If anything, stakeholder capitalism represents a consumptive worm set to burrow into and hollow out corporations from within, to the degree that the ideology and practice find hosts in corporate bodies. It represents a means of socialist wealth liquidation from within capitalist organizations themselves, using any number of criteria for redistribution of benefits and “externalities.” (Originally published on the Mises Wire. February 1, 2021.)
What is the Great Reset? Have Big Tech companies become a means for technocrats in achieving their goals? Is Trump soley responsible for the storming of Capitol Hill? How should Libertarians combat the ongoing assault on civil liberties? Dumo speaks to Michael Rectenwald on these important topics. The Free Man Series. manpatria.com. 19 January 2021.(Click here or on title.)
We’ve heard talk of something called the “Great Reset,” which the COVID crisis is said to have created a perfect opportunity to implement. Some have dismissed the very idea as (what else?) a “conspiracy theory.” Michael Rectenwald joins me to sort it all out. Read the original article at TomWoods.com. http://tomwoods.com/ep-1814-what-is-the-great-reset/The Tom Woods Show. 15 January 2021. (Click here or on title.)
Guest Dr. Michael Rectenwald, professor of Global Liberal Studies at New York University 2008-2019, at one point a committed communist and current writer for Mises, joins Kim and Susan to discuss The Great Reset. Dr. Rectenwald states that The Great Reset is a combination of propaganda and conspiracy. It is wrapped around the World Economic Forum and the United Nations. This movement will transform the economy from a shareholder economy to a stakeholder economy, one that will be controlled by the government. There will be loss of small business to reduce production and consumption. Bill Gates on a TED Talk discussed population control through vaccinations. Transhumanism would take humans to a higher type through the use of chips placed on the brain. Dr. Rectenwald calls for the rejection of The Great Reset to restore personal liberty and a flourishing economy.The Kim Monson Show. 12 January 2021. (Click here or on title.)
Michael Rectenwald returns to the show to discuss The Great Reset, some of the language associated with this idea, and just what might be the plan for the anticipated outcome. Knowing who is eager for it, recognizing the terms they use helps identify them so they can be resisted. Interview with Dann Reid. The Culinary Libertarian. 4 January 2021. (Click here or on title.)
A socialist-communist sequel is coming to a theater near you. Some of the same old characters are reappearing, while new ones have joined the cast. While the ideology and rhetoric sound nearly the same, they are being put to slightly different ends. This time around, the old bromides and promises are in play, and a similar but not identical bait and switch is being dangled. Socialism promises the protection of the beleaguered from the economically and politically “evil,” the promotion of the economic interests of the underclass, a benign banning of “dangerous” persons from public forums and civic life, and a primary or exclusive concern for “the common good.” China’s “One Belt, One Road” initiative may hang the takers in Africa and other underdeveloped regions as if from an infrastructural noose. A different variety is on the docket in the developed world, including in the US. (Originally published on the Mises Wire. January 1, 2021.)
The Great Reset represents the best rubric we might find for grasping much of what’s going on in the world today: the prevalence of woke ideology and cancel culture; the draconian COVID responses; the seemingly endless Antifa/BLM riots; the supposed Biden presidential victory; Big Tech censorship; and the endless stream of propaganda, double think, and gaslighting propagated by mainstream and social media. Even if not by design, as I will show, all of these seemingly disparate elements interlock in a way that support Great Reset objectives, and the Great Re-setters favor all of these developments. Likewise, once we are able to grasp the contours of the Great Reset, we will be poised to understand the reason for the prevalence of these elements and how they all interconnect and function together to produce our present dystopia. (Originally published on LotusEaters.com. February 23, 2021.)
As I noted in the previous installment, the Great Reset, if its architects have their way, would involve transformations of nearly every aspect of life. Here, I will limit my discussion to the economics of the Great Reset as promoted by the World Economic Forum (WEF), as well as to recent developments that have advanced these plans. (Originally published on the Mises Wire. December 26, 2020.)
The Great Reset is on everyone’s mind, whether everyone knows it or not. It is presaged by the measures undertaken by states across the world in response to the covid-19 crisis. (Originally published on the Mises Wire. December 16, 2020.)
What if the politics of the left actually serve the interests of the would-be corporate monopolists and that is why these corporations embrace leftism? That would mean that woke capitalism is actually the expression of corporate interests. (Originally published on GlennBeck.com. August 18, 2020.)
