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Market Stalinism
I’ve come to believe that Friedrich von Hayek was projecting when he claimed that socialism would usher in The Road to Serfdom, when in reality the road to serfdom has been paved by 21st century capitalism as embodied and … Continue reading
Is that all there is?
Gazing around our world it’s clear that neoliberalism has narrowed the possibilities. Is that all there is? Massive student debts, opioid addiction, homelessness and suicides. An economy based largely on scams and fraud, that leaves the vast majority of … Continue reading
Surveillance is the business model
In Surveillance Valley, Yasha Levine, challenges conventional wisdom and says that the Internet was actually founded by the US government as part of their counterinsurgency program in Vietnam. The US government wanted to build a connected computer system that … Continue reading
Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals
Tagged Cold War, control, corporate censorship is government censorship, counterinsurgency, cryptography, fake news, gig economy, Gil-Scott Herron, Internet, One Market Under God, precariat, privacy apps, propaganda, Signal, Silicon Valley, social media, surveillance, Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet, The Phoenix Program, The Revolution Will not be Televised, Thomas Frank, Tor, Vietnam, Yasha Levine
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