Davos 2012: From Capitalism to Fascism

Robert Wenzel  |  Economic Policy Journal via LewRockwell.com 23,217 views
January 24, 2012

This is very serious. The elitist power grab is going right at the heart of capitalism. Of course, they have always been for central control, with them in control, but now they are calling out capitalism, directly, as an inferior product.

On Friday, I attacked Larry Summers for blaming the current crisis on capitalism. I thought he was a lone wolf attempting to see how far the anti-capitalist agenda could be pushed. I was wrong.

It appears Summers simply fired the first shot in a new aggressive move by elitists to discredit capitalism outright. The elitists are gathering in Davos, Switzerland right now for the 2012 World Economic Forum.

Check out this horrifying report from AFP on the Summit (my emphasis):

Economic and political elites meeting this week at the Swiss resort of Davos will be asked to urgently find ways to reform a capitalist system that has been described as “outdated and crumbling.”

“We have a general morality gap, we are over-leveraged, we have neglected to invest in the future, we have undermined social coherence, and we are in danger of completely losing the confidence of future generations,” said Klaus Schwab, host and founder of the annual World Economic Forum.

“Solving problems in the context of outdated and crumbling models will only dig us deeper into the hole.

“We are in an era of profound change that urgently requires new ways of thinking instead of more business-as-usual,” the 73-year-old said, adding that “capitalism in its current form, has no place in the world around us.”

Some 1,600 economic and political leaders, including 40 heads of states and governments, will be asked to come up with new ideas as they converge at eastern Switzerland’s chic ski station for the 42nd edition of the five-day World Economic Forum which opens Wednesday.

From a press release on the Davos forum:

The Davos Open Forum celebrates its 10th anniversary with a programme including a top-level debate on the future of capitalism.

As I pointed out in my comment on Summers, capitalism has nothing to do with the current crisis. It is the interventionist measures (especially central banking) that have caused the current crisis. These measure have distorted capitalism and yet these elitist schemers, who are largely to blame for the crisis, have the chutzpah to blame the crisis on capitalism and to call for more interventions that will benefit no one but the elitist themselves.

Folks, it looks like they are going for the BIG GRAB. Not good. Not good at all.

Among those expected to be in Davos are:

  • Christine Lagarde, IMF Managing Director
  • Kumi Naidoo, Greenpeace Executive Director
  • Robert Zoellick, World Bank President
  • Bill Gates
  • David Cameron, UK Prime Minister
  • John McCain, U.S. Senator (R-AZ)
  • Nouriel Roubini, Professor at Stern School, NYU, Chairman of Roubini Global Economics
  • Ehud Barak, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence of Israel
  • Gordon Brown, UK Prime Minister (2007-2010)
  • Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the European Central Bank (2003-2011)
  • Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer, Facebook
  • Sean Parker – Napster, Plaxo, Facebook, Causes, Spotify & Airtime
  • Peter Voser, Chief Executive Officer, Royal Dutch Shell
  • Ed Miliband, Leader, Labour Party, United Kingdom
  • Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer ,Unilever
  • Vikram Pandit, Chief Executive Officer Citi
  • Yasuchika Hasegawa, President and Chief Executive Officer, Takeda Pharmaceutical
  • Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Chairman of the Board, Nestlé, Switzerland
  • Nabil Elaraby, Secretary General of the League of Arab States
  • Bill Gross, Founder of Technology Incubator Idealab
  • Michael Dell
  • Xavier Sala-i-Martin, Professor of Economics at Columbia University.
  • Tony Blair Office
  • Congressman Darrell Issa
  • Raila Amolo Odinga, Prime Minister of the Republic of Kenya.
  • Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission, “responsible for the Digital Agenda for Europe”.
  • Pete Cashmore, CEO and Founder of Mashable.com.
  • Joseph E. Stiglitz
  • Paul Allen
  • Goodluck Jonathan, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
  • Michael Porter, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, Harvard Business School. Director, Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness.
  • Shadi Hamid, Director of Research at the Brookings Doha Center & Fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.
  • Bruno Ferrari, Secretario de Economía de México
  • Mabel van Oranje, CEO of @TheElders, Co-chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations

And apologist reporters for the elitists:

  • Tina Brown, editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast and Newsweek.
  • Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times Columnist & CNBC Squawk Box
  • Maria Bartiromo, Anchor CNBC Closing Bell
  • Alan Murray, Wall Street Journal Deputy Managing Editor and Executive Editor Online
  • Thomas L. Friedman, NY Times columnist
  • Felix Salmon, Reuters
  • Henry Blodget, Business Insider

