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Capitalism is capitalism, not technofeudalism | Nicholas Gane (journals.sagepub.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml to c/genzedong@lemmygrad.ml

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Because y'all shouldn't fall for this moralistic and anachronistic nonsense. The rentier bourgeoisie controls the servers and data centres (vulgarly called "cloud") like they did before with the railways, the shipping infrastructure, the airlines, energy, the production and redistribution of oil and gasoline, and even other forms of communications infrastructure.

Reframing the rentier bourgeoisie as some new unique stage of development beyond capitalism (and smuggling in liberal moralisms about "fiefdoms" and "feudal lords") is just yet another European attempt at reframing the current regressive nature of capitalism as not-capitalism in order to defend the status quo as a "democracy" at risk.

And this author doesn't even get into Imperialism in his critique.

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[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

‘libertarian Marxist’ alternative that Varoufakis proposes in its place, which abdicates any interest in the regulatory powers of the state and, paradoxically, advocates consumer-based political action to damage the market position of big corporate entities

What could drive someone to make this claim? China is right there. Maybe he thinks big tech is too powerful and exploitative in China too?

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Western Leftism™, he once boasted how consistently he has both sided every single geopolitical conflict, i.e. celebrates head choppers taking over syria but "raises concerns" about the future, celebrates overthrown of gaddafi but denounces NATO role, celebrates Hussein overthrown but denounces the invasion, etc... He would happily celebrate a fall of China but raise concern of US hegemony or smt. Never takes the antiimperialist side, pretends to oppose the imperialist side while living in the imperial core.

[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago

The ultimate "both sides"-er.