00:15:00 — Jay Dyer discusses the figure Christian Rakovsky, a committed Trotskyite and rising star who was later purged by the Trotskyite purges. The legitimacy of his interrogation is questionable due to its Cold War origins and the uncertainty of its provenance. However, the interrogation lends credence to claims of Rakovsky's financial involvement, which are also publicly recorded. Despite potential disinformation and the unreliability of defectors, Dyer acknowledges the possibility that the document may be genuine due to its lack of benefit to Stalin if intended as a leak.
00:20:00 — The YouTuber discusses the historical context of the trial of the anti-Soviet block of writers and Trotskyites, also known as the Trial of the 21, which occurred in March 1938 at the end of the Great Purge. The trial resulted in the purging of prominent Bolsheviks such as Bukharin ✡, Rykov, Rakovsky ✡, and Yagoda ✡, who were accused of espionage, treason, and other crimes. The focus then shifts to Christian Rakovsky, a former ambassador to France who was interrogated during the trial. Rakovsky was accused by another defendant, Bakarin, to save his own life. The YouTuber notes the involvement of a doctor named Dr. Landowski in the interrogation and suggests that Rakovsky was drugged to ease him up to speaking.
00:25:00 — The speaker expresses some reservations about the "Interrogation of Rakovsky," which recounts the apparent testimony of Nikolai Bukharin and other Soviet leaders about a Western capitalist plot to fund communism and control the world. While the speaker acknowledges that this narrative aligns with the claims of other scholars like Sutton and Quigley, he notes that the dialogue in the interrogation seems too polished and convenient, and may not reflect actual conversations. However, he also remarks that the interrogator displays a deep understanding of Marxist theory and dialectics, which could suggest that the text is an elaborate fabrication designed to propagate certain ideological themes. Finally, the speaker highlights the figure of Maxim Gorky, an anarchist writer who also criticized the Bolsheviks and argued that they had betrayed the revolution.
00:30:00 — Rakovsky critiques the actions of the people's commissaries in handling Russia like material from an experiment and highlights the intentional failure embedded within certain phases of communism. He credits Karinsky as an intentional failure and the real hero of the revolution because he promised people a brief republic, which convinced them to hand things over to the revolutionaries, and then handed over to the Bolsheviks. Rakovsky argues that Stalin is a bourgeois figure and that the USSR under Stalin practices formal communism but not real communism. He also discusses the different factions of Marxists, and how they view contradictions within communism.
00:35:00 — He discusses the idea that even those who oppose communism are ultimately participating in the dialectic that leads to the final goal of communism. H.G. Wells and Rakovsky are mentioned as being close to the inner party members of the power structure of the revolution, and they believe that these forms are participating in the dialectic to bring about the true and final goal, which is the final revolution. Rakovsky claims that true communism is trotskism and that it will continue and envelop the world, but his interrogator is skeptical. However, Quigley's book, Tragedy and Hope, confirms the analysis of Rakovsky and his interrogator, as it reveals that Schroeder Bank, in Cologne, helped to arrange Hitler's accession to power as Chancellor in 1933, and that the Schroeder Bank, Lazar Banks, and the Iranian oil company also played a role in the Iranian Revolution of 1961, which was run by the CIA under the personal direction of Alan Dulles.
00:40:00 — The speaker discusses a conversation between Rakovsky and Gabriel regarding the idea of communism being a conspiracy of perpetual revolution. Rakovsky explains that while it appears as a system of social justice or economic reform, communism's true meaning lies in this never-ending revolution. The system embraces contradiction since it is a fact of life, and it operates like an ancient esoteric religion. Rakovsky notes that capitalism is ultimately communism's enemy, but paradoxically, communism needs capitalism to succeed, and capitalists need communism to create an environment of suffering and revolution that feeds them.
00:45:00 — Rakovsky explains that communism intentionally utilizes contradictions and needs capitalism, as it is not the enemy of big capital. He believes in intentionally causing tension, leading to more poverty, worker misery, and more revolution. This strategy of tension creates a vicious cycle of strikes, hunger, and inflation, which hurts the workers but is fine with the communist elite. Rakovsky states that communism always ends up costing the workers more and results in a debt that is foisted upon them. He also explains that finance is inherently cosmopolitan and that capitalism is a revolutionary force. Finally, he discusses the creation of a communist super-state.
00:50:00 — Rakovsky reveals to Gabriel that the financier and communist Internationals share many similarities in their internationalist aims, as they both deny the power of the national state and struggle to change it into a communist or cosmopolitan anarchist state. Interestingly, Rakovsky attributes religious mythology to the power of money, stating that the money God is the new God in post-revolutionary times. He emphasizes that most of the money in circulation today is fake money, based on credit and faith, and that the current financial system is a giant machine for the purpose of bringing about unnatural scandals, aka usury. He warns that a small number of people having unlimited power over the possession of real wealth are absolute dictators of the global stock exchange, production, distribution, work, and consumption, resulting in anarchic, moral, social, and revolutionary influence.
00:55:00 — He argues that the money system in place is not the enemy of the Marxist revolution but is rather revolutionary and Marxist itself. The interrogator is blown away and Rakovsky points out that Trotsky admits the same thing in one of his books, stating that big banks are the inventors of the revolution and that they carry out a revolutionary mission unconsciously, gaining control of much of the world through unlimited amounts of money printing. Rakovsky asserts that the people who control the world are revolutionaries and that the money power has surpassed Pharaoh or Caesar in their power.
