Blood and Gold: The history of the Council on Foreign Relations - Paperbackby Eustace Mullins (Author) Revolutions are not made by the middle class, but by the oligarchy at the top. In America, the Council on Foreign Relations is the policy making group for Marxist groups in the United States, controlling subsidiary political organizations devoted to Marxist propaganda, including the Institute of Pacific Relations. The Council on Foreign Relations was established in 1919 by the delegations to the Paris Peace Conference, with