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The agenda is explicit: to make the world fit for a capitalism of the 4th industrial revolution. This means commodifying every aspect of nature while further marginalising human beings from the natural, social and moral resources that they've evolved to flourish from in freedom. https://twitter.com/wef/status/1321874377139490818
There’s a carefully crafted narrative that at the root of the world’s ills is neoliberalism, so anyone opposing the new more totalitarian form of capitalism can be criticised as apologist for neoliberalism. This was used e.g. to tar signatories of Great Barrington Declaration.
Neoliberalism was the revolutionary change in global capitalism introduced in the Reagan-Thatcher era. By 2008 it was plainly failing-with global finance living on borrowed time, while eco devastation was creating uninsurable risks. Control needed reasserting. But from above...
Basically, there are two ways of opposing neoliberalism: tightening control by those in command of massive capital (the wealthy power elite) or gaining control from below through international socialist solidarity. (Centrism is acquiescing in former with lip service to latter.)
For more on these themes, see the discussion with Anahí Wiedenbrüg and John O’Neill of my recent book Global Justice and Finance. The discussion is available as pre-print here: https://www.academia.edu/44279470/Disenchanting_Global_Justice_Liberalism_Capitalism_and_Finance;
published version: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41296-020-00440-2
published version: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41296-020-00440-2
