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As I've been saying for some time. It's right out of the disaster capitalism playbook. While the conspiracy theories about this are loony, there is a certain truth to them. This is an extension of the neoliberal project for installing global corporatism as the basis of global governance through internationalism, of which international interventionism is a part. Nothing new to see here, really. The tactics have changed with changing conditions. That is all.The idea of stakeholder capitalism and multi-stakeholder partnerships might sound warm and fuzzy, until we dig deeper and realise that this actually means giving corporations more power over society, and democratic institutions less....Instead of corporations serving many stakeholders, in the multi-stakeholder model of global
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As I've been saying for some time. It's right out of the disaster capitalism playbook. While the conspiracy theories about this are loony, there is a certain truth to them. This is an extension of the neoliberal project for installing global corporatism as the basis of global governance through internationalism, of which international interventionism is a part. Nothing new to see here, really. The tactics have changed with changing conditions. That is all.The idea of stakeholder capitalism and multi-stakeholder partnerships might sound warm and fuzzy, until we dig deeper and realise that this actually means giving corporations more power over society, and democratic institutions less....Instead of corporations serving many stakeholders, in the multi-stakeholder model of global
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As I've been saying for some time.
It's right out of the disaster capitalism playbook. While the conspiracy theories about this are loony, there is a certain truth to them. This is an extension of the neoliberal project for installing global corporatism as the basis of global governance through internationalism, of which international interventionism is a part. Nothing new to see here, really. The tactics have changed with changing conditions. That is all.
The idea of stakeholder capitalism and multi-stakeholder partnerships might sound warm and fuzzy, until we dig deeper and realise that this actually means giving corporations more power over society, and democratic institutions less....
Instead of corporations serving many stakeholders, in the multi-stakeholder model of global governance, corporations are promoted to being official stakeholders in global decision-making, while governments are relegated to being one of many stakeholders. In practice, corporations become the main stakeholders, while governments take a backseat role, and civil society is mainly window dressing.…
Bill Mitchell and Michael Hudson have been pointing this out for years. It lies at the basis of the formation of the EU and EZ, and it goes back to the post WWII "reset" installing international institutions like the World Bank and the IMF, as well as dollar-centric system of Bretton Woods and the independence of central banks. The roots of this can be trace to the post WWI era as described by historian Carroll Quigley, who was given insider access. He explained that the idea is basically benevolent in that the "master of the universe" regard themselves and best qualified to run global affairs. You know, noblesse oblige. So meet the new aristocracy of wealth and power that succeeded the former national aristocracies eliminated or neutered in the wake of WWI.
Naked Capitalism
Conspiracy Theories Aside, There Is Something Fishy About the Great Reset
Ivan Wecke, a political scientist and writer
Ivan Wecke, a political scientist and writer
Originally published at openDemocracy