Benito Mussolini (Picture: non copyright web archive)
Phrases like 'The New Normal' and 'The Great Reset' have crept into everyday language (courtesy of the World Economic Forum and other globalist organisations as they seek to advance agendas that offer nothing new, great or normal. Improved transport and communications systems, greater prosperity (in the liberal democracies at least,) and universal education have made a growing level of coordination between big business and national governments, i.e. “public-private partnership” to borrow a phrase beloved of Tony Blair and other globalist leaders, the de facto economic model for large, modern economies.
This model has for several decades appeared to be successful The People's Republic of China, as liberalisation of the old communist regime created by Mao Tse Tung, allowing the people to act on their own initiatives and in their own interests, thus enabling the uge nation with its diverse population of well over 1 billion people to transform itself from an anachronistic peasant economy to a dynamic modern nation able to challenge the USA and European industrial and financial global hegemony. Even sectors considered critical to the national security of the NATO alliance member states, such as the defence and telecom industries, now find contributing industries and their supply chains dominated by Chinese companies.
However, what we must take care not to forget about China is that it is still a communist dictatorship, the state and The Party are inseperable and the global businesses based in China and owned by Chinese money all have close links to the state. Thus nothing these companies do is without some politocal aspect. It is this 'oneness' of everything in China that has created the platform for the success of the public - private partnership model. Nothing is actually completely private.
The overelap of public and private sector collaboration makes sense in geopolitical terms and indeed may now be a necessity in order for the /US - UK - EU bloc to compete with the rapidly expanding BRICS organisation led by Russia and China and including other emerhing economies mostly in the global south.
Having said that, the public-private partnership model poses some significant risks for the liberal democracies. These are apparent in the way many of the free nations have become far more illiberal and less democratic since the turn of the century.
There are traditional arguments against state-corporate coordination from both the political Right and Left that we are all familiar with. From the Right, we hear warnings that state inference in the private sector risks undermining market mechanisms, and that “picking winners” risks creating significant inefficiencies and distortions. From the Left the complaint is that corporate influence risks distorting the government’s responsibility to adequately regulate corporate behaviour or to protect the interests of workers or the poor, or that corporate influence in government enables wealthy individuals (The Billionaire Psychopaths as this blog calls them, to exert undue influence over elected representatives.
The key problem with the public-private partnership model is that far too often in practice the actual public seem to be left out of the approach entirely. The alignment of corporate and state interests that occurs through the public-private partnership model enables both government and big business to operate entirely outside the system of democratic governance. The interests of various “stakeholders” — corporations,QANGOs (Quasi Autonomous Non Governmental Organisations, state bureaucracies, and numerous self-interested officials may be consulted, but the public opinion is way down the list of considerations.
A big problem is that there is a bit of a money merry-go-round here – and often it is not companies directly. The funding of non-grassroots NGOs often derives from very wealthy individuals and family foundations. Those NGOs lobby for action, but at the same time the funders are also investing in companies providing ‘solutions’ to the issues the NGOs are lobbying about. A simple example might be carbon tax credits for instance where there is a lobby for laws and regulations, but also business opportunities from the trade.
As an example, a funder can support NGOs that support changing
regulations on electric vehicles, but then also manipulate share prices on
car manufacturers, spark-plug manufacturers etc. If the policy comes
into being, the funder reaps the rewards via the movement in share prices, not the
direct investment.
Funders would say that funding NGOs for something they believe in, and
also investing in companies backing the same cause makes total moral
sense – charity and business views are aligned and there is no moral
equivocation or fault, the classic example being the way Bill Gates, having established himself as the global vaccines Czar, manipulated the market in pharmaceuticals shares during the COVID scamdemic.
However, from the point of view of the public, someone investing or making money from a policy they are also lobbying the government for looks rotten. (And it gets worse where the NGO is taking money from a funder, lobbying and then getting government money via grants or contracts to continue lobbying, amplifying the funders views with public money).Since these are not grassroots causes they often have little real public backing, and the money from the funders allows them to pay professional wages to connected people to get in to the committee rooms behind closed doors and influence government officers and elected representatives.
There’s an older name for “public-private partnership”: Fascism. At least that’s what its founder Mussolini regarded it as being, “the union of corporate and state power.” And, unsurpisingly it was a threat to democracy, and to the rule of law, and to liberalism (in its original meaning), then, and it is now. And no, democracy, rule of law and liberalism are not coextensive as too many seem to believe these days.
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NGOs are a pernicious and dangerous threat to democracy and yet their numbers and powers have been extended enoromously by politicians and parties that shout the loudest about their determination to 'protect democracy' (usually against other democratic parties that look as if they may win the next election.) Although some NGOs are well known, most lurk in the shadows, lobbying govt for prolicy initiative that voters have had no chance to support or oppose, often undermine the well being of said voters. Very few of them have grassroots support and are often funded by govt itself, non elected political organisations, supra national breaucracies such as The United Nations and the aforementioned billionaire psychopaths.