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The Great Reset: Corporate Socialism, or 'Capitalism' with Chinese
Characteristics
MARCH 11, 2021 · COMMENT
Welcome to my city - or should I say, "our city." I don't own anything. I don't own a car. I don't own a house. I don't own
any appliances or any clothes.
It might seem odd to you, but it makes perfect sense for us in this city. Everything you considered a product, has now
become a service. We have access to transportation, accommodation, food and all the things we need in our daily lives. One
by one all these things became free, so it ended up not making sense for us to own much.[1]
This is the vision of a blogger for the World Economic Forum (WEF). This report from the future to the past, our present, is not
“a utopia or dream of the future,” we are told. Yet the future just so happens to meet all the criteria of the Great Reset: low to
no carbon emissions, nearly 100% reusable products, “sustainability,” a happy, compliant population.
We shall see that our concern about the Great Reset is not, as the New York Times would have it, a baseless conspiracy theory.
[2] Rather, the Great Reset is not a conspiracy at all; it’s an openly avowed plan.
The Great Reset is a phrase #rst used by Klaus Schwab and the WEF to describe a new kind of capitalism. In their
book, COVID-19: The Great Reset, WEF founder and executive chairman Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret write that the
COVID-19 crisis should be regarded as an “opportunity [that can be] seized to make the kind of institutional changes and
policy choices that will put economies on the path toward a fairer, greener future.”[3]
Thus, the Great Reset aims to use COVID-19 as an “opportunity” to reset capitalism in order to address climate change and to
bring about so-called economic “fairness.” We know what the COVID crisis is, although we may disagree on its dangers and our
governments’ responses to it. And we know what climate change is, although disagreements about its dangers and causes
abound. But what is this “fairer” future, and how would the Great Reset bring it about?
The Great Reset would replace shareholder capitalism, or neoliberalism, and universalize “stakeholder capitalism.” Stakeholder
capitalism involves the consideration of “customers, suppliers, employees, and local communities”[4] in addition to shareholders
in the business operations of the world’s major corporations and governments. A stakeholder is anyone or any group that
stands to bene#t or lose from corporate behavior—other than competitors, we may suppose. Stakeholder capitalism involves
changes to the behavior of corporations with respect to carbon use but also in terms of the distribution of bene#ts and other
externalities that corporations produce. It means not only corporate cooperation but also government intervention in the
economy. Schwab and Malleret promote “the return of ‘big’ government.” If “the past #ve centuries in Europe and America”
have taught us anything, they assert, it is that “acute crises contribute to boosting the power of the state. It’s always been the
case and there is no reason why it should be different with the COVID-19 pandemic.”[5]
Schwab and Malleret typically pit “stakeholder capitalism” against “neoliberalism.” Neoliberalism is, according to Schwab and
Malleret, “a corpus of ideas and policies that can loosely be de#ned as favouring competition over solidarity, creative
destruction over government intervention and economic growth over social welfare.”[6] Although “neoliberalism” is a weasel
word that changes meanings depending on the user, Schwab and Malleret deploy the term to refer to what is otherwise known
as the free market. Stakeholder capitalism is thus opposed to the free enterprise system, to the competition of the free and open
market. Stakeholder capitalism means economic planning so that production and consumption tend toward a greener, fairer
economy. We may assume that the obverse of this is also true. That is, corporate-state endeavors that do not tend to bene#t
stakeholders, according to WEF principles, like the Keystone Pipeline project in the U.S. for example, must be abandoned.
Stakeholder capitalism includes not only the corporate-state response to ecological issues such as climate change, “but also
rethinking their commitments to already-vulnerable communities within their ecosystems.”[7] This is the social justice aspect of
stakeholder capitalism and the Great Reset. These special stakeholders include black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC),
and other special identity groups.
The collectivist planners of the Great Reset intend to drive ownership and control of production to those enrolled in
“stakeholder capitalism” and away from other, non-compliant companies. While these corporate stakeholders would not
necessarily be monopolies per se, the goal of the WEF is to vest as much control over production and distribution in these
corporate stakeholders as possible, while eliminating producers whose products or processes are deemed either unnecessary or
inimical. “Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must
be transformed,” writes Schwab.
