No, but they are okay with the state controlling the movements of people, their buying choices, what they can drive, what drugs they must take, what they can read or watch, what they can eat…
Call it techno-authoritarianism. Or Chinese Style state capitalism. That’s what the WEF wants. The smart people of the world running the lives of everyone else for their own good.
Possibly the ‘socialist’ worry comes from Klaus Schwab himself (founder of the WEF), who is quoted as saying “In the future you will have no privacy, and no property. And you will like it!”
More fascist is their push for ‘stakeholder capitalism’ and ‘ESG’ - both of which are now failing badly because they were always a bad idea.
There’s also an element of transhumanism in the WEF. They talk about life extension, the wonders of implantable chips in the body, yada yada. I have no problem with explorations into these areas, but they cross the line by talking about implementing this stuff globally.
One of the weird things about the WEF that hurts them is that it’s a strange amalgam of a UN-style government planning activities combined with TED-style talks by anyone willing to pony up the money to speak. So a serious conference on climate legislation is followed by a wild talk about embedding chips in people to track their Co2 or something, and people put them together as one proposal and it makes the serious stuff sound crazy too.
But there’s plenty of crazy even from the ‘serious’ people.
I take heart in the WEFs trajectory. Their themes in the past years were “The Great Reset”, followed by “Build Back Better”, followed by “The Great Narrative” (convincing people we need to reset and build back better), and to this year’s “Rebuilding Trust” (We tried to get them to do what we want and they hate us. Manipulating the narrative didn’t work. Now what?")
If you thought the WEF was meaningless and has no power, go look at how many world leaders repeated the “Build back Better” slogan while selling the public on whatever spending programs they wanted…