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https://mises.org/wire/great-reset-part-iv-stakeholder-capitalism-vs-neoliberalism

>Stakeholders consist of “customers, suppliers, employees, and local communities” in addition to shareholders. But for Klaus Schwab and the WEF, the framework of stakeholder capitalism must be globalized. A stakeholder is anyone or any group that stands to benefit or lose from any corporate behavior—other than competitors, we may presume. Since the primary pretext for the Great Reset is global climate change, anyone in the world can be considered a stakeholder in the corporate governance of any major corporation. And federal partnerships with corporations that do not “serve” their stakeholders, like the Keystone Pipeline project, for example, must be abandoned. Racial “equity,” the promotion of transgender agendas, and other such identity policies and politics, will also be injected into corporate sharing schemes.

>If anything, stakeholder capitalism represents a consumptive worm set to burrow into and hollow out corporations from within, to the degree that the ideology and practice find hosts in corporate bodies. It represents a means of socialist wealth liquidation from within capitalist organizations themselves, using any number of criteria for redistribution of benefits and “externalities.”

>But don’t take my word for it. Take one David Campbell, a British socialist (although non-Marxist) and author of The Failure of Marxism (1996). After declaring that Marxism had failed, Campbell began advocating stakeholder capitalism as a means to the same ends. His argument with the British orthodox Marxist Paddy Ireland represents an internecine squabble over the best means of achieving socialism, while also providing a looking glass into the minds of socialists determined to try other, presumably nonviolent tacks.

Of course, a common rebuke of analyses like these and warnings about the possible rise of Marxism or Marxist-like systems in this country reminiscent of what happened in the USSR or the CCP, is that these are simply people having thoughts implanted in their head by “the bigoted GOP and their corporate masters, being brainwashed to vote against their own best self-interests”. This is, ironically, itself an argument stemming from a worldview parallel to what happened/happens in the USSR, and in the CCP with the Chinese Cultural Revolution and struggle sessions. In the USSR, for instance, the kulaks (semi-wealthy/middle-class land-owners) were the ones who were reputedly the cause of the suffering of the peasants and whom vilification of and caricatures of were justified in the news and society at large. In the modern West, an analogous process is going on, where anyone who objects to woke bullshit is seen as having a lower moral standing, being a buffoon, inferior mentally and emotionally, “brainwashed by alt-right misinformation,” and the like. Or as Hillary infamously put them, “Deplorables.”