Klaus Schwab and the Men Who Molded Him (Part One)
“History is truly at a turning point. We do not yet know the full extent and the systemic and structural changes which will happen.” — Klaus Schwab (World Government Summit, March, 2022)
Over the course of the coming few years – as the supply chains break down and people watch their savings eroded into worthlessness; as the media spoon-feeds us more cover stories and politicians begin floating the notion of food rationing, GMOs, digital IDs and eventually carbon-based social credit systems – a sizeable segment of the population are going to find themselves confronted with the question, ‘Who is Klaus Schwab?’
On the face of it, this seems a pretty easy one to answer. Front-and-center of Schwab’s most substantial of résumés is his role as founder and chairman of the World Economic Forum: “an international non-governmental and lobbying organization [which] engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas.” As such, Klaus has his hand in a variety of progressive causes – climate change, economic inequity, and “sustainability” just some of his key areas of concern. So too is he an author, economist, and business guru; a philanthropist, policy advisor and vocal proponent of “a kindlier capitalism”, not to mention (as the growing number of MSM fluff-pieces invariably do), Schwab’s newfound status as the cheerfully bemused subject of numerous right-wing conspiracy theories.
It is my intention, throughout the course of this series, to piece together a rather less sterilized image of the man, to go beyond his ghostwritten books and carefully constructed press releases in the hope of glancing the real motivations behind The Fourth Industrial Revolution. To do this directly is nigh on impossible. So thoroughly has the WEF purged the mainstream internet of details detrimental to their ambitions that much of Schwab’s life has been airbrushed into non-existence, fragments of his character, and thus evidence of his worldview, instead unearthed by profiling those known to have influenced him. This will include ideological allies and business mentors, college educators and even spiritual leaders, but whatever the impression any of these individuals may have left on Schwab, it is those bonded by blood with whom he bears the most striking resemblance.
“To my parents, Eugen Wilhelm Schwab and Erika Epprecht who taught me firsthand the value of education, collaboration, and the stakeholder principle”.
The passage above is taken from the dedication of Klaus Schwab’s recently published Stakeholder Capitalism; a book which, in essence, constitutes his manifesto for the planet’s post-Covid economy. This is the sole mention Schwab is recorded as making of his parents (or at least, the sole mention which survives in the public domain), and yet, even this brief glimpse into his inner world is only partially true.