Because the Great Reset vests power and control in major corporations and the state, it does not represent standard “socialism”
or “communism” in the usual senses of those terms. It does, however, represent a kind of socialism. I have referred to this system
variously as “neo-feudalism,”[8] “corporate socialism,”[9] and as “capitalism with Chinese characteristics.”[10] Each of these
designations captures something about this system that the Great Reset envisions and aims to bring about. The WEF
anticipates a neo-feudalist, corporate-state-run socialism that would resemble the Chinese communist system of state-run
capitalism under Communist Party rule, only with corporate partners controlling much more decision-making than in China.
It involves a decidedly two-tiered system, with favored corporations and the state on top, and “actually existing socialism” for
the vast majority—like state socialism, only with the role usually reserved for the state under standard socialism undertaken by
corporate-state partners of the stakeholder economy—like feudalism, only with an enhanced, supposedly comfortable serfdom.
The Great Reset would bring about what I’m calling “corporate socialism” or “‘capitalism’ with Chinese characteristics.” I’ll
explain.
First, by corporate socialism, I don’t mean what Democratic socialists and other leftists mean by that term—“corporate welfare”
including tax cuts and bailouts for corporations at the expense of workers, etc. My use follows the late historian and Hoover
Institute scholar, Anthony B. Sutton:
Old John D. Rockefeller and his 19th century fellow capitalists were convinced of one absolute truth: that no great
monetary wealth could be accumulated under the impartial rules of a competitive laissez faire society. The only sure road
to the acquisition of massive wealth was monopoly: drive out your competitors, reduce competition, eliminate laissez-faire,
and above all get state protection for your industry through compliant politicians and government regulation. This last
avenue yields a legal monopoly, and a legal monopoly always leads to wealth.
This robber baron schema is also, under different labels, the socialist plan. The difference between a corporate state
monopoly and a socialist state monopoly is essentially only the identity of the group controlling the power structure...We
call this phenomenon of corporate legal monopoly—market control acquired by using political in'uence—by the name of
corporate socialism.[11]
I recognize that monopolies are rare, and that corporate socialism is never fully achieved. I point to a tendency toward corporate
socialism via a relational networking of the state with preferred corporate producers. The corporate socialist tendency is
toward a two-tiered economy, with would-be monopolies and the state on top, and “actually existing socialism” for the
majority. As Roger Scruton noted, “[a]ctually-existing socialism” is a “[t]erm used in the former communist countries to
describe them as they really were, rather than as the official theory required them to be.”[12] Corporate socialism involves a new
actually existing socialism.
‘Capitalism' with Chinese characteristics, on the other hand, represents a play on the Chinese Communist Party's description of
its economic system. Several decades ago, as China's growing reliance on the for-pro#t sectors of its economy could no longer
be credibly denied by the CCP, its leadership approved the slogan “socialism with Chinese characteristics” to describe its
economic system.[14] Formulated by Deng Xiaoping, the phrase became an essential component of the CCP's attempt to
rationalize Chinese capitalist development under a socialist political system.
According to the party, the growing privatization of the Chinese economy was to be a temporary phase—lasting as long as a
hundred years according to some party leaders—on the way to a classless society of full socialism-communism. The party
leaders claimed, and still maintain, that socialism with Chinese characteristics was necessary in China’s case because China was
a “backward” agrarian country when socialism was introduced—too early, it was suggested. China needed a capitalist booster
shot.
With the slogan, the party was able to suggest that China had been an exception to the orthodox Marxist position that
socialism arrives only after the development of capitalism—although Marx himself deviated from his own formula late in life.
At the same time, the slogan allowed the CCP to con#rm the orthodox Marxist position. China’s socialist revolution had come
before developed industrial capitalism—an exception to orthodox Marxism. Capitalism was thus introduced into China’s
economic system later—a con#rmation of orthodox Marxism.
Stripped of its socialist ideological pretensions, socialism with Chinese characteristics, or the Chinese system itself, amounts to
a socialist or communist state increasingly funded by capitalist economic development. The difference between the former
Soviet Union and contemporary China is that when it became obvious that a socialist economy had failed, the former gave up
its socialist economic pretenses, while the latter did not.
Whether the CCP leaders believe their own rhetoric or not, the ideological gymnastics on display are nevertheless spectacular.
On its face, the slogan embeds and glosses over a seemingly obvious contradiction in an attempt to sanctify or “re-communize”
Chinese capitalist development as a precondition of full socialism-communism.
