"More than ever, it is becoming clear that populist movements of either the left or the right—or some combination thereof—must seek to reclaim control of the digital network, which now constitutes a substantial part of the political and economic infrastructure of the neoliberal order. Populism must find some way to develop a form of technocratic expertise if it is to have any hope of controlling the digital network."
- #JonathanCulbreath, 'Technopopulism and the Online Class War', 2021
"As the Slovenian Marxist philosopher, Slavoj Zizek, has remarked (commenting on [Curzio] Malaparte’s account of the October Revolution), today’s equivalent of the old Russian infrastructure that Trotsky occupied is none other than the digital network. Thus, it is the digital network that ought to be the primary locus and target of revolutionary activity."
- #JonathanCulbreath, 'Technopopulism and the Online Class War', 2021
#SlavojZizek #CurzioMalaparte #OctoberRevolution #DigitalNetwork
"There is, however, a major difference between the two events: Trotsky’s coup was a proletarian revolution; the latest Big Tech coup was a reactionary bourgeois counterrevolution."
Most anarchists would argue that this supposed difference is an example of historical revisionism by Bolshevik apologists. IMHO Trotsky's coup was also part of a bourgeois counterrevolution, with parallel to the Cultural Revolution in China:
https://www.thebellows.org/the-new-cultural-revolution/
"The GameStop revolt ... undoubtedly came much closer to posing a real threat to Wall Street than anything ever achieved by the Occupy Wall Street movement or by the rise of populist politicians like Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders. The reason why it came so much closer to success is that it was, in some small way, a technical revolution, one which shook the digital foundations of the economic edifice of financial capitalism."
- #JonathanCulbreath, 'Technopopulism and the Online Class War', 2021
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