Thread by @WinterOakPress

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We badly need a new vocabulary to describe what is going on in the world today.

Under cover of Covid-19, a long-prepared and widely-orchestrated attempt is being made to enslave humankind in a hi-tech global police state.

winteroak.org.uk/2020/11/13/the…

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But what do we call these people and their odious system?

Everybody seems to use a different term and bickering over which one is most appropriate distracts attention from the essential question of how we can get together and bring them down.

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Many of us have been content to use the word "capitalism" to describe the combination of wealth and power behind this clique.

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This term now seems increasingly inadequate, partly because not all of those who we would identify as capitalists are complicit in this coup, but mainly because some supporters of the "new normal" seem to be framing it as kind of post-capitalism.

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A dictionary definition of capitalism: "An economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange, characterized by the freedom of capitalists to operate or manage their property for profit in competitive conditions".

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As far as the first part of that sentence goes, we are entering deeper into capitalism, with private ownership and exploitation of everything and everyone a key aim of the Great Reset.

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But the final reference to "competitive conditions" sounds less relevant when we are looking at a total monopoly imposed by global governance.

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So what do we call the people behind the Covid Coup, the people laying claim to ownership of our lives, our land and our future, if we don't call them "capitalists"?

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There are some out there who think these dictators are "communists", because of the strong element of state control involved.

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This impression is reinforced by the deliberate use of "redwashing" and "wokewashing", as well as the usual corporate greenwashing, to disguise the true nature of what it happening and thus sell it to a part of the population.

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But are we really talking about what the same dictionary defines as "a classless society in which private ownership has been abolished and the means of production and subsistence belong to the community"?

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No. Obviously not. We are not looking at a classless society at all, but a society divided between a tiny elite class of absolute rulers and a vast lower class of exploited serfs.

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The means of production and subsistence will not even theoretically belong to us all, even via the intermediary of a state which is supposed to incarnate the interests of the community. They will remain firmly in private hands.

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What we are seeing is a lot closer to the fascist model of pretending to be "socialist" in order to use the power and the resources of the state to prop up private industry.

winteroak.org.uk/2020/07/26/fas…

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But there are some problems in using the term "fascism", as many people associate fascism and Nazism primarily with the specifically nationalist and racialist narrative of its original proponents, which does not apply to the new global version.

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On the other hand, the rival term "globalist" is problematic because it is too vague. We need to be clear that we are not just talking about people with an internationalist approach or affiliations, but about a class of billionaires who already own much of the world.

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The term "technocrat" is pretty accurate, when you look at the history of that movement, but is often understood as meaning simply rule by experts, with the implication of some kind of political neturality.

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The problem is that we have never been in this situation before, in which a conspiracy of the wealthiest people in the planet are so overtly using the lies and police-state tactics previously associated with authoritarian communist and fascist regimes.

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And we have never before been in a situation where this socipathic ultra-rich elite seems prepared to ditch the vehicle that brought them this far – capitalism – and switch into a dictatorship built on raw power.

winteroak.org.uk/2020/05/21/mon…

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We also have the added element of the twisted transhumanist ideology which seems to lurk behind these sinister neworks.

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So what name can we agree to give to these powerful enemies of humanity, of freedom, of community, of nature, of friendship, of love, of everything that makes life worth living?

And what name will we give to ourselves as we come together to defeat them?