FINAL WARNING: The Communist Agenda
The Mennonites, who came to Pennsylvania from Germany, in 1683,
established communes. As they moved westward, they left behind a
splinter group, called the Amish, who gradually developed a society
based on the private ownership of property. Also in 1683 followers of a
Frenchman, Jean de Labadie (former Jesuit, turned Protestant)
immigrated to Maryland. They held property in common, but broke up
within a couple of years.
In 1774, Englishwoman Ann Lee, leading a group called the Shakers
(United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing), which was
a splinter group of the Quaker movement, established a celibate
communal society near Albany, New York, in an area known as
Watervliet. Religious persecution had forced them to America, where
they practiced celibacy, equality of sexes, common ownership of
property, and the public confession of sins. In 1787, two of Lee’s
followers, Joseph Meacham and Lucy Wright, established a similar
colony in New Lebanon, NY. By 1840, they had 6,000 members in 19
communes, from New York, to Indiana and Kentucky. Their numbers
declined after the Civil War, and they finally broke up in the 1940’s.
Francois Emile Babeuf (1760-97), was a member of the Illuminati (his
pseudonym was ‘Gracchus’), and as such, his social views reflected
those of Weishaupt’s. He formed a Masonic-like association of
disciples called Babouvistes, who advocated violence as a means of
achieving reform. They met at the dining hall of the Abbey, and
sometimes in the crypt. The location of the building, which was near
the Pantheon, led to the name of the Order, which was known as the
Pantheonistes. The group, at its peak, had about 2,000 members.
Babeuf wrote: “In my system of Common Happiness, I desire that no
individual property shall exist. The land is God’s and its fruits belong
to all men in general.” One of his disciples, the Marquis de Antonelle, a
former member of the Revolutionary Tribunal, wrote: “The state of
communism is the only just, the only good one; without this state of
things, no peaceful and really happy societies can exist.”
In April, 1796, Babeuf wrote his Manifesto of the Equals, which was
published under the title Analysis of the Doctrine of Babeuf. In it he
wrote: