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  Fascism Rebranded: Exposing the Great Reset

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by Paul Cudenec
<https://network23.org/paulcudenec/2021/07/10/fascism-rebranded-exposing-the-great-reset/>

I didn’t see the Covid moment coming, of course. Who could have
imagined, even at the start of 2020, that we were heading into a Brave
New World of lockdowns and curfews, of travel bans, vaccine passports
and police-state restrictions on every aspect of our lives?

But for many years I had understood that our society risked heading in a
totalitarian direction and that, far from being the opposite of
contemporary “liberalism”, as we are always told, fascism was in fact a
mode into which this hypocritical system could switch at any given time,
when it felt the need.

This is why, when I decided to create a pdf collection of my recent
online essays (/here/
<https://winteroakpress.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/fascism-rebranded2021.pdf>),
I chose to begin with /Organic radicalism: bringing down the fascist
machine
<https://winteroak.org.uk/2018/07/10/organic-radicalism-bringing-down-the-fascist-machine/>/,
published on the Winter Oak website three years ago today, on July 10, 2018.

Here we see how the dominant complex paints a false picture of
historical fascism not just to smear its own current opponents, but also
to hide its own close relationship with that very same monstrosity.

The same theme features in /Liberalism: the two-faced tyranny of wealth
<https://orgrad.wordpress.com/articles/liberalism-the-two-faced-tyranny-of-wealth/>/,
which appeared on the Organic Radicals website on the cusp of the Covid
crisis (March 11, 2020) and in which I conclude: “Liberalism has for
many centuries been a convenient disguise for the rule of money, the
concentration of power and wealth in the hands of a small but very
dominant elite”.

In the meantime, I had mused on the false idea of quantity as overall
increase (/Multiplication is division
<https://network23.org/paulcudenec/2019/06/05/multiplication-is-division/>/,
June 5, 2019), inveighed against the life-denying contemporary mindset
(/Smash vitaphobia!
<https://network23.org/paulcudenec/2019/12/28/smash-vitaphobia/>/ December
28, 2019) and reminded readers that, however grim the society which we
find ourselves enduring, /Another world exists within us
<https://network23.org/paulcudenec/2020/01/13/another-world-exists-within-us/>/ (January
13, 2020).

By March 29, 2020, my direct response to the Covid clampdown was under
way, with a short piece in Winter Oak’s /Acorn/ bulletin entitled /We
don’t want your fascist future!
<https://winteroak.org.uk/2020/03/29/the-acorn-56/>/

/Reclaiming the revolutionary wisdom of the past
<https://orgrad.wordpress.com/articles/reclaiming-the-revolutionary-wisdom-of-the-past/>/ (April
22, 2020) is a contribution to the Organic Radicals site which takes as
its starting point a study of the Situationist thinker Guy Debord
<https://orgrad.wordpress.com/a-z-of-thinkers/guy-debord/>.

I argue that a critique of current society which does not challenge the
whole reality of that society – a technocratic industrial capitalist
reality – will always be built on sand.

If we are ever to successfully resist and bring down this ecocidal
system, we will need to be inspired by thinking which has its roots
outside that system, which existed before that system took hold of our
lives and our minds.

“We look to the past to see what we have lost – what has been stolen
from us by the modern capitalist world”.

<https://winteroakpress.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/resist-41r.jpg>

/Resist the Fourth Industrial Repression!
<https://network23.org/paulcudenec/2020/04/25/resist-the-fourth-industrial-repression/>/,
published on April 25, 2020, is a defiant refusal of everything which
the ruling clique has been trying to impose upon us under the feeble
excuse of “fighting the virus”.

I warn: “The 4IR is a death cult which dreams of wiping out everything
that is natural, everything that is wild, everything that is free”.

In /Anarchists against freedom!
<https://network23.org/paulcudenec/2020/04/26/anarchists-against-freedom/>/ (April
26, 2020) I hit back at certain so-called “anarchists” who had gone so
far in cowing to the official Covid line that they were claiming that a
love of freedom was in some way “right-wing”.

/The rebels will return
<https://network23.org/paulcudenec/2020/04/29/the-rebels-will-return/>/ (April
29, 2020) provides a larger context to this tragic ideological collapse
and reconfirms my commitment to anarchist ideals, regardless of the
state of the anarchist movement at any given time.

