How the Center-Left is Responsible for the Rise of Fascism
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Few years ago I was thinking that it's impossible for the prices of real estate to forever go up in price, because that's what's been happening before the #2007 #crysis and it resulted in the great crysis. So naturally, if the prices seem to be doing exactly the same thing again, it will come down crashing again. That was my expectation.
I forgot that #feudalism is an option. The reason 2007 crysis happened was that they messed up. They won't mess up again.
Just curious: What do you consider the first #capitalist society?
Generally, folks seem to think of the 19th century. Roughly when #Industrialisation moved the power to exploit people from "power by noble birth" (#Feudalism) to "power by capital ownership" (#Capitalism) on a large scale. With a lot of overlap, of course.
Yet some Marxists as well as "Capitalism= #PrivateProperty" folks argue an earlier beginning of capitalism.
> Trump to ‘reignite’ US economy with introduction of Feudalism https://newsthump.com/2025/04/07/trump-to-reignite-us-economy-with-introduction-of-feudalism/
NewsThump · Trump to ‘reignite’ US economy with introduction of FeudalismDonald Trump has announced plans to further shake up the US economy with the introduction of feudalism.
Saying that #Trump et al want to drag us back to #feudalism is a bit awkward.
#Capitalism is feudalism; just with a few extra, obfuscating steps. The neoliberal #fascists are just removing these extra steps.
Here's what's going to happen when our services are privatized. First, some services will just be gone. Public good services that aren't seen as profitable will be gone. That's things like Social Security. Why would a billionaire get involved with that? They'll just steal the existing funds and shut it down. Second, services that we already paid for with our taxes, which could be monetized, like NOAA, we'll still pay for but we'll pay lots more and we'll pay it monthly like a cable company. We'll end up with a whole list of new service "subscriptions" for everything from the weather to schools. And our taxes will NOT go down because we'll still be paying for billionaires and mega corps to pay NO taxes just like we do now, while the government continues to operate things like the DOD (which will itself be pared down, sold off in parts, and augmented with billionaire-owned privateers). This new country the billionaires want is a return to feudalism in which you will owe your liege lords all kinds of money every month while scrabbling to keep your families alive, with all the "services for the public good" gone.
#coup #corrupion #networkState #darkEnlightenment #fascism #feudalism #authoritarianism #kleptocracy #kakistocracy #oligarchy
A sign of strange times when Steve Bannon, of all people, (sort of) nails the description of the Silicon Valley oligarchy and techno feudalism:
Just going to hypothesize something here... for posterity and accountability to weird strategic thoughts I have when I try to channel this Musk creep. The tech-bro's have already taken over. That is why they are now sending the DOGE teams with armed escorts and guns to smash small offices of the government. Trump is the vindictive figurehead. It's the tech lords running the show, and they're going to do a deal with China to get rid of Putin.
I'm open to the possibility of something beyond shocking happening. There have already been rumors of revaluing the gold at Fort Knox, restructuring the debt, a national cryptocurrency...
What about, a merger / joint venture with China and the US becomes a total one-party state, USA Inc. They'll leave the illusion of elections, and the Dems will continue to be the useful idiots as they have been for a decade.
The game is no longer Dem vs. Rep. There will be no normal midterms. The struggle at the top is between the Christian Nationalists, the technofascist (Nation State) crowd, and the MAGA base that Bannon leads. Think of Bannon's people as the brown shirts they'll eventually use to silence dissent.
Imagine a chip-access deal or some sort of organized takeover of Taiwan (stripping the island of its sovereignty in Trump fashion) over a set period of time for USA, Inc. to be able to scale semiconductor fabs.
The culture war is a distraction. The rich are stealing the future. 
We have an in-depth article by Richard Abels that looks at the idea and debate around 'feudalism'. It is a great read. https://www.medievalists.net/2025/03/historiography-feudalism-medieval-historian/ #feudalism #medieval #historians
Medievalists.net · The Historiography of a Construct: “Feudalism” and the Medieval Historian - Medievalists.netWas medieval Europe truly a "feudal" society, or is feudalism a modern construct imposed on the past? This article explores how historians have debated, redefined, and even rejected the term, shaping our understanding of medieval governance and society.
Security is a social problem first, a tech problem second
The #geekproblem locks us into hardcoded #feudalism, power structures baked into the code itself, with server admins as kings, users as serfs. To break this, we need to build trust-based paths first and let security emerge from that, rather than bolting it on after the fact.What actually needs to be secured? The account → If the instance isn’t secure, the account isn’t either. The activity feed → The flows need to be secured to prevent manipulation. The credit (data […]https://hamishcampbell.com/security-is-a-social-problem-first-a-tech-problem-second/
hamishcampbell.comSecurity is a social problem first, a tech problem second – Hamish Campbell
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The chaos you're seeing in the US results from the ongoing death of #capitalism as they knew it
But unlike socialist theory claims, it's not being replaced by communism but a reversion back to #feudalism
The 2008 bailouts changed the game. A guarantee of stockmarket growth was now backed by tax dollars
The endless growth backstop prioritized fast scaling in 2010's to form monopolies
#Platforms now rent people even their job, with no market in between
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@muellertadzio @Kipppunkt apropos Dune. Audiobook of George Guidall is the best :)
"Dune has an important aspect to tell about the current state of planet earth alongside its leading disruptive species. The #climatecrisis in its radical intrusion of the living net on this planet is the accelerated reverse of what the Fremen under Liet Keynes are trying to accomplish on Arrakis, and so a potential prophecy on what future species could reach for on earth."
#ecology #feudalism #phrophecy
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I don't always share #Bandcamp songs, but when I do, it's some scathing social criticism.
I don't claim to understand #BlackCulture, nor have I directly experienced the conditions of #CRT, nor do downplay the #authoritarian and #murderous #police of the #USA.
But, if poverty was as pervasive in Norway as it is in the #US, I can bet you there'd be Norwegians killing Norwegians every day and feudalism could return.
#American #feudalism is still a thing for some folk.
The only correct way to treat royalty
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@flyhigh it is.
But as any #African intellectual will tell you, first the #oligarchy and #elite of #Africa has to be dealt with, #freetrade between African nations need to happen (actual free trade, none of this wishy washy bullshit), #feudalism needs to die in a fire and basically all predatory contracts with multinationals needs to also gtfo or renegotiate.
Then there's some of those IMF loans that were made in bad faith on both sides. That needs to be a lawsuit in the #ICJ.
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@yianiris first you'd have to break libertarianism and make sure that people after the fact for generations don't sell off their property to centralized ownership once more, because then you'll just see a return of the oligarchy.
When law is then subverted and changed to favour the rich, which always seems to happen, the system only serves the rich - again!
And then when they are only ones with guns, welcome to pure #capitalist #feudalism.
If that's what you want, then libertarianism it is.