I’m not the #rst to make a play on the CCP’s rationalization of China’s capitalist development with the phrase “capitalism with
Chinese characteristics.” Yasheng Huang et al. have written a book by the same title.13 But for my purposes, the work of scholar
Wei Zhao ably characterizes the Chinese system in “What is capitalism with Chinese characteristics?”:
[The] Chinese social structure is a kind of relational market, which has a tributary State on the top and [the] remaining
part is composed by small merchant capitalists, without any middle class in between. Therefore[,] there is no separate
sphere of “economy” or “market” from [the] political State or communitarian society.[15]
The Great Reset, I am suggesting, effectively represents the development of the Chinese system in the West, only in reverse.
Whereas the Chinese political class began with a socialist political system and introduced “capitalism” (or privately held forpro#t institutions) later, the West began with capitalism and is aiming to implement a socialist political system now. It’s as if
the Western oligarchy looked to the “socialism” on display in China, and said, “yes, we want it.” This Chinese-style system would
include vastly increased state intervention in the economy on the one hand, and the kind of authoritarian measures that the
Chinese government uses to control the population, on the other.
Now that the objectives, as I see them, are on the table, let’s look at contemporary phenomena and how they are moving us in
this direction.
First, the lockdowns. The COVID-19 lockdowns have been moving us toward the corporate socialism of the Great Reset. The
draconian lockdown measures employed by leaders of nation-states, regions, and cities just so happen to be doing the work that
corporate socialists like the WEF and their collaborators want done. In addition to destabilizing nation-states, these policies
and politics are helping to destroy small businesses, thus eliminating competitors.
As the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) points out, in the U.S., the lockdowns and riots have combined to level a
one-two punch that is knocking out millions of small businesses - “the backbone of the American economy” - all across
America. FEE reported that
7.5 million small businesses in America are at risk of closing their doors permanently. A more recent survey showed that
even with federal loans, close to half of all small business owners say they’ll have to shut down for good. The toll has
already been severe. In New York alone, stay-at-home orders have forced the permanent closure of more than 100,000 small
businesses.[16]
As small businesses have been crushed by the draconian lockdowns, corporate giants like Amazon have thrived like never
before. As BBC News noted, at least three of the tech giants—Amazon, Apple, and Facebook—appreciated massive gains during
the lockdowns. During the three months ending in June 2020, Amazon’s “quarterly pro#t of $5.2bn (£4bn) was the biggest since
the company's start in 1994 and came despite heavy spending on protective gear and other measures due to the virus.”
[17] Amazon’s sales rose by 40 percent in the three months ending in June.
As reported by TechCrunch, Facebook and its WhatsApp and Instagram platforms saw a 15 percent rise in users, which brought
revenues to a grand total of $17.74 billion in the #rst quarter.[18] Facebook's total users climbed to 3 billion in March 2020, or
two-thirds of the world’s internet users, a record. Apple's revenues soared during the same period, with quarterly earnings
rising 11 percent year-on-year to $59.7 billion. “Walmart, the country's largest grocer, said pro#ts rose 4 percent, to $3.99
billion,” during the #rst quarter of 2020, as reported by the Washington Post.[19] (It is interesting to note that the owner of
the Washington Post is also the founder and CEO of Amazon. And the Post has supported state lockdowns and closures that have
greatly bene#tted Amazon.)
More recent Yelp data indicates that 60% of business closures due to the mandated coronavirus lockdowns, closures, and partial
closures are now permanent.[20] Meanwhile, the corporate giants have consolidated their grip on the economy, as well as their
power over individual expression on the Internet and beyond. Thus, it would appear that the covid lockdowns, shutdowns, and
partial closings are just what the Great Resetters ordered, although I am not hereby suggesting that they did order them. But
the lockdowns have done much work toward resetting the economy in the direction of the Great Reset. They have eliminated
competition for the corporate would-be monopolists and moved us in the direction of the two-tiered, neo-feudalistic,
corporate-socialist economy.
The second element that I’ll explain in terms of the Great Reset may not be as obvious as the #rst, because it is ideological. Just
how do the planners mean to establish the reset ideologically? That is, how would a reset of the mass mind come to pass that
would allow for the many elements of the Great Reset to be put into place—without mass rebellion, that is? After all, if the
Great Reset is to take hold, some degree of conformity on the part of the population will be necessary—despite the enhanced,
extended, and more precise control over the population that transhumanist technology and a centralized digital currency
would afford.
