Klaus' father Eugen Schwab was a Nazi. I personally would say that Schwab is more in the style of Technocratic Oligarchy or something similar. Though each of those systems of authoritarianism share features with each other. Anyway, here's some stuff put forth by others on the subject. Frankly I didn't vote for any of our leaders to kow-tow to the WEF, and yet that seems to be their priority long before anything their electorate actually wants. Not sure if it's "fascism" by whatever definition, but it's enough for me to say "Hell NO!!"
@sun Seems kinda redundant to resist fascism by moving to a fascist country controlled by WEF assets. I guess it's not fascism when it conforms to their agenda and ideals.
@toiletpaper@ooignignoktoo@sun@yomiel there are kind of parts of what he outlines in that book that aren't unsalvageable. its fine to say something like we're going to have some people whos job is to show up to the meetings and argue from the POV of environmental pollution and have them argue against some car manufacturing people or whatever
the subtle part is that schwab doesn't consider individual liberty to be important at all. none of the stakeholders are for civilians. they're all different columns of a zaibatsu (vaguely.)
@toiletpaper@Zettour@lain@sun there used to be a lot of arguments that could be made in favor of the west, like >free speech >free markets >free movement >little bureaucracy >little police state >little corruption >little censorship >good healthcare >good government but now it's just "do you want gay pride parades and for kids to secretly be chemically castrated?" and that's perhaps not as appealing as getting your books delivered by Yandex robot
It's interesting how all these places like Georgia, Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk, Transnistria, etc, seem to prefer being part of Russia to living under the influence of US boot lickers.
Considering that Ukraine's government experienced two different CIA orchestrated coup's and ended up with a decade long ethnic cleansing at the hands of an unelected government run largely by NeoNazis, it's not really far from the truth.
@apropos@Zettour@sun@toiletpaper the loss of freedom of thought really hit the hardest. especially in europe, people are scared to have any thought outside of the 'current thing', and even more scared to voice it. people in most of asia, south america, the middle east don't have that problem.
I didn't call him a fascist. I was just citing some authors who did. Personally having looked into the varied definitions of fascism from Mussolini to Hitler to Orwell to Umberto Eco, etc, it seems to have a wide array of meanings depending on which fascist is talking and in what context. Even fascists don't have a coherent definition. It's just a list of bullet points that a given fascist group may or may not cherry pick from in their particular conception of the ideology. As Orwell said in 1944, the word is practically meaningless and has become synonymous with "bully".
>Not sure if it's "fascism" by whatever definition, but it's enough for me to say "Hell NO!!" Then you should be careful no to misuse words.
I'm not supporting the WEF, I don't like globalist neoliberal think tanks either, especially ones with opinions as shit as the WEF. But you should be careful the words you use to describe things.