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CHAPTER I<br />
TO ELIMINATE THE OPIATE<br />
What nation is <strong>the</strong>re so great that has laws and perfect rules<br />
as this Torah, which I place before you this day?<br />
Religion is <strong>the</strong> <strong>opiate</strong> of <strong>the</strong> people.<br />
(Deuteronomy 4:8)<br />
(Karl Marx, Introduction <strong>to</strong><br />
Critique of <strong>the</strong> Hegelian<br />
Philosophy of Right, (1844)).<br />
Contrary <strong>to</strong> popular opinion Karl Marx did not originate <strong>the</strong><br />
Communist Manifes<strong>to</strong>. He was paid for his services by <strong>the</strong><br />
League of <strong>the</strong> Just, which was known in its country of origin,<br />
Germany, as <strong>the</strong> Bund der Gerechten. 1<br />
The Bund, which existed as a secret society, was later <strong>to</strong><br />
become known as <strong>the</strong> International Communist Party.<br />
The actual origin of this Bund seems <strong>to</strong> be lost in obscurity,<br />
but it is believed by many political scientists <strong>to</strong> have been<br />
influenced largely by ano<strong>the</strong>r secret organization, <strong>the</strong><br />
Illuminati, 2 <strong>the</strong> brain child of a Bavarian intellectual named<br />
Adam Weishaupt, who is believed <strong>to</strong> have been an ex-Jesuit.<br />
The llluminati was founded on May 1, 1776, and it is for this<br />
reason that many scholars believe that May Day has achieved<br />
prominent status in Marxist Leninist organizations and o<strong>the</strong>r<br />
Socialist Communist coalition groups throughout <strong>the</strong> world.<br />
When Weishaupt first conceived of a new social order in <strong>the</strong><br />
world, he was guided by <strong>the</strong> model of The Republic by Pla<strong>to</strong><br />
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