The Hi-tech Custodial/Surveillance State

Somebody asked me whether what progressives are trying to accomplish with their social programs was communism. No. Corporatism. Totalitarian monopoly capitalism. It’s the new fascism. Corporatism = corporate power + administrative state + technocratic apparatus + public unions.

The hi-tech surveillance state (AI generated)

In my last essay I talked about the custodial state of the inner-city neighborhood of America. Managing the redundant black population is the long-standing pilot program. Democrats have created a strata that votes for a living (instead of works for a living) and knitted together a rainbow coalition conditioned to hate whites and the West. That’s the political/social angle of mass migration and multiculturalism.

It’s the way the monarch manages the tribes. It’s a Third World wet dream.

Next pieces to emplace: digital currency, social credit scheme, universal basic income. Make people dependent on government. You will own nothing and be happy. The executives will use your living room for meetings. Better keep it clean. You know the thing.

It’s a neo-feudalism model. The working class will become the new serfs managed by a hi-tech custodial/surveillance state apparatus. It will have some appearance of state socialism; but instead of an administrative elite, the ultimate source of power and control will be transnational corporate class (TNCs) and big finance.

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Andrew Austin

Andrew Austin is on the faculty of Democracy and Justice Studies and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin—Green Bay. He has published numerous articles, essays, and reviews in books, encyclopedia, journals, and newspapers.

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