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The Great Nonsense Of “The Great Reset”<\/strong><\/h1>\n

ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n

by Thomas DiLorenzo
\nLewRockwell.com<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Great Reset\u201d is the latest deceptive euphemism for totalitarian socialism that is being promoted by yet another group of wealthy corporate elitists who think they can centrally plan the entire world economy.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>They are essentially the ideological heirs of Frederick Engels and his intellectual puppet Karl Marx.\u00a0 \u201cThe Great Reset\u201d follows in the rhetorical footsteps of such euphemisms for socialism as \u201ceconomic democracy,\u201d \u201csocial justice,\u201d \u201cliberation theology,\u201d \u201cprogressivism,\u201d \u201cmarket socialism\u201d (an oxymoron, like \u201cjumbo shrimp\u201d or \u201cmilitary intelligence\u201d), \u201cenvironmentalism,\u201d \u201cfighting climate change,\u201d \u201csustainable development,\u201d and \u201cgreen new deal,\u201d to mention just a few.<\/p>\n

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The main figure of this movement is wealthy German engineer Klaus Schwab, founder of the \u201cWorld Economic Forum,\u201d who champions what he calls \u201ctranshumanism,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>the integration of nanotechnology into the human body so that humans can be controlled remotely by the state. As Ron Paul has noted, \u201cIncluded in Schwab\u2019s proposal for surveillance [of every citizen] is his idea to use brain scans and nanotechnology to predict, and if necessary, prevent, individuals\u2019 future behavior .\u00a0 This means that anyone whose brain is \u2018scanned\u2019 could have his . . . [constitutional] rights violated because a government bureaucrat determines the individual is going to commit a crime.\u201d<\/p>\n

Placed in the hands of politicians, this would create a level of totalitarianism the Soviets could only have dreamed of.\u00a0 In other words, Schwab is reminiscent of that famous twentieth-century German who also fantasized about creating a master race and ruling the world.<\/p>\n

This is nothing new, Antony Mueller points out, as eugenics, which was all the rage among so many ruling class elitists of the early twentieth century \u201cis now called transhumanism.\u201d Among the most prominent late nineteenth-and twentieth-century eugenicists were H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Charles Darwin\u2019s son Leonard, John Maynard Keynes, Irving Fisher, Winston Churchill, and Bill Gates, Sr. \u00a0Bill Gates, Jr. is an enthusiastic funding source for \u201ctranshumanism\u201d research and, like his father, is fond of eugenics.<\/p>\n

During a recent \u201cTed\u201d talk Gates, Jr. complained that \u201cThe world today has 6.8 billion people . .. that\u2019s headed up to about 9 billion.\u201d\u00a0 Have no fear, he said, because if \u201cwe\u201d do \u201ca really great job on vaccines [with anti-fertility drugs? Poisons?] health care, reproductive health services [including abortion?], we could lower that by perhaps 10 to 15 percent.”\u00a0 That in turn will lower carbon dioxide levels on the planet and address \u201cclimate change\u201d as well, said Gates.<\/p>\n

Keynes was treasurer of the Cambridge University Eugenics Society and director of the Eugenics Society of London.\u00a0 He called eugenics \u201cthe most important and significant branch of sociology\u201d [Eugenics Archive].\u00a0 Irving Fisher, icon of the Chicago School of Economics, literally wrote the book on the subject, entitled\u00a0Eugenics<\/em>.<\/p>\n

When he was the British Home Secretary (1910-1911) Winston Churchill advocated \u201cthe confinement, segregation, and sterilization of a class of persons contemporarily described as the \u2018feeble minded\u2019\u201d [International Churchill Society].\u00a0 His stated goal was \u201cthe improvement of the British breed\u201d.\u00a0 Accordingly, he supported \u201ccompulsory detention of the mentally inadequate\u201d; the \u201csterilization of the unfit\u201d; and \u201cproper labor colonies\u201d for \u201ctramps and wastrels.\u201d<\/p>\n

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World Government, Anyone?<\/strong><\/u><\/h3>\n