Here are the Strategic Partners of the Forum:

  • ABB
  • Abraaj Capital
  • Accel Partners
  • Accenture
  • Adecco Group
  • Adobe Systems Incorporated
  • Aetna
  • Agility
  • Alcatel-Lucent
  • Alcoa
  • Apax Partners
  • ArcelorMittal
  • AUDI AG
  • Bahrain Economic Development Board
  • Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company
  • Bain & Company
  • Bank of America
  • Barclays
  • Basic Element
  • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  • Bombardier
  • Booz & Company
  • BP Plc
  • BT
  • Burda Media
  • CA Technologies
  • Chevron
  • Cisco
  • Citi
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, LLC
  • Clifford Chance
  • Credit Suisse
  • Deloitte
  • Deutsche Bank
  • Deutsche Post DHL
  • Dogus Group
  • DuPont
  • Ernst & Young
  • Eskom Holdings SOC Limited
  • Fluor Corporation
  • GDF SUEZ
  • GE
  • Goldman Sachs
  • Google
  • Hanwha Group
  • HCL Technologies Ltd
  • Heidrick & Struggles
  • Hewlett-Packard Company
  • HSBC
  • Huawei Technologies
  • IHS
  • Infosys
  • Intel Corporation
  • JPMorgan Chase & Co.
  • KPMG International
  • Kudelski Group
  • Lenovo
  • LUKOIL
  • Mahindra Satyam
  • ManpowerGroup
  • Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMCo)
  • McKinsey & Company
  • Merck
  • METRO GROUP
  • Microsoft Corporation
  • Mitsubishi Corporation
  • Morgan Stanley
  • National Bank of Kuwait
  • Nestlé
  • Nike Inc.
  • Nomura Holdings
  • Novartis
  • NYSE Euronext
  • Omnicom Group
  • PepsiCo
  • Prudential
  • Publicis Groupe
  • PwC
  • Qualcomm
  • Reliance Industries
  • Renault-Nissan Alliance
  • Roland Berger Strategy Consultants
  • Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC)
  • Sberbank
  • Siemens
  • SK Group
  • Standard Chartered
  • Swiss International Air Lines
  • Swiss Re
  • System Capital Management
  • Takeda Pharmaceutical
  • Tata Consultancy Services
  • The Boston Consulting Group
  • The Coca-Cola Company
  • The Dow Chemical Company
  • The NASDAQ OMX Group
  • The Olayan Group
  • Thomson Reuters
  • Troika Dialog
  • UBS
  • Unilever
  • VimpelCom
  • Visa Inc.
  • Vision 3
  • Volkswagen AG
  • VTB Bank
  • Wipro
  • WPP
  • Zurich Financial Services

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15 comments

  1. Quiklinx for the Week of 1/23 (See Quiklinx Page above for previous) « says:
    January 24, 2012 at 20:13

    […] Davos 2012: From Capitalism to Fascism – by Robert Wenzel, WarIsCrime.com –  “Economic and political elites meeting this week at the Swiss resort of Davos will be asked to urgently find ways to reform a capitalist system that has been described as ‘outdated and crumbling.’  “(author’s emphasis) Advertisement GA_googleAddAttr(“AdOpt”, “1”); GA_googleAddAttr(“Origin”, “other”); GA_googleAddAttr(“LangId”, “1”); GA_googleAddAttr(“Autotag”, “politics”); GA_googleFillSlot(“wpcom_sharethrough”); Like this:LikeBe the first to like this post. This entry was written by Bruce, posted on January 23, 2012 at 11:24 am, filed under Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL. « Quiklinx for the Week of 1/16 (See Quiklinx Page above for previous) […]

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  3. Davos 2012: De la capitalism la fascism, de la Vechea Ordine Mondială la Noua Ordine Mondială | Mucenicul's Blog says:
    January 25, 2012 at 11:57

    […] Elitelor economice şi politice, care se întâlnesc în această săptămână în staţiunea elveţiană Davos( mai precis azi-n.m), li se va cere să găsească urgent modalităţi de reformare a sistemului capitalist, care a fost descris ca fiind “depăşit şi în curs de prăbuşire.” […]

  4. Bill says:
    January 25, 2012 at 14:26

    America is not now nor working towards Facism.

