More than 60 years ago, Mao launched the disastrous Great Leap Forward. Progressive elites today are trying to force a Great Leap II in the form of the Great Reset. If implemented, it will be even more disastrous than Mao's original folly. (Excerpt fromThe Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty. Originally published on the Mises Institute Wire. December 27, 2023.)
We can take as our inspiration for this Grand Refusal the iconic character of Howard Beale, from the classic Paddy Chayefsky movie, Network. Although he delivered his message through television, this newscaster gone rogue encouraged his viewers to turn off their televisions, to thrust open their windows, and to scream, “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!” (Originally posted by the American Freedom Alliance. October 9, 2022. Delivered at the American Freedom Alliance Global Puppet Masters conference on October 1, 2022. Click here or on title.)
To understand the Great Reset, then, we must recognize that the project represents the completion of a decades-long and ongoing attempt to destroy classical liberalism (the free market, free speech, and liberal democracy), American constitutionalism, and national sovereignty. The idea of resetting capitalism suggests that capitalism had previously been pure. But the Great Reset is the culmination of a much longer collectivization process and democratic socialist project, with their corresponding growth of the state. (Originally published on the Mises Institute Wire. May 28, 2022. Audio version.)
Michael Rectenwald takes on the progressive canard of "socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor," in which the government protects the wealthy but throws everyone else to the tender mercies of rapacious capitalism. (Originally published on the Mises Institute Wire. April 21, 2022.)
The Great Reset combines resets in all conceivable domains of human life: economic, environmental, geopolitical, governmental, industrial, technological, social, and individual. (Presented at "The Great Reset?" Hillsdale College's Center for Constructive Alternatives. Sunday, November 7, 2021, at 4 PM. Click here or on title.)
The Great Reset combines resets in all conceivable domains of human life: economic, environmental, geopolitical, governmental, industrial, technological, social, and individual. (Presented at "The Great Reset?" Hillsdale College's Center for Constructive Alternatives. Sunday, November 7, 2021, at 4 PM.)
The Great Reset, then, is not merely a conspiracy theory; it is an open, avowed, and planned project, and it is well underway. (Originally published on the Mises Wire. November 3, 2021).
The Great Reset is the name of the 50th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, held in June 2020. Interview with Jan Jekielek. American Thought Leaders. EpochTV. 24 September 2021. (Click here or on title.)
“People are losing jobs. They’re losing livelihoods. They’re losing social credibility,” says Michael Rectenwald. “We’re looking at social death, in effect.” In this episode, Michael Rectenwald, author of “Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom,” explains the negative consequences of cancel culture and what “The Great Reset” really is about. A former Marxist and professor at New York University, Rectenwald recently co-founded American Scholars, an emerging education platform that challenges the university model with a low-cost, woke-free alternative.Interview with Jan Jekielek. American Thought Leaders. EpochTV. 16 September 2021. (Click here or on title.)
The topic on our minds is the Great Reset. What is it and how do the lockdowns, “the woke” movement, cancel culture, Big Tech and Big Media censorship, and the BLM/Antifa riots play into this Great Reset? Dr. Michael Rectenwald has a number of interesting ideas connecting all of these things and more. Freedom Loves Company. Revolution.radio. 13 July 2021. (Click here or on title.)
Michael Rectenwald's, What Is The Great Reset, a series in five-parts, is discussed, as well as books by World Economic Forum Founder and Executive Chairman, Klaus Schwab, including "The Fourth Industrial Revolution" and "Covid-19: The Great Reset"; technological changes that will bring about the Great Reset; a grand centralization scheme; a two-tiered system of production; a new normal; neofeudalism; reduced income and carbon use; austerity; transformation of the monetary system via centralized digital currency; 5G-enabled smart city surveillance; social credit scoring system via vaccine passports; political imprisonment; fusion of transhumanist technology with biology – genomics, nanotechnology and robotics; predictive algorithms; climate change and covid crisis pretexts for enacting the Great Reset; military transformation as the mind itself becomes a battlescape; transformation of governance by state/corporate convergence; new ESG stock market index, the Environmental, Social and Governance Index, a scoring system driving investments to approved corporate players; abridgement of individual rights across the board including ownership and the free enterprise system itself; wokeness ideology, the reset of the mass mind, recasts rights as privileges; wrong-think at universities; oligarchic control by a shadowy group.Interview with Bonnie Faulkner. Guns and Butter. 5 July 2021. (Click here or on title.)
Michael Rectenwald joined me to discuss The Great Reset, what it is, how it is being implemented, and why Marxists are backing corporations in this globalization effort. Year Zero. Stranger Encounters Ideas & Action. 21 June 2021. (Click here or on title.)
Dr. Michael Rectenwald discusses how Woke Capitalism and the Digital Gulag or Google Archipelago are coalescing into “corporate-socialism” or what he calls Google Marxism. Its aim is a “one-world monopoly of government” whose expression is most clearly seen today in what is known as “The Great Reset.” China’s technocracy is the model for the whole world and Vaccine Passports are how the “Social Credit Score” system will be rolled out in the West, which is currently underway. Businesses and corporations will also have a Social Credit Score known as the ESG metric, which will evaluate whether companies are adhering to the “Green Agenda” and add numerous regulations and taxes, which ultimately will favor the global monopolies and serve to bankrupt smaller enterprises. Dr. Rectenwald warns us not to give up and to create networks of resistance, islands of freedom, and to develop economic means of independence. Guadalajara Geopolitics Institute in Podcast. Geopolitics & Empire. 2 June 2021. (Click here or on title.)
Ian interviews Dr. Michael Rectenwald about the intersection of cancel culture, woke capitalism, and the Great Reset. What does all of this mean for our future, and how can we stop it? Unsafe Space. 25 March 2021. (Click here or on title.)
The Great Reset would bring about what I’m calling “corporate socialism” or “‘capitalism’ with Chinese characteristics.” I’ll explain. (Originally published in the CLG News. March 10, 2021.)
Meet Michael Rectenwald, Professor of liberal studies at NYU, retired. Actually, he was cancelled...Under discussion, a series of essays on the Great Reset, including corporate socialism, stakeholder capitalism, capitalism with Chinese characteristics, wokeism, and what it all means for us. We draw attention to Frank Furedi’s words on scepticism. The Leighton Smith Podcast. iHeartRadio. 10 March 2021. (Ciick here or on title.)
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? This is the function of ideology. Originally published on the Mises Wire. February 27, 2021. Audio version click here.)
The Great Reset is on everyone’s mind—or should be. It can be blamed for woke madness, cancel culture, COVID lockdowns, Antifa/BLM riots, Big Tech censorship, and the endless propaganda coming out of mainstream media. (Originally published on RT.com. February 21, 2021.)