Antony Mueller also wrote of how the first attempt to create some kind of global governing institution to centrally plan the world was the League of Nations (1920), followed by the United Nations in 1945 under the leadership of Stalin, FDR, and Churchill.\u00a0 Although Churchill was fond of citing F.A. Hayek, especially The Road to Serfdom<\/em>, FDR was essentially a fascist whose domestic policies differed very little from fascist Italy and Germany, and of course Stalin was a mass-murdering communist.<\/p>\n

Churchill was voted out of office and replaced by the socialist Labor Party\u2019s Clement Atlee in 1945.\u00a0 The three \u201callied powers\u201d of World War II were then led by two socialists and the political heir to FDR\u2019s economic fascism, Harry Truman.<\/p>\n

The U.N. immediately created UNESCO (U<\/strong>nited\u00a0N<\/strong>ations\u00a0E<\/strong>ducational,\u00a0S<\/strong>cientific and\u00a0C<\/strong>ultural\u00a0O<\/strong>rganization) and the\u00a0W<\/strong>orld\u00a0H<\/strong>ealth\u00a0O<\/strong>rganization (WHO), whose stated goal was to \u201cmanipulate human development.\u201d \u00a0Eugenicist Julian Huxley was the first director of UNESCO who lamented that Marxism\u2019s attempt to create a new type of human (\u201csocialist man\u201d) had already failed because it lacked a \u201cbiological component.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neo-Malthusianism and the Birth of \u201cEnvironmentalism\u201d<\/strong><\/u><\/h3>\n

[S[ocialism . . . is . . . the society that must emerge if humanity is to cope with . . . the ecological burden that economic growth is placing on the environment . . . .\u00a0 [C]apitalism must be monitored, regulated, and contained to such a degree that it would be difficult to call the final social order capitalism.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 Robert Heilbroner, \u201cAfter Capitalism,\u201d\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em>, Sept. 10, 1990<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The above quotation by socialist economist, the late Robert Heilbroner, was written in the context of an article that lamented and mourned the worldwide collapse of socialism in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s.\u00a0 The great debate between capitalism and socialism was over, he said, and Ludwig von Mises was right about socialism all along, said a man who had spent the past half century promoting socialism in his teaching, speaking, and writing.\u00a0 But do not despair, he told his fellow socialists, for there is one more trick up our sleeves, namely, the Trojan Horse of achieving socialism under the guise of \u201cenvironmentalism.\u201d<\/p>\n

The basic strategy was then, as it is now, to constantly frighten the gullible public with predictions of The End of the World from environmental catastrophe\u00a0unless we abandon capitalism and adopt socialist central planning.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>This has always been the one constant theme of the environmentalist movement (not to be confused with the\u00a0conservation<\/em>\u00a0movement which is actually interested in the health of the planet and the humans who occupy it) since the 1960s.\u00a0 It ignores the fact that the twentieth-century socialist countries like the Soviet Union and China had by far the worse environmental problems on the planet, orders of magnitude worse than in the capitalist countries.<\/p>\n

In 2019 the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) published \u201cWrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions\u201d by Myron Ebell and Steven Milloy.\u00a0 The study is a compilation of reprints of newspaper and magazine articles that illustrate the seemingly never-ending false scare stories spread by the \u201cenvironmentalistS\u201d and their media puppets.\u00a0 The real founder of the modern environmental movement was entomologist Paul Ehrlich, not Rachel Carson, author of the widely-cited novel,\u00a0Silent Spring<\/em>.\u00a0 Ehrlich was supported by a group of wealthy socialists known as \u201cThe Club of Rome.\u201d\u00a0 His book,\u00a0The Population Bomb<\/em>, was incredibly successful, selling millions in just a couple of years, warning that the entire world will soon be destroyed by capitalism unless it is ended NOW and \u201csevere\u201d regulatory measures are taken.<\/p>\n