In /Money, lies and power
<https://network23.org/paulcudenec/2020/05/21/money-lies-and-power/>/ (May
21, 2020), I raise the possibility that the ruling class now envisages
going beyond the accumulation of money as the means to its domination
and is instead planning a world in which it simply has total physical
control over the rest of us, who will be nothing but slaves.

“They have obviously calculated that they can get away with this, that
their wealth, power and lies are now so all-conquering, and the majority
of humankind so supine, gutless and malleable, that they will simply be
able to trample all over us, for ever. It is up to us to prove them wrong”.

/Fascism, newnormalism and the left
<https://network23.org/paulcudenec/2020/07/26/fascism-newnormalism-and-the-left/>/ (July
26, 2020) was inspired by a book on Italian fascism which I came across
in an extremely random way and which clarified my thinking in a number
of ways.

In particular, it helped me see how the dehumanising New Normal of the
Great Reset is very much a continuation of the original fascist project
under Benito Mussolini, in which 20th century industrial plutocracy
sought to accelerate its production by reshaping living beings into
regimented and obedient units of human capital.

/The Great Battle for the Future 
<https://orgrad.wordpress.com/articles/the-great-battle-for-the-future/>/(August
18, 2020) appeared first on the Organic Radicals site and
explores Silvia Federici’s
<https://orgrad.wordpress.com/a-z-of-thinkers/silvia-federici/> analysis
of the Middles Ages, when ordinary people had escaped the outright
slavery of the Roman Empire and were rebelling against authority to
reclaim a better future – one based on social justice, freedom and local
autonomy.

This massive uprising was crushed by the emergence of capitalism and
then industrialism. As Federici explains, capitalism was the
“counter-revolution” that destroyed the possibilities that had emerged
from the anti-feudal struggle.

I point out the striking parallels between this historical moment and
the counter-revolutions represented by fascism, in the 20th century, and
the Great Reset <https://winteroak.org.uk/the-great-reset/>, in the 21st.

/Klaus Schwab and His Great Fascist Reset
<https://winteroak.org.uk/2020/10/05/klaus-schwab-and-his-great-fascist-reset/>/,
published on October 5, 2020, is by a long way the most-read article I
have ever penned, despite its length. It has since been reposted on many
websites and translated into various languages.

Here I take a close look at the agenda being led by the World Economic
Forum, via three books by its boss, Schwab. I explain: “He and his
accomplices are using the Covid-19 crisis to bypass democratic
accountability, to override opposition, to accelerate their agenda and
to impose it on the rest of humankind against our will in what he terms
a ‘Great Reset’.”

/Dismantling tyranny
<https://winteroak.org.uk/2020/12/14/dismantling-tyranny/>/ (December
14, 2020) looks at the long-term issues which underlie the Great Reset
and insists that these have to be resolved if we are ever to make a
clean break with the current system.

“If we were able to pull back from the brink of this global totalitarian
coup, there would be no point in returning to the pre-Covid status quo,
as all the conditions would remain in place for the global ruling elite
to try the same thing again, a few years down the road, using a
different trick”.

Impact capitalism is a phenomenon which forms a central part of the New
Normal agenda, and which is little understood. Researcher Alison
McDowell <https://wrenchinthegears.com/> has been producing some crucial
information and analysis on this issue and in /Impactor Alert! 
<https://winteroak.org.uk/2021/03/16/impactor-alert/>/(March 16, 2021) I
try to convey the essence of what she has been showing us.

/Ten things we have learned during the Covid coup
<https://winteroak.org.uk/2021/05/05/the-acorn-65/>/ is
an /Acorn/ piece, published on May 5, 2021. It sums up, in a few words,
much of what I have been writing about in recent years.

Finally, there is /Fascism: three brief insights 
<https://network23.org/paulcudenec/2021/06/10/fascism-three-brief-insights/>/(June
10, 2021), which seems to me to nicely complete this particular loop in
an ongoing spiral of reflection.

Download /Fascism Rebranded: Exposing the Great Reset /for free here
<https://winteroakpress.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/fascism-rebranded2021.pdf>.

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