THAT described as either the Great Reset or Fourth Industrial Revolution has led to a curious ideological division among those who are seeking to challenge it. Not between those of us on the ground, necessarily, but certainly in the way one perceives the ultimate political character of its chief architects. On the one side are those who insist that this increasingly authoritarian process is leading us towards global ‘communism,’ whilst on the other there is a growing tendency to cast our prospective overlords as a gang of sneering ‘fascists’.
I have already explained why these conflicting impressions are so unhelpful, not least as a result of perpetuating the negative ideas that so irreparably scarred the previous century, but what also needs to be taken into consideration is that both ideologies have their roots in the same materialistic soil. If the Great Reset is ‘communist,’ then one must not ignore the fact that communism itself is a form of state-capitalism. Similarly, ‘fascism’ – at least as it developed under the auspices of Hitler, Mussolini and Franco – was merely capitalism in a more openly repressive form.
It matters very little, therefore, whether one presents the current phenomenon as ‘communist’ or ‘fascist’ when it fundamentally amounts to the same old financial skulduggery that retains the ability to reconfigure itself more times than a restless chameleon. The Great Reset is simply the latest application of the age-old strategy of adapt and survive. If we are to fight back, then we must do the same.