The first article displayed by CEI was from the November 17, 1967\u00a0Salt Lake Tribune<\/em>\u00a0announcing that Professor Paul Ehrlich of Stanford said the \u201ctime of famines\u201d is upon us and will be \u201cdisastrous\u201d by 1975 because of over-population.\u00a0 Such talk was a resurrection of the hoary, thoroughly-discredited Malthusianism of the nineteenth century, cloaked in the words of \u201cmodern science.\u201d\u00a0 Birth control may have to be made \u201cinvoluntary, said Ehrlich, and accompanied by \u201cputting sterilization agents into staple foods and drinking water.\u201d\u00a0 The Catholic church needs to be \u201cpressured\u201d by government to support his, said Ehrlich, who became one of the most celebrated, rich, and famous academics of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0quoted Ehrlich on August 10, 1969, as predicting that \u201cunless we are extremely lucky, everybody will disappear in a cloud of blue steam n 20 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ice Age Hysteria of the \u201870s<\/strong><\/u><\/h3>\n

Global cooling that would create a new ice age was the next scare tactic.\u00a0 An April 18, 1970\u00a0Boston Globe<\/em>\u00a0article quoted \u201cpollution expert\u201d James P. Lodge, Jr. as saying \u201cair pollution may obliterate the sun and cause a new ice age in the first third of the next century.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ehrlich chimed in, naturally.\u00a0 An October 6, 1970 Redlands, CA\u00a0Daily Facts<\/em>\u00a0article quoted him as predicting that \u201cthe oceans will be . . . dead . . . in less than a decade\u201d because of pollution caused by capitalism.\u00a0 And they will be frozen over.\u00a0 A July 9, 1971\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0article quoted a Dr. S.I. Rasool of NASA and Columbia University who said that pollution will cause an average temperature drop of as much as ten degrees that \u201ccould be sufficient to trigger an ice age!\u201d<\/p>\n

On December 3, 1972 the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sent a letter to President Nixon predicting a \u201cglobal deterioration of climate\u201d never before seen by \u201ccivilized mankind\u201d that would lead to a new ice age.<\/p>\n

A January 29, 1974 article in\u00a0The Guardian<\/em>\u00a0was headlined, \u201cSpace Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast.\u201d\u00a0 This was followed by a June 24, 1974\u00a0Time<\/em>\u00a0magazine article warning that \u201ctelltale signs are everywhere\u201d that we were already in a new ice age.\u00a0 Global cooling hysteria was still alive and well in 1978.\u00a0 A January 5, 1978\u00a0New York Times\u00a0<\/em>article was headlined, \u201cInternational Team of Specialists Finds No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend in Northern Hemisphere.<\/p>\n

Pivoting on a Dime:\u00a0 Global\u00a0Warming<\/em>\u00a0Hysteria<\/strong><\/u><\/h3>\n

By 1988, after more than a decade of warnings of a new ice age unless capitalism is destroyed failed to produce the desired result, many of these same \u201cscientists\u201d and bureaucrats all of a sudden began warning of an earthly apocalypse caused by global\u00a0warming<\/em>.\u00a0 The \u201cgreenhouse effect\u201d of pollution was discovered\/invented, with nationwide warnings like one in the June 24\u00a0Miami News<\/em>\u00a0declaring that \u201c\u201988 On Way to be Hottest Ever as World Temperatures Up Sharply.\u201d\u00a0 James Hansen of NASA warned in the\u00a0Lansing State Journal<\/em>\u00a0on December 12, 1988 that Washington, D.C. would \u201cgo from its current 35 days a year over 90 degrees to 85 days a year\u201d and \u201cthe level of the ocean will rise\u201d by as much as six feet. \u00a0\u201cRising seas could obliterate nations,\u201d a \u201cU.N. official\u201d informed the Associated Press on June 30, 1989. \u00a0In reality, as CEI points out, is that the number of 90+ degree days in Washington, D.C.\u00a0peaked in 1911 and continues to decline.<\/em><\/p>\n

By 2000 the mantra of the global warming hysterics included predictions that \u201csnowfalls are now just a thing of the past,\u201d and \u201cchildren just aren\u2019t going to know what snow is,\u201d\u00a0The Independent<\/em>\u00a0announced on September 12, 2015, quoting another environmentalist \u201cexpert\u201d from the University of East Anglia.<\/p>\n

