Many large U.S. corporations, especially high-tech ones, are becoming directly involved in more aspects of public life in order to influence policy to their own benefit, while at the same time converting Americans to certain political views and behaviors that increasingly resemble those of the government. This is very similar to the totalitarian socialist model of “capitalism with Chinese characteristics.
Here is a translation of an excerpt from the article.
Experts say that corporate presidents are pushing their political views on a growing number of public issues, which puts the United States on a dangerous trajectory.
In a famous recent example, the chief executives of some of America’s biggest companies recently issued statements criticizing an amendment to Georgia’s voting law that would have extended requirements for voter identification to absentee ballots, among other things.
Major League Baseball officials even moved the All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver in protest of the voter ID requirement.
The rhetoric from executives appears to be coming from the left. Colorado also has a voter ID requirement and fewer days of early voting than Georgia. About half of the states in Major League Baseball already have voter ID laws, and some are preparing to tighten their rules in a similar way to Georgia. To oppose one of these states so strongly and to present a specific purpose in a synchronized manner seems at odds with the company’s usual lobbying.
However, it is appropriate to the current trend of corporations to place themselves directly in more aspects of public life, not only to influence policy to their own benefit, but also to cause Americans to gravitate toward certain political views and behaviors.
Michael Rectenwald, a retired professor of liberal arts at New York University, says these companies are increasingly behaving like government departments. Rectenwald is an expert on socialist ideology and corporations.
This trend has led to a virtual fusion of government with some corporate groups based on a common ideology. Reitenwald calls it “corporate socialism” or “capitalism with Chinese characteristics” because it is so similar to the totalitarian model of the Chinese Communist Party.
“We see a convergence of political and economic goals, and a convergence of state and corporate functions. Corporations are now acting as state institutions that carry out the aspirations of a one-party state,” he told via email.
“This is because under the corporate socialist agenda, these companies realize that to be or remain favored partners in an economy where the state chooses winners and losers, they had better align themselves with the goals of the state, which are now being managed by the one-party system.”
The result, writes Rettenwald in a March 11 article, is “two types of economies, with possible monopolies at the top of the state” and the rest reduced to “a reinforced and supposedly comfortable serfdom.
This trend, he argues, is reflected in the so-called “awakening” of government and business as their common guiding ideology, an ideology popular among the progressive left, based on a quasi-Marxist “critical theory. This ideology reinterprets history as the struggle of different ethnic groups labeled by them as either the oppressors or the oppressed.
“The Awakening is not a complaint or an imagined complaint against those who suffer, but a correction. The awakening is directed at the majority, those who are the supposed beneficiaries of injustice.”
“This is done by making the majority understand that they have benefited from ‘privilege’ and favor, i.e., on the basis of skin color (whiteness), gender (patriarchy), sexual orientation (heterosexuality), place of birth (colonialism, imperialism and first worldism), gender identity (male and female gender privilege) and natural domination (speciesism), which are some of the main culprits. The list could go on and on, and it seems to change daily. Most of these must be corrected. The great masses must understand that on the basis of treating others unfairly, they have received all the benefits they have enjoyed so far.”
This ideology, he says, is well suited to the two-category system of corporate socialism because it instills “shame, guilt, regret, unworthiness” in most of the West, thus making them “expect less.
In an ‘awakened’ ideology, he writes, “people expect and are more likely to give up personal property and rights because one’s property and rights come at the expense of others.”
He noted that the “draconian blockade measures” against the pandemic caused by the CCP virus “are exactly what the corporate socialists …… want to do,” such as destroy small businesses and increase the revenues of corporate giants such as Amazon, Apple and Facebook.
Another way to lower expectations, according to Rettenwald, is by hijacking environmental policies.
While there are pressing ecological problems, such as water pollution and the increasing amount of toxic waste from plastics, electronics and other modern technologies, these problems are usually second to climate change.
If the climate predictions of the mainstream community come true, the world will face problems such as more extreme weather and coastal flooding in the coming decades. The establishment’s policy is to ask Americans and Europeans to tighten their seat belts.
In their book COVID-19: The Great Reset, Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF), and his colleague Thierry Malleret write, “If, after the plague, we decide to live like we used to (drive the same cars, fly to the the same destinations, eat the same things, heat our houses the same way, etc.). The COVID-19 crisis would be worthless as far as climate policy is concerned.”
The book writes: “With an economic emergency response to the plague in place, opportunities can be seized to make systemic changes and policy choices that will set the economy on a new path to a fairer, greener future.” This has been called the “Great Reconfiguration.”
More dramatic climate projections have existed for decades, but have proven to be inaccurate. The current situation suggests that avoiding the estimated problems will require abandoning the traditional burning of coal, oil and natural gas to travel and produce energy. This must be done not only in the United States and Europe, but also in China (the world’s largest polluter), India, and other populous and developing countries. But they refuse to do so because it would greatly impede their economic development and plunge vast numbers of people back into poverty.
Meanwhile, progressives are increasingly using the issue as a means to “wake up” to the agenda, linking climate measures to policies such as minimum wages and expanded employee benefits, which further increase barriers to competition and favor monopolies.
The World Economic Forum has taken the initiative to create an Environmental, Social and Governance Index (ESG) to direct funds to companies that adopt the “Big Reorganization” plan.
Rettenwald writes, “Although the index is currently only used as a recommendation, there are indications that banks, asset managers and other corporate institutions may use these scores as a way to push non-compliant, non-‘awake’ participants out of the market.”
The most obvious nested cogs in the corporate socialist machine, he believes, are the big tech companies. “Large tech companies will benefit directly from the “Big Reorganization. These monopolies eliminate competing platforms and viewpoints as part of their overall monopoly.”
“Mainstream and social media censor all views contrary to what they are pushing, such as climate change, COVID, vaccines, systemic racism, transgenderism, and the “Big Reconfiguration. In short, Big Tech is the vanguard of corporate socialism and a vehicle for the dissemination of ideology.”
While Schwab and Malillette portray the “Great Reconfiguration” as a natural effect of a plague pandemic, they also acknowledge that the “Great Reconfiguration” will depend on governments, corporations and radicals taking advantage of the situation to make it happen.
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