The World Economic Forum is subtly explaining how it's Neo-Communist in a new agenda article claiming everyone wants to meet Agenda 2030 but more "civic participation" is needed to accomplish it.
Executive summary suggests Agenda 2030 is supported unanimously (can we stop pretending it's a conspiracy theory yet?), that attacks on what it calls "civil society" and "civic freedoms" are a roadblock, and that freedom means freedom from fear and want. 🚩🚩🚩
In the first paragraph, we get a look behind the curtain. Whatever they mean by "civil society" and "civic freedoms" has everything to do with "economic inequality, gender imbalances, corruption, and environmental degradation." 🚩🚩🚩
They're Neo-Communists.
What the WEF means by "civil society" and "civic freedoms" isn't what you think it means. It means equity, inclusion, and sustainability to provide the "freedoms" under that discipline, just like Mao (pics 2&3). "Civil society" means don't argue, don't protest, do go along.
We're at the halfway point in Agenda 2030 (can we please stop calling it a conspiracy theory yet?), so they're getting nervous. Things aren't going smoothly. They remind us that it's the largest bid for Communism ever attempted. It's a global revolution. It must fail.
They never question for a second if people want or even should want the world they market in their corrupted language: "peaceful," "just," "equal," and "sustainable" societies. It all sounds good in the abstract, but in the concrete it's tyranny and nonsense, like always.
The goal of the summit is to "propose strategies to accelerate the implementation of Agenda 2030" (can we stop calling it a conspiracy theory yet?!).
See, it's all been delayed by the crisis shocks they've rocked the world with specifically to implement it (pic 2). Bastards.
See, we have consensus! So it's obviously good. Thesis, antithesis, consensus. Unity under a new global standard. Democracy with centralism. Freedom under discipline. Everything is falling apart, but we are unified under the new glorious program. That's their message. It's Mao.
"people-centered commitments" 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
Remember when you thought it was about "civil society"? Well, it's really under the decision-making of "civil society organizations" which "forge consensus" and increase their "partnerships." It's networked Communist front organizations.
Apparently fundamental civic rights (?? individual rights? No.) are under attack! Oh no! But when we look more closely, they seem to mix legitimate concerns (China) with nonsense under twisted definitions. Leftist activism meeting any resistance seems to count.
See? Getting in their way, even when they break the law, is what it means to "restrict civic freedoms." Whether you prefer Mao or Marcuse (Repressive Tolerance), this is the Neo-Communist distortion that lets them bias the playing field to their unfair advantage.
This is probably my favorite part of this. They're still saying "build back better" because of Covid-19. Hilarious. Agenda 2030 is the point of build back better, though, as we can see. (Actually, 2050, but I digress...)
(gotta take an intermission for a meeting, BBL).
UN boss Antonio Guterres bemoans the loss of "civil society" and violations of "human rights" as the problem and urges centering them in Agenda 2030 initiatives. Look what he means by that, though: Woke and Sustainability nonsense. They always redefine everything and hide it.
Guterres insists "rising hate speech" is a violation of human rights. So are "social polarization" and "environmental degradation," as they define them. "Unequal access" is another, with Neo-Communism as the obvious "solution."
The degradation of "civic space" is cited as a key problem, but what does it mean? It means activists for the Agenda get their way and everything else is censored and excluded. "Civic space" is a political economy that advances the Agenda.
Development "must be about freedom from fear and freedom from want," so Communism, which will "ensure that the benefits are evenly spread." Source: 2013 opinion piece in the Guardian calling for the end of our current system, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. 🚩🚩
So now we see the big push coming this year, which is obviously Neo-Communism and must be humiliated by September so we can stop Agenda 2030 at its midpoint. They're obviously nervous.
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Like it or not, this is correct. It's not a matter of being tolerant or not. Islam, or at least Islamism if there's any daylight between them, is fundamentally a militant ideology. Free societies cannot tolerate militant ideologies except in small fringes.
Karl Popper laid out the so-called Paradox of Tolerance in 1945 in his not-so-great book The Open Society and Its Enemies, and free societies will live or die based on the practical solution they come up with to this paradox. This paradox is the rub of liberty and freedom.
The Paradox of Tolerance is simply enough stated: must a tolerant society tolerate intolerance that will eventually end its tolerance?
The answer is that there has to be a line drawn somewhere, and the problem is that it's hard to draw a clear line anywhere.
No, Fascism is a progressive ideology, which is inherently idealist (Hitler makes this argument himself about National Socialism in MK vol 2 ch 2). Conservatism is a realist ideology. They're not remotely the same, though both claim to favor the nation and tradition.
Hitler, as indicated: "This is why it is necessary to establish a faith in an idealistic Reich to battle against the reckoning imposed by the present materialistic Republic."
This is not a conservative statement, and it's an anti-realist statement, like Marxism would make.
I've been spending a lot of time trying to figure out what the relationship between Fascism and conservatism is, and it's this: Fascism is what you get when a conservative abandons realism for romanticism and idealism, which are progressive and anti-realist.
Yesterday, I read the very last chapter of Mein Kampf, Volume 2, Chapter 15: "Self-defense as a Right." It's not a particularly enlightening or powerful chapter, but it made me think of Europe today. It makes me think Europe is being forced with immigration back to that place. 🧵
"The enemy's reaction is your real action" is a backbone of Leftist activism, and that sentiment was heavy on me while I read the very last chapter of Mein Kampf. Why? Because the architects of the immigration crisis in Europe would have been familiar with Hitler's motivations.
In fact, the architects of the immigration crisis in Europe would have been fully aware of not just what Hitler was talking about but the effect his arguments had in Germany in the 1920s through 1940s. "Self-defense as a right" is a theme we're hearing everywhere from Reaction.
Authoritarianism is frequently (but not always) explained and measured using a three-factor scale that measures "conventionalism," "authoritarian aggression," and "authoritarian submission." These are worth knowing about, particularly in this day and age. 🧵
Conventionalism is the first of the three typically recognized authoritarian traits. What it refers to is a tendency to follow conventions and to expect (or force) other people to follow the same conventions. These conventions can be defined in a wide variety of ways.
Often, and I think wrongly (following Altemeyer, mostly), the conventions are usually defined in terms of adhering (strictly) to traditional norms and expectations, but this misses a key, crucial generalization that any ideological community can define any conventions it wants.
A huge lure that hooks people into the Woke Right is what we might call "the hope you're not allowed to have." Someone can sell a hope that force or authoritarianism or fascism can stop the apparently unstoppable march of Marxism and radicalize by saying it's unfairly withheld.
Frankly, all totalitarian and authoritarian ideologies use this mechanism. Marcuse talked about it with "liberating tolerance," for example, and the "utopian possibility" of a liberated socialist state. The mechanism (sales pitch) is pretty devious and radicalizes people hard.
In short, the ideologue pitches the idea of a vastly better society freed up from the repressions of the current age but places it just out of reach, thus seeming to damn its targets to living in unnecessary misery if only we were allowed to pursue liberation, but we're not.
Something everyone needs to understand about identity politics and "collective identities" (aka, "collective justice," aka "social justice") is that they are intrinsically scams and will intrinsically end up led by people who screw over the people "of identity" who support them.
Identity politics is not what happened in the Civil Rights Movement. What happened in the Civil Rights Movement was a bid by groups to not have to be treated as groups. The slogan black men carried on signs in Memphis was "I am a man."
The term and concept of identity politics as we understand it now was coined in the late 1970s in the Black Feminist Marxist group called the Combahee River Collective, which laid out the neo-Maoist program of intersectionality from Woke (Left) Identity Marxist perspectives.