By 2013 \u201cthe Arctic will be free of sea ice\u201d predicted James Hansen in 2008, as reported by\u00a0The Argus Free Press<\/em>\u00a0of Owosso, Michigan. \u00a0In the same year Al Gore informed us that \u201cthe North polar ice cap would be gone,\u201d as reported by the Associated Press on June 24, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a0For such predictions Massachusetts Senator ed Markey designated Hansen as \u201ca climate prophet.\u201d<\/p>\n

The renowned atmospheric scientist Prince Charles told\u00a0The Independent<\/em>\u00a0on July 9, 2009 that \u201cthe price of capitalism and consumerism is just too high.\u201d\u00a0 The planet will be destroyed by 2017 if capitalism is not essentially destroyed immediately, said the mega-wealthy prince whose preferred method of travel is by gas-guzzling Rolls Royce and private jet.<\/p>\n

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown outdid the prince by informing\u00a0The Independent<\/em>\u00a0on October 20, 2009 that \u201cwe have fewer than fifty days to save our planet from catastrophe.\u201d\u00a0 When New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez publicly announced in 2019 with perfect certainty that the world will end in in twelve years, she was referring to a 2018 United Nations \u201cstudy\u201d of \u201cclimate change\u201d that said the same thing.\u00a0 The world will likely end in twelve years, said the U.N. bureaucrats, unless the U.N. is given vast new governing powers over all countries of the world, and vast sums of additional tax revenue.<\/p>\n

NONE of these widely-touted and celebrated predictions came true.\u00a0 Birds did not even disappear from the planet as predicted in\u00a0Silent Spring<\/em>.\u00a0 \u00a0capitalism was\u00a0not\u00a0<\/em>replaced by worldwide socialist central planning; so the environmental \u201cscientists\u201d pivoted on a dime once again and adopted the language of climate\u00a0change<\/em>.\u00a0 It now does not matter whether the climate\u2019s temperature is increasing or decreasing;\u00a0either<\/em>\u00a0will cause a \u201ccatastrophe\u201d that can only be avoided by replacing what\u2019s left of capitalism with some kind of worldwide socialist central planning, they inform us.<\/p>\n

A quarter of a century of \u201cclimate change\u201d hysteria has still not led to the desired result.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>The next step in this more-than-a-century-old political crusade for worldwide socialism, therefore, is \u201cThe Great Reset.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Great Nonsense of The Great Reset<\/strong><\/u><\/h3>\n

Klaus Schwab holds doctorates in engineering and economics, although he seems ignorant of the most elementary economic concepts when he contends that the entire world economy can somehow be stopped by a god-like hand, push-button style, and \u201creset\u201d and \u201cbuilt back better,\u201d one of his favorite slogans.\u00a0 \u00a0He is the founder of the \u201cWorld Economic Forum,\u201d touted as an organization that promotes \u201cPublic-Private Cooperation.\u201d\u00a0 As Ayn Rand once said, however, whenever the private sector \u201cpartners\u201d with government, government is always the senior and controlling partner.<\/p>\n

Schwab seems totally unaware of how the institutions of capitalism have\u00a0evolved\u00a0<\/em>over the centuries by ingenuity and efforts of millions and were not magically set or reset by any single man or government committee.\u00a0 Money evolved on the free market and did not originate from governmental edits. Even language\u00a0evolved<\/em>, and was not invented by any government bureaucracy.\u00a0 There is no recognition at all in any of Schwab\u2019s books that he understands (or cares) anything about the spontaneous order of markets, the importance of private property and free-market prices, the economy-smothering effects of government bureaucracy, or the economic reasons for the inevitable failures of socialism.\u00a0 Like all other socialist ideologues, he does not even bother to address the critics of socialism as he blindly makes his case for\u00a0world\u00a0<\/em>socialism.\u00a0 It\u00a0can<\/em>\u00a0work, he insists, if only\u00a0he<\/em>\u00a0and his corporate elitist comrades could be in charge.<\/p>\n

