutionaries in the 1840's used as bait. It became a perfect political bait-and-switch -- offering utmost liberty ("withering away of the state") obtained by passage through a "dictatorship of the proletariat." This maxim urged as necessary an anti-libertarian system --- state-socialism -- as the means to reach the final dream of a stateless society. Thus, the modern delusion was born that the utmost liberty could emerge from the most totalitarian systems. Hence, the current politics of our day directly are influenced by the successful hijacking in 1793 by Robespierre of the liberal and pro-libertarian Revolutions of 1789 and 1792. The historians who continue to portray Robespierre's socialistic policies as left and liberal have let down the ones who truly earned the right to be called left and liberal: the Illuminati agents at the Cercle Social such as Bonneville, Brissot, Condorcet, Paine, etc. Robespierre's socialistic anti-liberal agenda thus should be regarded as extreme right wing. Then the original meaning of left and liberal (less government, less taxes, freedoms guaranteed, etc.) might one day be restored so that the common man will recognize his friends and distinguish them from his enemies. And, of course, this correction to outlook would repair the mistaken impression that the Illuminati of Bavaria were precursors of modern totalitarians who aimed to create a one-world government. Instead, as Bancal's Correctif to the Revolution (in the rare book section on this site) proves, the Cercle Social said they favored a world republic of independent states whose disputes would be mediated by a world-court. Bancal opposed strongly a one-world government as a danger to liberty. The true origin of the totalitarian vision of a one-world government, operated on socialistic principles, is with Filippo Buonarroti [see Wikipedia], not the Illuminati. In the early 1800's, Buonarroti led/founded the Carbonari which spawned organizations which later in the 1800's sponsored socialistic revolutions. Buonarroti's program made no apologies for its aim to abrogate human liberty. He envisioned a permanent "dictatorship of liberty" to seal his utopian system labelled as communistic but which in reality was an austere Spartan system of total control which levelled all wealth. All humans on earth would not be permitted to have more than their bare necessities for living in exchange for those necessities being guaranteed by the state. See Buonarroti, The Conspiracy of Equals (1828). It is Buonarroti's ideas and secret societies which spawned a misguided 'liberalism' and deluded 'left' who are working against freedom today, exchanging liberty for a fantasy that 100% security against all suffering can be achieved by a well-meaning all-powerful state. Marco Di Luchetti, Esq. (Bologna, Italy). You can contact me at illuminatiofbavaria@gmail.com |
