“Big Tech, Big Oil, Big Banks and Big Brother: The Rise of Technofascism”

The alliance between the Digerati (Big Tech elites) and the Cowboys (resource barons), reluctantly joined by the Yankees (finance capitalists), has birthed a political-economic Frankenstein. Under Trump’s banner, this unholy coalition consolidates power into what can only be described as a technofascist plutocracy—an empire that subverts democracy under the guise of populism while intensifying global exploitation.

The Digerati, masters of surveillance capitalism, craft digital panopticons that monitor, manipulate, and monetize human behavior. This technology isn’t neutral; it’s a tool to centralize power, crush dissent, and ensure workers remain atomized and pliable. Meanwhile, the Cowboys, with their fortunes tied to fossil fuels, agribusiness, and raw material extraction, cling to the old capitalist model of plunder and planetary ruin. They see in Big Tech an ally capable of masking ecological destruction with the sheen of “progress.” Together, they peddle a mythology of innovation, masking the reality of deepening inequality and environmental collapse.

Finance capitalists, the erstwhile hegemonic faction, initially balked at the crude populism Trump represented. But their ideological commitment to maintaining global capital flows, regardless of the cost to humanity, ensures their cooperation. For the Yankees, it’s better to ride this rising technofascist tide than risk disruption from below.

This system weaponizes technology to stabilize an imperial capitalist order under strain. Consider surveillance infrastructure, not as an Orwellian warning, but as an operating system for authoritarian governance. Algorithms prioritize profit over human need, privatized platforms choke off labor organizing, and digital “truth markets” flood the public sphere with manufactured consent. Meanwhile, fossil-fueled militarization reinforces neocolonial relations, with drones patrolling borders and resource wars waged under the guise of “defense.”

What sets the U.S. working class apart from the militant peasants and workers of the Global South is material privilege. The labor aristocracy, propped up by imperial rents and consumer pacification, trades solidarity for iPhones. In contrast, workers in the Global South confront the empire’s violence head-on—its resource extraction, debt traps, and sweatshops. They resist because survival demands it. Yet their struggles are systematically erased or vilified in Western media, replaced by narratives that elevate technocrats and billionaires as saviors.

The antidote to this consolidation of technofascist power lies in reclaiming collective agency and struggle. Lessons from the Global South and the Black Radical Tradition show that liberation comes from grassroots struggle, not elite bargains. Workers and oppressed peoples must dismantle the infrastructure of exploitation—be it fossil fuels, data monopolies, or militarized borders—and build institutions of dual and contending power rooted in working class solidarity, revolutionary nationalism, and ecological sustainability.

This alliance isn’t just a phase in American politics; it’s the latest, and hopefully final, stage of parasitic capitalist imperialism. The technofascist plutocracy consolidates power by blending the Cowboys’ extractivist appetites, the Digerati’s surveillance tools, and the Yankees’ financial levers. It’s a system that depends on suppressing resistance both domestically and abroad. Whether this empire thrives or collapses depends on whether its victims can transform discontent into revolutionary action and socialist transformation.