Some markis believe that we have returned to feudalism because of all this raw political power exercised in recent years and decades to redistribute wealth. On this reading, capital accumulation is driven solely by clean economic means of surplus extraction. The existence of extraneous expropriation enabling processes violence, raceism, dispossession, should be analytically bracketed out as non capitalist extras. If you really want to make them central to the understanding of how capitalism works, to you will be probably excommunicated or treatit as a postmarkist at best,. And as a new marxist also.
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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