The \u201clogic\u201d of The Great Reset can be stated in a syllogism:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1) Socialism has failed disastrously everywhere it has been implemented;<\/p>\n

2) Everyone knows this;<\/p>\n

3) Therefore, what the world needs is\u00a0more\u00a0<\/em>socialism on the biggest scale ever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Schwab is an engineer and believes that world society can be socially \u201cengineered\u201d by corporate elitists like himself.\u00a0 The Soviets would label this kind of thinking \u201cscientific socialism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Destructionism<\/strong><\/u><\/h3>\n

Like all socialist ideologues, Schwab\u2019s starting point is what Ludwig von Mises called \u201cdestructionism.\u201d\u00a0 All socialists, Mises said, advocated the destruction of the existing institutions of society, especially capitalism, the family, and religion, all of which form a barrier between the individual and the controlling dictates of the state. Only then can society be \u201creset\u201d to create a socialist utopia. \u00a0For \u201cSocialism is . . . the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t build; it destroys.\u00a0 For destructionism is the essence of it . . . each step leading towards socialism must exhaust itself in the destruction of what already exists.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is why Schwab, Gates, Biden, and other proponents of \u201cthe great reset\u201d so enthusiastically celebrate the lockdowns that occurred during the so-called pandemic of 2020 and declare that it is time to \u201cbuild back better.\u201d\u00a0 Destroy what exists, they tell us, and then trust them to \u201cbuild back\u201d the entire planet \u201cbetter.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>In fact, they were caught on video at their annual World Economic Forum meeting in early 2021\u00a0cheering<\/em>\u00a0a video of empty city streets and closed-down businesses caused by the government-mandated lockdowns that plunged literally millions into poverty worldwide. The lockdowns are \u201cimproving cities around the world,\u201d said Schwab.\u00a0 They may even moderate \u201cclimate change,\u201d he triumphantly chortled.\u00a0 The unemployed and impoverished residents of those devasted cities would obviously disagree with this rosy scenario.<\/p>\n

A \u201cteam of researchers\u201d at the University of East Anglia, an institution that is notorious for its \u201cstudies\u201d of global warming\/cooling\/climate change hysteria, has also chimed in to advocate a \u201cglobal lockdown\u201d every two years to supposedly reduce carbon dioxide emissions as required by the \u201cParis Climate Accord.\u201d\u00a0 These lockdowns would not be related to any virus but would simply be designed to intentionally destroy much of the world economy, leaving millions in abject poverty, causing untold illness and death, for the sake of \u201cfighting climate change\u201d and of course, to achieve their real objective of destroying capitalism and adopting a version of worldwide socialist central planning.<\/p>\n

Abolition of Private Property<\/strong><\/u><\/h3>\n

The Word Economic Forum (WEF) socialists reveal themselves as classic Marxists in the sense that many of them call for the abolition of private property which, coincidentally, was the first plank of the ten planks of\u00a0The Communist Manifesto<\/em>\u00a0by Marx and Engels.\u00a0 Former Danish Minister of the Environment Ida Auken was given a platform at a WEF event to explain her definition of \u201ca good life\u201d that entailed the abolition of private property:<\/p>\n

\u201cWelcome to the year 2030 . . . . I don\u2019t own anything, I don\u2019t own a car.\u00a0 I don\u2019t own a house.\u00a0 I don\u2019t own any appliances or any clothes . . . someone else is using our [house] whenever we do not need it . . . .\u00a0 I have no real privacy . . . everything I do . . . is recorded [by the state].\u00a0 All in all, it is a good life.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Auken here is obviously dreaming of \u201ca good life\u201d where governments own all property and rent or lease\u00a0everything\u00a0<\/em>to their subjects.\u00a0 Of course, that means that politicians will decide for you what you need.\u00a0 There would be no such thing as consumer sovereignty any more than there was in the Soviet Union (apart from the black markets).\u00a0 And as Hayek famously said, in such a system the only power worth having would be political power.\u00a0 Bribery, corruption, and rent seeking run amok would be pervasive in any such society.<\/p>\n

