Comment by Manuel_D
4 days ago
What is this in reference to? Karp has said that US tech companies should be more willing to work with military and intelligence agencies. By that standard, though, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Booz Allen Hamilton, heck even Microsoft are all supporters of "technofascism".
> By that standard, though, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Booz Allen Hamilton, heck even Microsoft are all supporters of "technofascism".
certainly! fascism requires industry that cooperates with the state to produce the means of control; these are all companies that do exactly that!
By this logic, Ford and Boeing were contributing to technofascism when they were building tanks and planes for the Allies in WWII.
I don't think that most would agree with your understanding of technofascism.
Ford propped Nazis in WW2, maybe that’s why you can’t put your finger on it.
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There were fascist elements in what allies were doing to defeat fascism.
> heck even Microsoft are all supporters of "technofascism"
no one in their right mind is going to argue with that, not sure what your point is
Microsoft, a company mostly centered in the Pacific Northwest, is not exactly full of right wingers: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/microsoft-corp/summary?id=d...
Most of their employees are foreign and dont even fall on the left right poltical spectrum.
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owners and workers arent the same group
washington is full of right wing elites, even though the citizens are quite left wing
repeat that and look back at it?
the military industrial complex is certainly a fascist institution