The Global Rollout of Stakeholder Sovietism
From Lenin to the WEF—How DEI and Its Siblings Are Rewiring Civilization Under the Banner of Inclusion
The Soviet Origin of DEI: Lenin’s DAI
In the early 1920s, Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin launched a radical cultural program in the newly formed Soviet Union that eerily resembles modern Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) frameworks. The Soviet version was called DAI: Diversity, Actual Equality, and Indigenization. These initiatives were not simply about uplifting minorities; they were about restructuring society by targeting the dominant ethnic and cultural majority—what they called "Great Russian chauvinism."
This program, documented in speeches and writings from 1921–1923, was aimed at deconstructing Russian cultural dominance in favor of a managed, multiethnic state controlled by the ideological elite. Lenin wrote that indigenization and actual equality were essential to overcoming traditional hierarchies. The parallels to today’s DEI are unmistakable.
As James Lindsay notes:
"When you read about these programs, you can see how overwhelmingly similar they were to what we consider to be DEI today... This was their second most important program for the development of the Soviet Union."
At a glance | What Lindsay revealed:
Diversity (Разнообразие), Actual Equality (Фактическое равенство), and Indigenization (Коренизация)were official Soviet policies from 1921–1923.
The goal? Engineer society against “Great Russian chauvinism” the same logic used today to wage ideological war against “whiteness” in the West.
This was not surface-level tolerance. It was about destroying the dominant cultural-religious framework and replacing it with a new “universal man.”
👉 This matches Herbert Marcuse’s idea of repressive tolerance, where traditional (Christian) values must be suppressed in the name of liberation.
BEE in South Africa: The Prototype for Western Collapse
South Africa’s Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) is the modern execution of the Soviet DAI template. It institutionalizes racial quotas, wealth redistribution, and economic licensing under the banner of equity. But the result has been economic decay, corruption, and increased division, all while being promoted globally as a model of "inclusive growth."
BEE is not about justice, it is about controlled demolition of national sovereignty through collectivist restructuring.
Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) mimics Soviet DAI policies nearly verbatim:
Diversity quotas
Redistributive economic policy based on race
Mandatory inclusion targets
Backed by UN, WEF, and global banking networks, South Africa became the testbed for using race-based economic Marxism to implode a Westernized economy under the pretense of “equity.”
🧠 DEI = BEE = DAI
The acronyms change. The strategy doesn’t.
Global Variants: The DEI Weapon Worldwide
Today, the DAI/DEI template is global. It has been translated to match local cultures but keeps the same subversive core: dismantle the majority, empower managed identity groups, and enforce compliance through economic and educational systems.
Examples of Global DEI Variants:
USA: DEI, ESG, SEL — Enforced through corporate mandates and educational policy.
South Africa: BEE (Black Economic Empowerment) — Racialized licensing and quota system promoted as "equity."
European Union: DEI, Equality Bodies, ESG — Regulatory structures woven into law via EU directives.
Canada: EDI (Equity, Diversity, Inclusion) — Tied to federal and provincial funding for institutions and nonprofits.
Australia: Reconciliation Action Plans + DEI — HR and ESG protocols under the guise of national healing.
India: Caste-based reservation policies + DEI — Affirmative action embedded in hiring and education.
China: Social Harmony — Social credit system enforcing ideological conformity and compliance.
UN / Global South: Inner Development Goals (IDGs) — Framed as “resilience” and “well-being,” used to shape global values and behavior.
Stakeholder Capitalism = Stakeholder Sovietism
The WEF calls it Stakeholder Capitalism. But as James Lindsay rightly puts it, the better name is Stakeholder Sovietism. It’s not just about economics, it’s about ideological governance:
ESG scores replace the Five-Year Plan.
Stakeholders are the new "workers councils"—but unelected, often corporate NGOs, and ideological.
Expert-led councils determine moral and economic priorities for all.
Youth activism is orchestrated to appear grassroots, but is often AstroTurf.
Experts and NGOs become the new commissars.
Global citizenship replaces national sovereignty.
Klaus Schwab admits in The Great Narrative that this system is not optional:
“Measuring ESG performance will be the gold standard of business adherence to stakeholder value.”
As James Lindsay powerfully states:
“Stakeholder Capitalism is just Sovietism with corporate branding.”
And it all runs through corporations because, as Lindsay notes, “The business of America is business.”
From Great Russian Chauvinism to White Supremacy
A Globalist Rebrand
In 1923, Lenin and Stalin outlined one of the Soviet Union’s most critical cultural engineering programs: the suppression of “Great Russian chauvinism.” This term was code for dismantling the dominant ethnic and cultural identity of Russia’s majority population—framing it as inherently oppressive. Fast forward to May 2023, and U.S. President Joe Biden echoed that exact ideological playbook when he declared:
“White supremacy … is the single most dangerous terrorist threat in our homeland. And I’m not just saying this because I’m at a Black HBCU. I say this wherever I go.”