They want to spy on your every move, using the latest nanotechnology which probably means implanting devices into your body.\u00a0 There will no privacy, and that\u2019s all good with Ida Auken and her WEF colleagues.<\/p>\n

Auken speaks fondly of how, if she wasn\u2019t \u201cusing\u201d a room of her house, it would be perfectly fine for strangers to occupy it in her absence.\u00a0\u00a0Government-approved<\/em>\u00a0strangers, of course.\u00a0 This is eerily reminiscent of how the Soviets socialized housing and forced strangers to live in extremely cramped spaces in communal housing.\u00a0 It is easy to imagine an Auken army doing the same in the name of \u201csustainability.\u201d<\/p>\n

After receiving criticism of this outrageous view, Auken attempted to soft pedal and disguise her true beliefs by saying that such a world was not actually her \u201cutopia\u201d but only what she believes is the inevitable.\u00a0 This is another old socialist gimmick \u2013 to argue that socialism is inevitable, and it is therefore futile to oppose it.\u00a0 Her argument that she was just explaining an inevitable future is not believable.<\/p>\n

In fact, the inevitability gimmick is the main theme of\u00a0all\u00a0<\/em>of Schwab\u2019s books on the subject.\u00a0 They tend to go into excruciating detail about the digitalization of life, nanotechnology, etc., portray it all as \u201cinevitable,\u201d and then make a pitch for why this supposedly means that centralized political control of all societies is necessary .<\/strong><\/p>\n

Exactly the opposite is true, however.\u00a0 As Hayek pointed out in almost all of his life\u2019s work. \u00a0The more complex society becomes, the\u00a0greater\u00a0<\/em>is the need to rely on\u00a0voluntarism, private property, and free markets,<\/em>\u00a0the only known means of achieving an effective use of knowledge in society.\u00a0 Complexity requires the use of\u00a0many<\/em>\u00a0minds (and bodies) to make effective use of increasingly complex knowledge in order to advance.\u00a0 Not only many minds, but many minds\u00a0in a regime of economic freedom\u00a0<\/em>is necessary \u2014 again the polar opposite of \u201cthe great reset\u201d ideology.<\/p>\n

The Soviet Union had many brilliant people but they were largely forbidden to apply their talents in a way that would improve the lives of their fellow citizens.\u00a0 They were viewed by the state instead as tools\u00a0to aggrandize the state,<\/em>\u00a0not to serve the citizenry. To deny this is to engage in what Hayek called a \u201cfatal conceit.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cStakeholder\u201d Subterfuge<\/strong><\/u><\/h3>\n

The WEF elitists also employ another subterfuge as a means of essentially abolishing private property.\u00a0 They do this by advocating the replacement of corporate shareholders with \u201cstakeholders,\u201d which includes just about every type of group of individuals in any community which are said to have a \u201cright\u201d to affect corporate decision making on a day-to-day basis.\u00a0 Such groups usually involve various left-wing political pressure groups such as labor unions, environmentalists, the \u201ccivil rights\u201d\/affirmative action lobbyists,\u00a0ad infinitum<\/em>.\u00a0 Libertarians and free-market economists never seem to appear on the lists of \u201cstakeholders\u201d that are espoused by leftist stakeholder theorists.<\/p>\n

Public choice economics teaches us, however, that such large groups tend to be disorganized because of their size, diversity, and consequently high decision-making costs and are therefore rarely effective.\u00a0 It would also subject corporate decision making to profit-destroying bureaucracy and indecision, effectively turning corporations into versions of say, the Department of Motor Vehicles or the U.S. Postal Service in terms of efficiency.<\/p>\n

The \u201cstakeholder\u201d advocates surely understand this, which is why they propose that people such as\u00a0themselves<\/em>\u00a0serve as unelected spokesmen for all the various \u201cstakeholders.\u201d\u00a0 This will require the heavy hand of government\u00a0to empower<\/em>\u00a0them<\/em>\u00a0to order corporations to do as\u00a0they\u00a0<\/em>say, not as their customers and shareholder owners say.\u00a0 It is\u00a0de facto<\/em>\u00a0nationalization, in other words, an effective abolition of private property in corporations.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In addition to offering no clue that he understands elementary economic principles, Schwab also seems completely clueless about the long history of classical liberal ideas such as private property, free markets, limited constitutional government, decentralized government, the rule of law, and much else.\u00a0 Or, he simply doesn\u2019t care because he is a megalomaniacal tyrant.\u00a0 He is no different, in other words, than all the other twentieth century socialists who were either ignorant of these things or openly attacked them as barriers to their totalitarian intentions.<\/p>\n

