# Why do people say the World economic forum is pushing socialist views? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [February 15, 2024, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-say-the-world-economic-forum-is-pushing-socialist-views/997610 "2024-02-15T17:17:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 75
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-say-the-world-economic-forum-is-pushing-socialist-views/997610/75 "2024-02-19T19:00:34Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > If you want a cite for any panel offering up ideas for things like embedded chips, drugs with chips, global digital currencies and other far-out subjects, I’ll provide one. That’s all it takes to prove my claim that they do both, and that their enemies conflate them. Because you already know people do that. Then, why give oxygen to the sources that mislead many before? > [@Why do people say the World economic forum is pushing socialist views?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-say-the-world-economic-forum-is-pushing-socialist-views/997610/33): > > 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 … That is not what someone that understands **already** how misleading the right wing and conspiracy minded people should report about this issue. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-say-the-world-economic-forum-is-pushing-socialist-views/997610)._