**A video analysis of the text **
https://youtu.be/NrTnmu--MA8?t=908
00:15:00 — Jay Dyer discusses the figure Christian Rakovsky, a committed Trotskyite and rising star who was later purged by the Trotskyite purges. The legitimacy of his interrogation is questionable due to its Cold War origins and the uncertainty of its provenance. However, the interrogation lends credence to claims of Rakovsky's financial involvement, which are also publicly recorded. Despite potential disinformation and the unreliability of defectors, Dyer acknowledges the possibility that the document may be genuine due to its lack of benefit to Stalin if intended as a leak.
00:20:00 — The YouTuber discusses the historical context of the trial of the anti-Soviet block of writers and Trotskyites, also known as the Trial of the 21, which occurred in March 1938 at the end of the Great Purge. The trial resulted in the purging of prominent Bolsheviks such as Bukharin ✡, Rykov, Rakovsky ✡, and Yagoda ✡, who were accused of espionage, treason, and other crimes. The focus then shifts to Christian Rakovsky, a former ambassador to France who was interrogated during the trial. Rakovsky was accused by another defendant, Bakarin, to save his own life. The YouTuber notes the involvement of a doctor named Dr. Landowski in the interrogation and suggests that Rakovsky was drugged to ease him up to speaking.
00:25:00 — The speaker expresses some reservations about the "Interrogation of Rakovsky," which recounts the apparent testimony of Nikolai Bukharin and other Soviet leaders about a Western capitalist plot to fund communism and control the world. While the speaker acknowledges that this narrative aligns with the claims of other scholars like Sutton and Quigley, he notes that the dialogue in the interrogation seems too polished and convenient, and may not reflect actual conversations. However, he also remarks that the interrogator displays a deep understanding of Marxist theory and dialectics, which could suggest that the text is an elaborate fabrication designed to propagate certain ideological themes. Finally, the speaker highlights the figure of Maxim Gorky, an anarchist writer who also criticized the Bolsheviks and argued that they had betrayed the revolution.
00:30:00 — Rakovsky critiques the actions of the people's commissaries in handling Russia like material from an experiment and highlights the intentional failure embedded within certain phases of communism. He credits Karinsky as an intentional failure and the real hero of the revolution because he promised people a brief republic, which convinced them to hand things over to the revolutionaries, and then handed over to the Bolsheviks. Rakovsky argues that Stalin is a bourgeois figure and that the USSR under Stalin practices formal communism but not real communism. He also discusses the different factions of Marxists, and how they view contradictions within communism.
00:35:00 — He discusses the idea that even those who oppose communism are ultimately participating in the dialectic that leads to the final goal of communism. H.G. Wells and Rakovsky are mentioned as being close to the inner party members of the power structure of the revolution, and they believe that these forms are participating in the dialectic to bring about the true and final goal, which is the final revolution. Rakovsky claims that true communism is trotskism and that it will continue and envelop the world, but his interrogator is skeptical. However, Quigley's book, Tragedy and Hope, confirms the analysis of Rakovsky and his interrogator, as it reveals that Schroeder Bank, in Cologne, helped to arrange Hitler's accession to power as Chancellor in 1933, and that the Schroeder Bank, Lazar Banks, and the Iranian oil company also played a role in the Iranian Revolution of 1961, which was run by the CIA under the personal direction of Alan Dulles.
00:40:00 — The speaker discusses a conversation between Rakovsky and Gabriel regarding the idea of communism being a conspiracy of perpetual revolution. Rakovsky explains that while it appears as a system of social justice or economic reform, communism's true meaning lies in this never-ending revolution. The system embraces contradiction since it is a fact of life, and it operates like an ancient esoteric religion. Rakovsky notes that capitalism is ultimately communism's enemy, but paradoxically, communism needs capitalism to succeed, and capitalists need communism to create an environment of suffering and revolution that feeds them.
00:45:00 — Rakovsky explains that communism intentionally utilizes contradictions and needs capitalism, as it is not the enemy of big capital. He believes in intentionally causing tension, leading to more poverty, worker misery, and more revolution. This strategy of tension creates a vicious cycle of strikes, hunger, and inflation, which hurts the workers but is fine with the communist elite. Rakovsky states that communism always ends up costing the workers more and results in a debt that is foisted upon them. He also explains that finance is inherently cosmopolitan and that capitalism is a revolutionary force. Finally, he discusses the creation of a communist super-state.
00:50:00 — Rakovsky reveals to Gabriel that the financier and communist Internationals share many similarities in their internationalist aims, as they both deny the power of the national state and struggle to change it into a communist or cosmopolitan anarchist state. Interestingly, Rakovsky attributes religious mythology to the power of money, stating that the money God is the new God in post-revolutionary times. He emphasizes that most of the money in circulation today is fake money, based on credit and faith, and that the current financial system is a giant machine for the purpose of bringing about unnatural scandals, aka usury. He warns that a small number of people having unlimited power over the possession of real wealth are absolute dictators of the global stock exchange, production, distribution, work, and consumption, resulting in anarchic, moral, social, and revolutionary influence.
00:55:00 — He argues that the money system in place is not the enemy of the Marxist revolution but is rather revolutionary and Marxist itself. The interrogator is blown away and Rakovsky points out that Trotsky admits the same thing in one of his books, stating that big banks are the inventors of the revolution and that they carry out a revolutionary mission unconsciously, gaining control of much of the world through unlimited amounts of money printing. Rakovsky asserts that the people who control the world are revolutionaries and that the money power has surpassed Pharaoh or Caesar in their power.