Capitalism is the same as Neo-feudalism. Billionaires have absolute control over nations like the United States. Billionaires are just as powerful as monarchs.

#neofeudalism
#capitalism
#monarchy
#feudalism

In a newsletter Charles Ornstein, managing editor for ProPublica News' community coverage, describes one series of events illustrating what it might be like for a journalist specializing in #accountability, working in a closed authoritarian regime. What it *is* like, actually.

#journalism #closedGovernment #journo #journalists #fourthEstate #totalitarianism #authoritarianism #feudalism #plutocracy

https://link.propublica.net/view/68cdaa56bb7007376780d609ppqxo.3yjk/5a7ebf82

"...the published press phone number for the department appeared, at all hours, to be a black hole, with a recorded message saying it was 'temporarily closed.'
(It still indicates that.)"

It was a couple of days ago :") The #SoimahTribute challenge, given the fact that she is one of the currently active main judges there, surely screams #feudalism vibe though. Other than icikiwir and oplosan a couple of years ago, I have no idea what are her other songs 🫠🙃

Just when I thought the creatives at IDol could not be more ridiculous.....

Once again, Varoufakis elides the main distinctive feature of capitalism: Being a mode production aimed at capital accumulation through the exploitation of human labor...

"From this perspective, just as the Soviet Union was a feudal-like industrial society pretending to be a workers’ state, the United States today is performing a splendid impersonation of a technofeudal state, with repercussions that extend to every realm of state activity, including health services, education, the tax office, our borders and faraway battlefields.

In Ukraine and Gaza, and along our militarised borders, cloud capital is trained to extend its reach. Amazon’s AI tool Rekognition is used by law enforcement, including ICE, while Palantir’s vast surveillance software runs on Amazon’s cloud. Through Project Nimbus, Amazon and Google provide the Israeli military with advanced cloud and AI capabilities, reportedly enabling rapid, AI-driven targeting in Gaza with minimal human oversight.

Let us briefly return to the comparison with the early 20th century’s original monopolist capitalists. Whether we admire or abhor the Magnificent Seven’s stock market valuations, it is helpful to keep this in mind: the old capitalist giants, the “robber barons”, actually produced things. The new technofeudal lords produce a new social order. They have replaced the invisible hand of the market with the visible, algorithmic fist of the cloudalist.

Free-market enthusiasts have nothing to celebrate and much to regret. But it will take a brave soul amongst them to stare reality in the face. Just like pro-Soviet Marxists remained in denial that the Soviet experiment had failed for many years after 1991, so free-market ideologues refuse to see that capitalism begat a form of capital — cloud capital — that replaced markets with something out of the Soviet past. In the process, it has killed capitalism."

https://unherd.com/2025/12/big-tech-are-the-new-soviets/

#BigTech #Capitalism #Feudalism #Technofeudalism #SovietUnion #USSR

This is the regime our Prime Minister sucks up to is it?

#MAGA #LauraLoomer #USPOL #USPOLITICS #Fascism #Feudalism #Democracy #Authorirarianism #Starmer #KeirStarmer

I realised a long time ago we were heading to a new kind of feudalism.

Glad to see more learned people than me touching on this subject.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=41diQcq3Lq8

#fuckcapitalism #feudalism #technofeudalism