The way the capitalist system works is that you essentially go and sell your labor. But in feudalism, this surplus extraction happens quite visibly - so nobody is in denial about it. Under properly working capitalism, you're not saying that under capitalism, sort of, iideal exactly. The bottom n is that all that happens invisibly somehow, but cleanly. Aythin. You sign up the contract. There is absolutely no formal beating you up on day on the heath with some kind of a weapon.
Featuring Evgeny Morozov on his essay "Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason." Thinkers from the Marxist left all the way to the neoliberal and even neo-reactionary right are convinced that we’ve exited capitalism entirely and entered neo-feudalism. Morozov argues that our bleak moment is in fact still a thoroughly capitalist one.
Evgeny's essay: newleftreview.org/issues/ii133/articles/evgeny-morozov-critique-of-techno-feudal-reason
Evgeny's website: evgenymorozov.com
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