This lies at the heart of what Wikileaks has revealed about our world. Leon Trotsky wrote in 1917 that “secret diplomacy is a necessary tool for a propertied minority which is compelled to deceive the majority in order to subject it to its interests.” The revolutionary Bolshevik government published all the secret treaties of Russian imperialism, because “the abolition of secret diplomacy is the primary condition for an honest, popular, truly democratic foreign policy”.

This is why Wikileaks has provoked such a hysterical reaction and witch-hunt from the establishment. Not so much because of the particular details revealed in the cables, but because our rulers are simply appalled at the idea that common people should have any right to see how the world is really run, and in who’s interests.