What Is the Great Reset?

Article author: 
Michael Rectenwald, Chief Academic Officer, American Scholars
Article publisher: 
Imprimis, Hillsdale College
Article date: 
18 March 2022
Article category: 
Our American Future
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Article Body: 

... the idea of the Great Reset... can be traced at least as far back as the inception of the WEF, originally founded as the European Management Forum, in 1971....

The Great Reset aims to usher in a bewildering economic amalgam - Schwab’s stakeholder capitalism - which I have called "corporate socialism" and Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has called "communist capitalism."...

In brief, stakeholder capitalism involves the behavioral modification of corporations to benefit not shareholders, but stakeholders—individuals and groups that stand to benefit or lose from corporate behavior....

In opposing that [free enterprise] system, stakeholder capitalism entails corporate cooperation with the state and vastly increased government intervention in the economy....

Another way of describing the goal of the Great Reset is "capitalism with Chinese characteristics" - a two-tiered economy, with profitable monopolies and the state on top and socialism for the majority below....

The draconian lockdown measures employed by Western governments managed to accomplish goals of which corporate socialists in the WEF could only dream - above all, the destruction of small businesses...

Other developments that advance the Great Reset agenda have included unfettered immigration, travel restrictions for otherwise legal border crossing, the Federal Reserve’s unrestrained printing of money and the subsequent inflation, increased taxation...

... corporations become what I have called "governmentalities" - otherwise private organizations wielded as state apparatuses, with no obligation to answer to pesky voters. Since these corporations are multinational, the state essentially becomes globalist, whether or not a one-world government is ever formalized....

... the COVID crisis has accelerated the Great Reset. Monopolistic corporations have consolidated their grip on the economy from above, while socialism continues to advance for the rest of us below....

Because the goals of the Great Reset depend on the obliteration not only of free markets, but of individual liberty and free will, it is, perhaps ironically, unsustainable. Like earlier attempts at totalitarianism, the Great Reset is doomed to ultimate failure....

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