Moreover, Auken\u2019s utopian daydream is reminiscent of the late nineteenth century book,\u00a0Looking Backward<\/em>, by Edward Bellamy.\u00a0 This was another utopian socialist daydream in the form of a novel whereby one Julian West falls asleep in 1887 and awakens 113 years later in the U.S. in the year 2000 when the country had been turned into a socialist utopia.\u00a0 Auken apparently believes it would only take a single decade to achieve\u00a0her\u00a0<\/em>(and Schwab\u2019s) socialist utopia, however.<\/p>\n

The Great Reset as Super Fascism<\/strong><\/u><\/h3>\n

The World Economic Forum claims to exist in order to promote an integration of private enterprise and the state.\u00a0 This is a perfect definition of economic fascism.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Economic fascism in Mussolini\u2019s Italy and Nazi Germany allowed ostensibly private enterprises to exist (unlike the Russian socialists), but only if it was subjected to a totalitarian regulatory regime that forced all production to serve \u201cthe common good\u201d as defined by the political ruling class, not the ruled. Consumer sovereignty was not at all a concern.\u00a0 Schwab uses this same language of \u201cthe common good\u201d to describe his \u201cgreat reset\u201d agenda.<\/p>\n

It is basically a plea to turn the entire world economy into a version of Chinese fascism.\u00a0 In the past several decades the Chinese communist government allowed more and more private enterprises to exist, but they are all still very heavily regulated, regimented, and controlled by the state.\u00a0 Of course, the same can be said of the U.S. economy; it\u2019s all a matter of degree.\u00a0 As Robert Higgs has said, the American economic system is a system of \u201cparticipatory fascism,\u201d by which he meant a combination of economic fascism and democracy instead of dictatorship.<\/p>\n

After claiming that the \u201cFourth Industrial Revolution\u201d in the form of the \u201cdigitalization\u201d of just about everything is inevitable, and arguing that that means there is a need for the most centralized government the world has ever known, Klaus and his associates drag out the same tired, old socialist platitudes that Leftists have been promoting for generations as the alleged answers to all of society\u2019s problems.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0They advocate shutting down more and more of the world economy with more lockdowns (destructionism); a huge expansion of the catastrophically-failed welfare state with the unlimited printing of money by central banks in order to hand out \u201cuniversal basic income\u201d to everyone; the eventual abolition of beef in order to fight \u201cclimate change\u201d allegedly caused by cow flatulence; the abolition of virtually all other kinds of meat, replacing it with grass and insects as part of the average diet (presumably not\u00a0their<\/em>\u00a0diet, however); the abolition of the energy industries and their replacement with windmills and solar panels; communal housing, Soviet style; the \u201cleveling\u201d of wage differences by regulating labor markets essentially null and void, which would create communistic chaos; and the effective nationalization of whatever is left of private society with a 400% increase in taxation (for starters).<\/p>\n

There is supposed to be no opposition to this recipe for totalitarian utopia because it is all being done in the name of \u201cequity and inclusion\u201d (the mating call of Leftists everywhere), \u201csustainability,\u201d and \u201cthe common good.\u201d\u00a0 To oppose this latest proposal for a totalitarian world order is, therefore, to be an enemy of society.\u00a0 The \u201ccommon good before individual good,\u201d by the way, was also the explicitly-stated theme of the 1920 Nazi Party Platform.\u00a0\u00a0According to the World Economic Forum crowd\u00a0this<\/em>\u00a0is the \u201cnew\u201d ideology that is supposed to lead us all through the twenty-first century\u2019s \u201cFourth Industrial Revolution.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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