This is the function of ideology. Ideology, as the Marxist historian of science Richard Lewontin has argued, works “by
convincing people that the society in which they live is just and fair, or if not just and fair then inevitable, and that it is quite
useless to resort to violence.”[21] Ideology establishes the "social legitimation" that Lewontin sees as necessary for gaining the
assent of the ruled. “The battleground is in people's heads, and if the battle is won on that ground then the peace and
tranquility of society are guaranteed.”[22] Ideology on this account is not the same as world view. It is rather the mental
programming necessary for domination and control short of the use of force. Ideological indoctrination is easier, less messy, and
less expensive than state and state-supported violence.
Some might argue that the ideology of the Great Reset is simply socialist. After all, in many respects, socialist ideology
supports what the Great Reset promises to deliver. There are those who would welcome, on socialist grounds, the “fairness,”
“equality,” or “equity” that the Great Reset promises. Socialists might overlook or excuse the oligarchical control of society on
the basis of the supposed fairness, equality, or equity among the mass of the population, and on the presumption that the
oligarchy will be overthrown in the not-so-distant future. Socialism embeds a levelling predisposition that puts a premium on
“equality” among the visible majority, even when that equality comes as a great loss for many otherwise “middle-class” subjects.
In fact, when I brie'y entertained the rantings of members of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA,[23] including its
leader, Bob Avakian, they admitted to me that worldwide socialism would mean reduced standards of living for much of the
world, especially in the United States. They had no problem with this; in fact, they seemed to relish the prospect. No doubt,
Ludwig Von Mises suggested, socialism is fueled by resentment and envy for the property owner. Much could be said about
socialists’ apparent approval, or at least conditional and temporary acceptance, of big monopolistic oligarchical corporatists
and their preference for big business over small.[24] Socialists see monopolization under capitalism as inevitable, as necessary
for producing a more consolidated target to be overthrown, and as a sign of the imminent collapse of capitalism and the
coming socialist-communist apocalypse.
Although socialist ideology supports the Great Reset, wokeness actually suits it better. As I write in Beyond Woke, “[a]ccording
to the social justice creed, being ‘woke’ is the political awakening that stems from the emergence of consciousness and
conscientiousness regarding social and political injustice. Wokeness is the indelible inscription of the awareness of social
injustice on the conscious mind, eliciting the sting of conscience, which compels the newly woke to change their beliefs and
behaviors.”[25] Wokeness is enhanced awareness of social and political injustice and the determination to eradicate it. But what
could wokeness have to do with the Great Reset?
Wokeness is not aimed at the sufferers whose complaints, or imagined complaints, it means to redress. Wokeness works on the
majority, the supposed bene#ciaries of injustice. It does so by making the majority understand that it has bene#tted from
“privilege” and preference—based on skin color (whiteness), gender (patriarchy), sexual proclivity (heteronormativity),
birthplace (colonialism, imperialism, and #rst worldism), gender identity (cis gender privilege), and the domination of nature
(speciesism)—to name some of the major culprits. The list could go on and is emended, seemingly by the day. This majority
must be rehabilitated. The masses must understand that they have gained whatever advantages they have hitherto enjoyed on
the basis of the unfair treatment of others.
And what are the effects of being repeatedly reprimanded as such, of being told that one has been the bene#ciary of unmerited
“privilege,” that one’s relative wealth and well-being have come at the expense of oppressed, marginalized, and misused Others?
Shame, guilt, remorse, unworthiness. And what are the expected attitudinal and behavioral adjustments to be taken by the
majority? They are to expect less. Under woke ideology, one will be expected and more likely to forfeit one’s property and
rights, because even one's property and rights, nay, especially one’s property and rights, have come at the expense of others.
Thus, wokeness works by habituating the majority to the reduced expectations of the Great Reset. Wokeness indoctrinates the
majority into the propertyless future (for them at least) of the Great Reset, while gratifying the left, its main ideological
propagators, with a sense of moral superiority, even as they too are scheduled to become bereft of prospects.
Cancel culture is a tool of woke ideology, a weapon for debunking the “privileged,” a levelling perfectly aligned with resetting
the economy. Cancel culture not only reduces the status of its victims but also it serves a premonitory role for others, the
onlookers of cancellations. Cancel culture keeps the majority in line as wokeness erases their “privilege,” drawing down the
majority into the propertyless future.
Woke ideology extends well beyond its application to social groups, however. It is being institutionalized in schools, cultural
institutions, the media and social media, and, most critically for the Great Reset, in corporate policies and even on the stock
exchanges. The market has instituted an environmental, social, and governance index (ESG) to allow investors to direct
investments toward ESG-worthy companies. While this index serves merely as a recommendation at present, indications are
that banks, asset managers, and other networked corporate institutions may use the scores as means for squeezing noncompliant, non-woke players out of the market.
