Posted on 04/25/2023 4:43:08 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Last week I descanted on the Obama-Biden enemies game, and how it leads to terrors, purges, and culture wars. But this week let us remember the other side of the rule of the educated: the repeated illusion that a few educated geniuses can transform the world's economy.
Joe Stalin was first out of the box with his Five-Year Plan, a brilliant scheme to transform the Soviet Union from an agricultural into an industrial state. What could be easier, what with all the brilliant intellectual minds that Stalin had gathered around him, not to mention Joe's extensive library of 20,000 books? Only, of course, on account of "saboteurs and wreckers," it didn't quite work out as the planners had predicted. The Five-Year Plan of 1928-32 was punctuated by the Soviet Famine of 1932-33. Still, only 6 to 8 million died. Thirty years later, Mao Tse-tung, as we then knew him, tried to repeat Stalin's achievement with another Five-Year Plan, the Great Leap Forward of 1958-62. There's no doubt that the Great Leap Forward made Stalin's Plan look like a walk in the park, with the Great Chinese Famine of 1959-61 causing 15-55 million deaths.
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It took two generations after Mao for the intellectual genius Klaus Schwab and his WEF to propose their Five-Year Plan, or Great Reset, with intellectuals and experts confidently proposing how to transform the economy from fossil fuels to renewable resources and Net Zero. Little kiddies, encouraged by the Deep State are, shall we say, "struggling" climate deniers and conservative judges and transphobes that refuse to get with the program.
How do we teach the kiddies and the experts and the intellectuals that Five-Year Plans Never Work?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The Great Reset would cause more starvation than anything ever seen before. It seems that the plan may be to reduce the world population by over 90%.
“By 1900, around half of Russia’s heavy industries were foreign-owned – but the Russian empire was the world’s fourth-largest producer of steel and its second-largest source of petroleum.”
https://alphahistory.com/russianrevolution/russian-industrialisation/
From Wikipedia:
Eighth Plan (1991–1995)
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Gross national product in 1995 reached 5.76 trillion yuan ($730 billion), 4.3 times higher than that in 1980.
Outputs of coal, cement, TV, foodstuff, cotton and cotton dresses were the highest in the world, with steel and chemical fiber outputs second, and electricity supply third.
China’s economy experienced an annual growth of 11%, 4 percentage points higher than that during the 7th Five-Year planning period.
Total investment in fixed assets during this time hit 3.89 trillion yuan, with an annual growth rate of 17.9%, 13.6 percentage points higher than the previous planning period. Of these, state-owned units’ investments saw an annual growth of 22.9%, much higher than the average growth of 4.1% previously.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-year_plans_of_China
“The wartime output of America’s arsenal of democracy was astounding: 197,760 combat aircraft, 88,410 tanks and self-propelled artillery, 257,390 towed artillery, 2,382,311 military trucks, 137 large and small (“jeep”) aircraft carriers, 349 destroyers, 203 submarines, and 2,710 “Liberty” cargo ships.”
https://www.rand.org/blog/2022/06/what-better-way-to-use-the-arsenal-of-democracy.html
When will the People NOT in charge realize that there are literally MILLIONS more of them that there are the human-hating elitists? No elitist should survive past a certain expiration date. Perhaps the deeper lessons of the French Revolution were missed but gotta love the rolling heads of change.
Depends on what the end goal is. Seems to be a great way to kill the opposition
At least we get to vote on any dramatic, foolish “reset”. /sarc
The people in charge have hugely successful propaganda. Heck... That gives me an idea. Become a starvation “influencer” on tiktok. Make cute little videos in a dress showing how make dirt cookies, rock soup from dirty water, and the lates recipes to cook the bugs you can find in the garden.
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