Secret History #27: Empire of Evil

The lecture pairs British imperial planners with Sabbatean Frankist networks, presented as wealthy diaspora communities skilled in secrecy, finance, and underground organization.

Mikhail Bakunin and other anarchist critics of Marxism are presented as challengers to vanguard-led socialism.

The lecture focuses on Lenin, Trotsky, the Red Army, the White opposition, and foreign financiers and mercenaries operating during the Russian Civil War.

British imperial strategists, bankers, and intelligence operatives work to keep continental rivals fragmented while extending maritime influence through allies and colonial extraction.

British imperial planners, bankers, and naval strategists seek to control global trade despite Britain’s small land base.

The lecture highlights John Locke, David Hume, Jeremy Bentham, and John Stuart Mill as the architects of a British philosophical chain that shapes modern governance.

Benjamin Disraeli, a Jewish-born British statesman and novelist, addresses a Victorian readership curious about Jewish history and influence.

Charles Darwin, British scientific institutions, and a public hungry for authoritative explanations of human origins are the central figures in the lecture’s argument.

Sigmund Freud and his Viennese patients are at the center of the lecture’s discussion, along with the social elites who influence his professional trajectory.

The lecture frames empires, ruling elites, and minority intermediary groups as the actors in a recurring political pattern.

Karl Marx, his patron Friedrich Engels, and the lecture’s notion of transnational capital are positioned as the drivers of a materialist redefinition of social conflict.

The lecture’s narrator addresses students and frames modern intellectual movements as the objects of scrutiny rather than neutral progress.

The Ottoman state, British and French bankers, and allied intermediaries become the central actors in a debt-driven political struggle after the Crimean War.

Freud, his patients, and later disciples such as Carl Jung are presented as the agents who expand psychoanalysis into a cultural system.

The lecture addresses revolutionary leaders, organizers, and opposition forces as the core actors that determine whether a revolt succeeds.

The lecture centers on the Rothschild banking family, their fast couriers, and the London public whose investment decisions hinge on wartime news.

In Disraeli’s novel, the character Sedonia represents a Jewish financier modeled on the Rothschilds and other diaspora elites operating across European courts.

The lecture cites Wall Street financiers, British banking interests, and Bolshevik leaders as participants in a transactional relationship around the Russian Revolution.

Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, and the Bolshevik leadership are portrayed as rivals fighting for control of the post-revolutionary state.

The Young Turks, the Ottoman Sultan, and foreign financiers become key actors in a revolution that the lecture frames as externally encouraged regime change.