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  1. Rudolf Rocker wrote some about the reactionary religious zealot movements that arose against conspiracies of these liberal secret societies. Illuminati being the most popular. But these liberal secret societies were organizations formed to create a liberal world order. Meaning an order based in Enlightenment ideals and values. Individual liberties, republicanism, anti-clericalism, and a philosophical and intellectual paradigm based on liberal reason and rationalism. These societies and conspiracies offended the zealot reactionary religious fundamentalists. Freemasonry is another fascinating subject. A secret society clouded in Abrahamic symbolism, liberal theocracy, and Enlightenment liberalism. Unlike other secret societies of the Enlightenment, the Freemasons were accepting of Judeo-Christian based faiths blended with rationalism (liberal religions). Unlike the Illuminati which was more anti-clerical. A reactionary religious movement of anti-Masonic sentiment grew in the US, fearful of the conspiracy that the Illuminati were responsible for the French Revolution (as you can see the reactionaries were against the very ideals that the American Republic was founded in). George Washington tried to quell those fears. Ironically Washington was a member of the Freemasons, a secret society which expanded nations to push for a New World Order based in Enlightenment values. Religious conservatives feared the conspiracy of a secret society with an agenda for a New World Order, doing away with traditional orders. Anti-Semitism was also prevalent in these conspiracies. Ironically the Freemasons were such a secret society and were integral as to why liberal republican revolutions like the American Revolution even happened. Several Founding Fathers were Freemasons. While the French Revolution was violent, it was also based in a liberal and republican movement based in Enlightenment values. Arguably today a liberal capitalist oligarchy is consolidating an international hegemony. No conspiracies needed. Capitalism, imperialism, and statism functions exactly as such, consolidating power. Just beware of conspiracies, they are the right wing’s bread and butter. Not that leftists don’t get involved in conspiracy theories. Especially Anarchists who hold a healthy skepticism of power hierarchies and institutions. But Anarchists deal more in reason, and science; the deconstruction and analytical critique of the nature of statism and hierarchies is no conspiracy. Today of course capitalism, not feudalism and monarchism, is the old reactionary order, and socialists fight to expand and complete the revolution towards complete freedom.
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