    AmeriKA is more Bolshevik and Socialized/Communist in this reard.

    Fascism is characterized by a strong National identy ala pre WW2 Germany, Italy, Japan.

    America is divided and fractured per the Jew.
    One can read Marx’s Communist Manifesto and see how it applies with the US model.
    Otherwise, good article.

  5. admin says:
    January 25, 2012 at 14:38

    Bill,
    “America is divided and fractured per the Jew.[…] America is not now nor working towards Fascism.” Are you sure, lol? 😉

  6. mexgulf says:
    January 25, 2012 at 15:54

    Bill, reread your poly sci books – the right likes to call this drift away from democracy communism when in reality it is Fascism – the marriage of corporations and government, utilizing a one man boogy-man (terrorists) to demonize on behalf of the state.

    You got to be a Fox guy – they have spread the rewrite of history and the definition of words at will to suit their purposes.

  7. jeb says:
    January 25, 2012 at 16:06

    Just read the book thoroughly annotated “Republican Fascism” for the facts…

  8. peter salmons says:
    January 25, 2012 at 19:23

    Folks, it looks like they are going for the BIG GRAB. Not good. Not good at all

    what does this mean?????

  9. mothman777 says:
    January 25, 2012 at 20:42

    Jewish capitalism funded the Jewish communist ‘revolution’ in Russia See ‘In the shadow of Hermes’ by Juri Lina. Fractional reserve banking, which makes everyone a slave, (buy a $100,000 house and pay back $300,000 over 25 years, but only $10,000 was real money in the first place, so you work 30 times longer to pay back what you borrowed) is the cornerstone of capitalism. Hitler banned fractional reserve banking, which makes people work for thin air, and Jewish communism is just another way of making people work for thin air; after all, goyim were only created to be slaves for the Jews according to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, that is why the goyim who are slaves get to have such a long life he says (You get to live shorter lives if you are not a slave, as many thousands of Libyans could testify if they still had their lives – they too made the fatal mistake of avoiding slavery by opting not to use fractional reserve banking). How about that for a nasty system, never mind arguing over semantics. And Bill is right.

  10. little guy says:
    January 25, 2012 at 21:39

    Actually, the New World Order is a hybrid system combining Capitalism and Communism under one roof…that’s why we’re seeing elements of both Fascism and Communism co-existing at the same time.

    Here’s a Quote from Congressman Larry P. McDonald, in 1976:

    “The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining Supercapitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control. Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.”

    @ mothman777: Yes, the Jews look upon the goyim as slaves and beasts of burden…but, they need the goyim; that’s why the Jews invented Christianity – to make the slaves feel better about being slaves!

    My Grandpa use to tell me “…the trick of it is to ask the right questions!”

    Question: how many Christians have held high-level positions within the US government (FBI, CIA, Secret Service, DoJ, etc.) over the past 235 years? Thousands? 10’s of thousands? More…?

    Question: WHY are we just now (within the past 10 years, or so) finding out about this GARGANTUAN plot by the JEWS to enslave the peoples of the world?!

    The Christians MUST be working to help the Jews to inflict their New World Order on this world…it’s not possible that the Christians are just innocent bystanders! They knew what the Jews were up to…they had to have known; it would absolutely impossible for them not to have known!

    But, here we are…right where Benjamin Franklin prophesied we would be!!

  11. mothman777 says:
    January 25, 2012 at 23:27

    @little guy Yes I agree with you. Check out my essay ‘Metanoia’ on this issue at Mothman777’s Blog’

  12. little guy says:
    January 26, 2012 at 05:10

    @ Mothman777: HA! I just went to your blog…’Metanoia’ is not an essay, my friend, it’s a book!

  13. Matt says:
    March 13, 2012 at 06:28

    Good post MexGulf

  14. Vonn says:
    March 24, 2012 at 05:27

    The jews certainly own our congress. Yes, I too would get confused in just whom it was that wants to rule the world, and I found that the zionist (not all jews are zionist) do wish they could rule the world but they unfortunately know that although they are high up in rank and order, it is the Vatican’s Jesuit’s Black Pope, Peter von ? that is top dog, along with his army, The Knights of Malta. They work hand in hand with the CIA.

    Regarding article: The damn audacity of Larry Summers. He is the top dog in the 2008 financle catastrophy. (Summers,Geithner, Volker…and Texas Goofball, Phill Graham and his Graham/Leavy(sp?) bill he created and got passed.