Blackrock, Inc., the world's largest asset manager, is solidly behind the woke Great Reset program. In a 2021 letter to CEOs,
[26] Blackrock CEO Larry Fink declares that “climate risk is investment risk,” and that “the creation of sustainable index
investments has enabled a massive acceleration of capital towards companies better prepared to address climate risk.” Linking
the pandemic to climate change, Fink states that the pandemic accelerated rather than decreasing the 'ow of funds toward
sustainable investments. Using the language of the WEF, Fink suggests companies that take corporate stakeholders into account
will see the lion’s share of investments in the future:
We have long believed that our clients, as shareholders in your company, will bene#t if you can create enduring,
sustainable value for all of your stakeholders…
As more and more investors choose to tilt their investments towards sustainability-focused companies, the tectonic shift
we are seeing will accelerate further. And because this will have such a dramatic impact on how capital is allocated, every
management team and board will need to consider how this will impact their company’s stock.
Coming from the CEO of Blackrock, Fink’s letter is more than a report to CEOs. It is an implicit threat.
Big Tech stands to gain directly from the Great Reset agenda. This cartel's attempts to eliminate competing platforms and views
are part of its monopolistic consolidation efforts. Mainstream and social media players censor all views that run contrary to the
promoted, official narratives regarding climate change, COVID, vaccines, systemic racism, transgenderism, and all the other
essential narrative elements of the Great Reset. In sum, Big Digital Tech represents the leading edge and the ideological
communications apparatus of corporate socialism.
While every aspect of the Great Reset involves technology, according to Schwab, the Great Reset will be expedited by “the
Fourth Industrial Revolution.” The Fourth Industrial Revolution is a topic worthy of book-length treatises. I will merely offer a
rough sketch today. The Fourth Industrial Revolution involves transhumanism, which includes the expansion of genomics,
nanotechnology, and robotics and their penetration into human bodies and brains. Of course, with the greater incorporation of
robotics in production, the fourth Industrial Revolution involves the redundancy of human labor in increasing sectors, to be
replaced by automation. Estimates are that 47% of all current jobs may be eliminated by 2030. But moreover, Schwab hails the
use of nanotechnology and brain scans to predict and preempt human behavior.
The Great Reset means the issuance of medical passports, soon to be digitized, as well as the transparency of medical records
inclusive of medical history, genetic makeup, and disease status. But it could include the implanting of microchips that would
read and report on genetic makeup and brain states such that “[e]ven crossing a national border might one day involve a
detailed brain scan to assess an individual’s security risk.”[27]
On the genomic front, the Great Reset includes advances in genetic engineering and the fusion of genetics, nanotechnology,
and robotics.
In military terms, the Great Reset entails the creation of new battle spaces including cyberspaces and the human brain as a
battle space.
In terms of governance, the Great Reset means increasingly centralized, coordinated, and expanded government and
“governmentalities,” the convergence of corporations and states, and the digitalization of governmental functions, including,
with the use of 5G and predictive algorithms, real-time tracking and surveillance of bodies in space or the “anticipatory
governance” of human and systems behavior.
All this being said, the Great Reset is but a coordinated propaganda and public relations campaign shrouded under a cloak of
inevitability. Rather than a mere conspiracy theory, the Great Reset is the “wishful thinking”[28] of socioeconomic planners to
have corporate stakeholders and governments adopt the desiderata of the WEF. Judging by the WEF's extensive list of corporate
partners,[29] and the participation of nation states, it appears to be succeeding.
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2 Davey Alba, “The Baseless ‘Great Reset’ Conspiracy Theory Rises Again,” New York Times, Nov. 17,
2020, https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/17/world/covid-19-coronavirus#the-baseless-great-reset-conspiracy-theory-risesagain.
3 Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret, COVID-19: The Great Reset (n.p.: Forum Publishing, 2020), p. 57.
4 Kokemuller, Neil. “Does a Corporation Have Other Stakeholders Other Than Its Shareholders?” Small Business - Chron.com.
Chron.com, October 26, 2016, https://smallbusiness.chron.com/corporation-other-stakeholders-other-its-shareholders63538.html.
