Michael Rectenwald - The Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty: Unraveling the Global Agenda

The Great Reset

and the

Struggle for Liberty

Unraveling the Global Agenda

Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D.

Copyright Michael Rectenwald, 2023

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Acknowledgments

T his book owes a great deal to friends and supporters who have helped to guide its contents, provide vital research, and who encouraged me to bring it to completion.

Perhaps unbeknownst to them, my friends and followers on Facebook and Twitter often provided sparks of insight, which helped to stimulate me as I wrote. You are too many to be named, but I thank you all. You know who you are.

For generous and timely readings of this books chapters, I owe a great debt of gratitude to Vinay Kolhatkar, the brilliant publisher of the Savvy Street website. Vinay read early and late drafts of most of this books chapters and offered timely and incisive comments and suggestions, most of which I adopted. Thank you, Vinay!

I owe a great debt of gratitude to John Adam Klyczek, the Taoist Professor, author of School World Order , and a veritable encyclopedia regarding the globalist organizations treated in Chapters 8 and 9 of this book (and a lot more). John provided essential research and sketches of the histories of these globalist groups and their Malthusian and neo-Malthusian beliefs. Thank you, John!

Finally, I owe the greatest debt of gratitude to my long-time confidante and sidekick, and editorial and research assistant, Lori R. Price. Loris tireless and ongoing readings of all parts of this manuscript in every phase of its production have served not only to improve my writing but also to stimulate it. Lori helped me to draft material, provided essential research, and lent editorial assistance at every stage of this books writing. I cannot say enough about Loris unflagging support, continual guidance, and steadfast belief that this book would come to fruition. I should also add that Loris brilliant and important website, CLG News (legitgov.org), provided me with up-to-date material that was vital to this book. Thank you so much, Lori!

Without these people, this book would not exist. But any flaws that remain are, of course, my own.

Foreword

W ith all the horrors that are unfolding in the world today, its difficult to avoid the feeling that dark forces are arrayed against those of us who want to live their lives in peace. Michael Rectenwalds excellent and vitally important book, The Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty: Unraveling the Global Agenda, shows better than any other book I know that we are right to feel this way. Rectenwald puts it all together. He shows us who is plotting against us, what they have in mind for us, andmost importantlywhat we can do to stop them.

He is superbly qualified to write this book. As his website notes, he is the author of eleven books, including Thought Criminal (Dec. 2020); Beyond Woke (May 2020); Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom (Sept. 2019); Springtime for Snowflakes: Social Justice and Its Postmodern Parentage (an academics memoir, 2018); Nineteenth-Century British Secularism: Science, Religion and Literature (2016); Academic Writing, Real World Topics (2015, Concise Edition 2016); Global Secularisms in a Post-Secular Age (2015); Breach (Collected Poems, 2013); The Thief and Other Stories (2013); and The Eros of the Baby-Boom Eras (1991).

Michael was a Professor of Liberal Studies and Global Liberal Studies at NYU from 2008 to 2019. He also taught at Duke University, North Carolina Central University, Carnegie Mellon University, and Case Western Reserve University. His scholarly and academic essays have appeared in The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Academic Questions, Endeavour, The British Journal for the History of Science, College Composition and Communication, International Philosophical Quarterly, the De Gruyter anthologies Organized Secularism in the United States and Global Secularisms in a Post-Secular Age , and the Cambridge University Press anthology George Eliot in Context , among others. He holds a Ph.D. in Literary and Cultural Studies from Carnegie Mellon University, a Master's in English Literature from Case Western Reserve University, and a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Pittsburgh. He is a champion of liberty and opposes all forms of totalitarianism and political authoritarianism, including socialism-communism, social justice, fascism, political correctness, and woke ideology.

When you first see the title of this book, one question will spring to your mind: What is the Great Reset? Quite simply, it is a plan for the restructuring of society concocted by Klaus Schwab in connection with a vast assemblage of players. It is promoted through his World Economic Forum and its many programs for training the leaders of tomorrow. Rectenwald minces no words in telling us what these master planners of evil have in store for us:

The Great Reset means, at the very least, reduced standards of living and carbon use for the vast majority. But Schwab and the WEF also define the Great Reset in terms of the convergence of economic, monetary, technological, medical, genomic, environmental, military, and governance systems. The Great Reset involves vast transformations in each of these domains, changes which, according to Schwab, will not only alter our world but also lead us to question what it means to be human. In terms of economics and monetary policy, the Great Reset amounts to a great consolidation of wealth, on the one hand, and the planned issuance of universal basic income (UBI) on the other. Its goals include a shift to a central bank digital currency (CBDC), including a consolidated centralization of banking and bank accounts, the possibility of immediate real-time taxation, negative interest rates, and centralized surveillance and control over spending, debt, and savings. The Great Reset consolidates capital flows from central banks and investment firms into the hands of preferred producers through stakeholder capitalism. This would amount to a virtual oligopoly on top with actually existing socialism for the majority below. How else are we to explain the promise, youll own nothing, and youll be happy?

Now for something that will amaze you. How did the WEF propose to foist their diabolical scheme on us? For one thing, they said that a pandemic would give them a good chance to impose their controls on people, who would then get used to following orders and living at a reduced level. (See Chapter 1.)

It seems Schwab and his cohorts divide people into three categories: an elite group at the top, the masses who will exist at a low standard of living, made necessary by the efforts to green and control the economy, and an intermediate group with some limited social mobility. Those who dont go along with the plan will be destroyed:

Whether we understand the stakeholder capitalism of the Great Reset as capitalism with Chinese characteristics, as neo-feudalism, as corporate socialism or as economic fascismthe results are the same. The Great Reset amounts to a state-corporate-woke-cartel hybrid administering the economy through the recommendations and decisions of technocrats like those at the WEF, the UN, the World Bank, and, by extension, the World Health Organizationas well as by top corporate decision-makers like BlackRocks Larry Fink... The elite will appeal to the downtrodden and weaponize them with egalitarian rhetoric and the distribution of social welfare, while castigating and vilifying non-compliant professionals, entrepreneurs, and business owners. Whatever rhetoric or ideology is propagated by the adherents of the Great Reset, power and control is vested in a consortium of elites, who effectively run the economy as its primary beneficiaries. This is just the kind of tiered social structure that characterized Communist nations. The elite class was the party faithful, and the masses, at times, starved without UBI. We should be very wary, indeed.Next page