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<p>by <a
href="https://network23.org/paulcudenec/2021/07/10/fascism-rebranded-exposing-the-great-reset/">Paul
Cudenec</a></p>
<p>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?</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>This is why, when I decided to create a pdf collection
of my recent online essays (<a
href="https://winteroakpress.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/fascism-rebranded2021.pdf"><em>here</em></a>),
I chose to begin with <em><a
href="https://winteroak.org.uk/2018/07/10/organic-radicalism-bringing-down-the-fascist-machine/">Organic
radicalism: bringing down the fascist machine</a></em>,
published on the Winter Oak website three years ago
today, on July 10, 2018.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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<p>The same theme features in <em><a
href="https://orgrad.wordpress.com/articles/liberalism-the-two-faced-tyranny-of-wealth/">Liberalism:
the two-faced tyranny of wealth</a></em>, 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”.</p>
<p>In the meantime, I had mused on the false idea of
quantity as overall increase (<em><a
href="https://network23.org/paulcudenec/2019/06/05/multiplication-is-division/">Multiplication
is division</a></em>, June 5, 2019), inveighed
against the life-denying contemporary mindset (<em><a
href="https://network23.org/paulcudenec/2019/12/28/smash-vitaphobia/">Smash
vitaphobia!</a></em> December 28, 2019) and reminded
readers that, however grim the society which we find
ourselves enduring, <em><a
href="https://network23.org/paulcudenec/2020/01/13/another-world-exists-within-us/">Another
world exists within us</a></em> (January 13, 2020).</p>
<p>By March 29, 2020, my direct response to the Covid
clampdown was under way, with a short piece in Winter
Oak’s <em>Acorn</em> bulletin entitled <em><a
href="https://winteroak.org.uk/2020/03/29/the-acorn-56/">We
don’t want your fascist future!</a></em></p>
<p><em><a
href="https://orgrad.wordpress.com/articles/reclaiming-the-revolutionary-wisdom-of-the-past/">Reclaiming
the revolutionary wisdom of the past</a></em> (April
22, 2020) is a contribution to the Organic Radicals site
which takes as its starting point a study of the
Situationist thinker <a
href="https://orgrad.wordpress.com/a-z-of-thinkers/guy-debord/">Guy
Debord</a>.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>“We look to the past to see what we have lost – what
has been stolen from us by the modern capitalist world”.</p>
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<p><em><a
href="https://network23.org/paulcudenec/2020/04/25/resist-the-fourth-industrial-repression/">Resist
the Fourth Industrial Repression!</a></em>,
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”.</p>
<p>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”.</p>
<p>In <em><a
href="https://network23.org/paulcudenec/2020/04/26/anarchists-against-freedom/">Anarchists
against freedom!</a></em> (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”.</p>
<p><em><a
href="https://network23.org/paulcudenec/2020/04/29/the-rebels-will-return/">The
rebels will return</a></em> (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.</p>
<p>In <em><a
href="https://network23.org/paulcudenec/2020/05/21/money-lies-and-power/">Money,
lies and power</a></em> (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.</p>
<p>“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”.</p>
<p><em><a
href="https://network23.org/paulcudenec/2020/07/26/fascism-newnormalism-and-the-left/">Fascism,
newnormalism and the left</a></em> (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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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<p><em><a
href="https://orgrad.wordpress.com/articles/the-great-battle-for-the-future/">The
Great Battle for the Future </a></em>(August 18,
2020) appeared first on the Organic Radicals site and
explores <a
href="https://orgrad.wordpress.com/a-z-of-thinkers/silvia-federici/">Silvia
Federici’s</a> 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>I point out the striking parallels between this
historical moment and the counter-revolutions
represented by fascism, in the 20th century, and the <a
href="https://winteroak.org.uk/the-great-reset/">Great
Reset</a>, in the 21st.</p>
<p><em><a
href="https://winteroak.org.uk/2020/10/05/klaus-schwab-and-his-great-fascist-reset/">Klaus
Schwab and His Great Fascist Reset</a></em>,
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.</p>
<p>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’.”</p>
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<p><em><a
href="https://winteroak.org.uk/2020/12/14/dismantling-tyranny/">Dismantling
tyranny</a></em> (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.</p>
<p>“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”.</p>
<p>Impact capitalism is a phenomenon which forms a central
part of the New Normal agenda, and which is little
understood. Researcher <a
href="https://wrenchinthegears.com/">Alison McDowell</a> has
been producing some crucial information and analysis on
this issue and in <em><a
href="https://winteroak.org.uk/2021/03/16/impactor-alert/">Impactor
Alert! </a></em>(March 16, 2021) I try to convey the
essence of what she has been showing us.</p>
<p><em><a
href="https://winteroak.org.uk/2021/05/05/the-acorn-65/">Ten
things we have learned during the Covid coup</a></em> is
an <em>Acorn</em> piece, published on May 5, 2021. It
sums up, in a few words, much of what I have been
writing about in recent years.</p>
<p>Finally, there is <em><a
href="https://network23.org/paulcudenec/2021/06/10/fascism-three-brief-insights/">Fascism:
three brief insights </a></em>(June 10, 2021), which
seems to me to nicely complete this particular loop in
an ongoing spiral of reflection.</p>
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<p>Download <em>Fascism Rebranded: Exposing the Great
Reset </em>for free <a
href="https://winteroakpress.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/fascism-rebranded2021.pdf">here</a>.</p>
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