This essay was reblogged from two years ago. Since then, President Biden has provoked a conflict that’s provided an opportunity for unprecedented big tech censorship against anti-imperialists, likely continued the TPP’s anti-worker patterns in the form of the
I like going back to so called first principles. In this particular instance, the uneven and combined development of capitalism as it expanded within countries, regions and finally across the globe, creating different (over determined) crises in different places —crises which no individual nation state could contain or preempt, let alone resolve. Thus, from the outset, it was literally on the cards that global capitalism would eventually require a single global state to hold the whole show together. Or, rather, it’s unmanageability would create a perception among the major capitalist powers that a one-world government was their last best hope of salvaging capitalism to their exclusive advantage. This, I believe, is the conceptual underpinning of the great reset. Simplistic, perforce, but it informs my understanding of the Davos Crowd.
I like going back to so called first principles. In this particular instance, the uneven and combined development of capitalism as it expanded within countries, regions and finally across the globe, creating different (over determined) crises in different places —crises which no individual nation state could contain or preempt, let alone resolve. Thus, from the outset, it was literally on the cards that global capitalism would eventually require a single global state to hold the whole show together. Or, rather, it’s unmanageability would create a perception among the major capitalist powers that a one-world government was their last best hope of salvaging capitalism to their exclusive advantage. This, I believe, is the conceptual underpinning of the great reset. Simplistic, perforce, but it informs my understanding of the Davos Crowd.