—President Joe Biden, Howard University Commencement Address, May 13, 2023 [Politico, 2023]
This is not accidental rhetoric, it is a signal of full ideological alignment with the same tactic deployed a century earlier by Soviet Communists. Just as the USSR justified authoritarian restructuring in the name of combating "chauvinism," Biden’s administration uses the modern rebranding of the term, “white supremacy” to justify widespread social reengineering via DEI, CRT, ESG, SEL and domestic extremism frameworks. These are not neutral policies. They are the ideological descendants of Soviet DAI (Diversity, Actual Equality, Indigenization), a framework designed to fragment nations, deconstruct faith-based heritage, and pave the way for technocratic collectivism. Biden’s allegiance to this narrative reveals not independence, but submission to the globalist dialectic of permanent revolution.
This global rollout of DEI, BEE and their regional equivalents is not organic, grassroots progress, it’s the calculated scaffolding of a long-standing agenda.
Behind the curated language of inclusion and sustainability lies the same hidden hand that has been steering nations for centuries—WEF, UN, Davos, Neocons, champagne socialists and limousine lefties and their technocratic kin. It’s not progress; it's programming.
Technocratic compliance and identity politics engineer the new world order.
The Dialectical Fusion: Corporate + State Power
Corporate communism isn’t a contradiction—it’s the final form.
Fascism (state + corporate fusion) is used functionally to execute the deeper Marxist transformation.
Schwab admits: ESG metrics will determine compliance.
Planned spontaneity creates the illusion of grassroots support (especially among youth).
As Lindsay points out, communism has evolved. It has merged with fascist tactics and corporate structure to create Corporate Communism or Communism 3.0:
"A fully developed American communism would come through corporations... because that's how America works."
This is why the WEF and UN speak of "sustainable capitalism," "inclusive economies," and the "well-being economy" — they are ideological cloaks for planned economies governed by unelected councils, using ESG and DEI as control mechanisms.
This is the top-down (corporate/governmental), bottom-up (orchestrated youth and NGO activism), inside-out (value reengineering through education and media) revolution Klaus Schwab describes in The Great Narrative.
🔁 Top-down (corporate mandates)
🔁 Bottom-up (youth protests, social media pressure)
🔁 Inside-out (new values | norms: “equity,” “sustainability,” “resilience”) via SEL/IDGs
The real aim? A new global order, where obedience to "inclusion" is the new social contract and global citizenship replaces national sovereignty, local autonomy and God.
Why It’s a Scam And a Spiritual War
The targeting of “Great Russian chauvinism” in the 1920s and “white supremacy” today follow the same script.
It’s not about helping minorities, it’s about erasing the moral order rooted in Christianity and replacing it with a technocratic theosophy.
This is the theosophical communist religious cult Lindsay references. It’s not materialist, it’s spiritual warfare masquerading as progress as it always does.
DEI Goes East: Singapore & Indonesia Join the Stakeholder Soviet Bloc
While Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is often seen as a Western export, the framework is rapidly taking root in Southeast Asia—repurposed to suit local cultures but driven by the same globalist ideology.
In Singapore, the financial sector now operates under the CFA Institute’s DEI Code, aligning banks and asset managers with ESG-linked inclusion metrics. Consulting firms like Protiviti openly implement equity protocols designed to reshape workplace culture—not from the ground up, but through top-down compliance systems (CFA Institute 2022, Protiviti 2024).
Meanwhile in Indonesia, DEI-style social engineering emerges through both corporate and activist fronts. Companies like Merdeka Copper Gold are celebrated for "diversity communication," while movements like Gerakan Indonesia Tanpa Diskriminasi mirror the ideological push toward social cohesion, tolerance enforcement, and identity-based governance (Merdeka Copper Gold 2024, Wikipedia).
There are growing signs of radicalization in Bali, Indonesia, where protests, messaging and public campaigns have targeted foreign visitors ("Bule") for offending local religious norms. These incidents reflect a deeper ideological undercurrent aimed at fueling cultural and racial discord. In parallel, recent reports highlight that some Hindu groups in Indonesia have been radicalized, with concerns about ongoing radicalization and tensions between Hindus and Muslims.
Incremental strategic priming for a Bali-style cultural revolution? These developments suggest that certain factions may be attempting to stoke divisions in Bali between local populations and foreigners. This has the aroma of the crafty globalist special-sauce. Together, these developments point to coordinated efforts to deepen societal rifts and provoke hostility toward outsiders under the guise of preserving cultural identity. (Facebook Group, 2023)
Nowhere is immune. Whether it’s wrapped in sustainability, harmony, justice, or equity, the blueprint is clear: Southeast Asia is being swept into the same ideological current—under the watchful eye of ESG, the UN, and technocratic planners.
A Kingdom Perspective: Trusting God's Sovereign Hand
As the world hurtles toward a counterfeit order, built on control, deception, and man-made “unity,” we must remember: God is not unaware. He sees the schemes of the nations (Psalm 2), and He laughs—not because He is indifferent, but because His purposes will not be thwarted.
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. - Romans 8:28
Though the systems of this world grow darker, the Christian is not called to despair, we are called to faithful presence. To speak truth, to stand firm, and to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ, knowing we are His ambassadors (2 Corinthians 5:20), and our allegiance is to the King of kings.
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. - 2 Corinthians 5:20
It is a privilege to represent Christ in this hour of history. We are not victims of circumstance, we are vessels of redemption, entrusted with the eternal message that pierces through every counterfeit ideology: Christ is risen, and He reigns.
Soli Deo Gloria!
Summer Black, Director, Armor of Truth
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