Globalism & the Great Reset

“The Great Reset came into general circulation over a decade ago, with the publication of a 2010 book, “The Great Reset,” by American urban studies scholar Richard Florida, written in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.”
– Dr. Michael Rectenwald, Hillsdale College, November 7, 2021

The December 2021 issue of Hillsdale College’s Imprimis featured the on-campus speech of Dr. Michael Rectenwald that answered this question, “What is the Great Reset?” Assuring the audience that the Great Reset is real, he began his speech with this:

“Last year [2020] Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF) – a famous organization made up of the world‟s political, economic, and cultural elites that meets annually in Davos, Switzerland – and Thierry Malleret, co-founder and main author of the Monthly Barometer, published a book called COVID-19: The Great Reset. In the book, they define the Great Reset as a means of addressing the „weaknesses of capitalism‟ that were purportedly exposed by the COVID pandemic.”

He, also, cited Richard Florida‟s 2010 book entitled The Great Reset, which deemed the 2008 economic crash as the latest in a series of Great Resets, such as the Long Depression of the 1870s and the Great Depression of the 1930s. Florida defined both as periods of “paradigm-shifting systemic innovations,” i.e., frameworks for diluting the sovereignty of nations.

During the 2014 WEF annual meeting, Schwab said, “What we want to do in Davos this year … is to push the reset button.”

“In May 2018, the WEF collaborated with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security to conduct ‘CLADE X, a simulation of a world pandemic response’ … that without effective vaccines “experts tell us that we could eventually see 30 to 40 million deaths in the U.S. and more than 90 million around the world – twelve percent of the global population.”

In October 2019, the WEF … simulated another exercise – “Event 201 – as an international response to the outbreak of a novel coronavirus…. That scenario included the idea of asymptomatic spread.” Those exercises demonstrated how pandemics would affect” responses by governments, health agencies, the media, tech companies and elements of the public.”

Dr. Rectenwald continued, “The Great Reset aims to usher in a bewildering economic amalgam – Schwab’s stakeholder capitalism – which I have called ‘corporate socialism’ and Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has called ‘communist capitalism.'”

Read more of the September 2023 newsletter here.