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For the purposes of discussing the article, Yanis's grasp of working class realities is moot; his thesis is that: From this perspective, just as the Soviet U
by defrost 11mo ago
For the purposes of discussing the article, Yanis's grasp of working class realities is moot; his thesis is that:
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
- nephihaha 11mo agoI don't agree with that interpretation either. The USA is not very feudal at all, yet. I live in a country which is still partly feudal and was even more feudal when I was a child. Ordinary Americans often have a very different attitude to life, less deferent to government than more feudal countries, and more independent minded. It may well head towards technofeudalism, but I dispute that. With automation, the peasantry become dispensable to the ruling class and that isn't very feudal at all. Feudalism is a system where money and power flows upwards. In feudalism, the lords are dependent on the peasantry for food, goods and troops... Which is not the case when all these are provided by machines.