5 Schwab and Malleret, COVID-19, pp. 88-89.
6 Schwab and Malleret, COVID-19, p. 78.
7 Forum, World Economic. “The Bold Steps Business Leaders Must Take On Social Justice.” Forbes. Forbes Magazine, January
26, 2021, https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2021/01/25/the-bold-steps-business-leaders-must-take-on-socialjustice/?sh=113639621e61.
8 Rectenwald, Michael. “What Is the Great Reset? Part I: Reduced Expectations and Bio-Techno-Feudalism: Michael
Rectenwald,” Mises Institute. Mises Institute, December 11, 2020, https://mises.org/wire/what-great-reset-part-i-reducedexpectations-and-bio-techno-feudalism.
9 Rectenwald, Michael. “The Great Reset, Part II: Corporate Socialism: Michael Rectenwald.” Mises Institute. Mises Institute,
December 22, 2020, https://mises.org/wire/great-reset-part-ii-corporate-socialism.
10 Rectenwald, Michael. “The Great Reset, Part III: Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Michael Rectenwald.” Mises
Institute. Mises Institute, December 28, 2020. https://mises.org/wire/great-reset-part-iii-capitalism-chinese-characteristics.
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12 Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Political Thought, by Roger Scruton, 3d ed. (New York: Macmillan Publishers, 2007), s.v.
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13 Ian Wilson, “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: China and the Theory of the Initial Stage of Socialism,” Politics 24, no. 1
(September 2007): 77–84.
14 Huang, Yasheng, Sally Stein, and Allan Sekula. Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
15 Zhao, Wei. “What Is Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics? Perspective on State, Market, and Society.” Research and
Regulation: Colloque International, 2015, p. 4.
16 Jon Miltmore and Dan Sanchez, “America’s Small Business Owners Have Been Horribly Abused during These Riots and
Lockdowns. That Will Have Consequences,” Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), June 5,
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17 “Amazon, Facebook and Apple Thriving in Lockdown,” BBC, July 13, 2020, https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53602596.
18 Lucas Matney, “The Lockdown Is Driving People to Facebook,” TechCrunch, Apr. 29,
2020, https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/29/the-quarantine-is-driving-record-usage-growth-at-facebook/.
19 Abha Bhattarai, "Sales Soar at Walmart and Home Depot during the Pandemic," Washington Post, May 19,
2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/05/19/walmart-earnings-economy-coronavirus/.
20 Sundaram, Anjali. “Yelp Data Shows 60% of Business Closures Due to the Coronavirus Pandemic Are Now Permanent.”
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21 R.C. Lewontin, Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA (New York: HarperPerennial, n.d.), p. 6.
22 Lewontin, Biology as Ideology, p. 7.
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24 Matt Bruenig, “Small Businesses Are Overrated,” Jacobin, Jan. 16, 2018, https://jacobinmag.com/2018/01/small-businessesworkers-wages.
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27 Klaus Schwab and Nicholas Davis, Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: A Guide to Building a Better
World (New York: Currency, 2018), p. 173.
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(Originally published on CLG News.)
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shouldn't be called libertarian at all.
What else is wokeness but attempts
to… https://t.co/cQRbAoIVEb
Mar 18, 2021, 2:20 PM
Michael Rectenwald
Open borders are an assault on
private property. Tax payers are the
rightful owners of the nation. Only
their conse…
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Mar 18, 2021, 2:04 PM
Michael Rectenwald
Lew Rockwell's take on immigration
is exceedingly relevant in the
current context. Who owns the U.S.?
Its rightful…
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Mar 18, 2021, 1:58 PM
Michael Rectenwald
Two years after leaving NYU and
academia and I'm still mentoring
NYU students, who write to me
regularly. They ough…
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Mar 17, 2021, 2:34 PM
Michael Rectenwald
I can think of a whole host of
"journalists" I wish felt the same way.
https://t.co/Sozj6xdIbu
Mar 17, 2021, 12:52 PM
Michael Rectenwald
My interview from yesterday with
@frankgaffney on Securing America
Radio about the leftist totalitarian
takeover.…
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Mar 17, 2021, 11:40 AM
Michael Rectenwald
My interview on the radical left with
@frankgaffney for Securing
America: https://t.co/oCIDKjBZ2U
Mar 16, 2021, 11:29 AM
Michael Rectenwald
Good morning and welcome to the
ongoing liquidation of the western
world!
Mar 16, 2021, 8:40 AM
Michael Rectenwald
RT @dpovey1: Phrases like
"immigrants: they get the job done"
indicate to me that the American
oligarchy feels so secure in its…
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Mar 14, 2021, 4:12 AM
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