The Political Economy of Technofascism: The Decline of Empire and the Mass Surveillance Police-Military State

I. Welcome to the Age of Algorithmic Tyranny

The United States, self-declared bastion of democracy and free markets, is hurtling toward a new stage of imperial control—one where capitalists no longer have to bother with the messy business of elections, mass mobilizations, or even the illusion of a social contract. Why worry about governing when you can automate obedience?

Welcome to technofascism: the merger of corporate monopoly, state power, and digital surveillance into a seamless system of control. If classical fascism was jackboots and mass rallies, today’s version is AI-driven predictive policing, algorithmic censorship, and digital enclosures that make feudalism look quaint. No need for a secret police when you have Palantir. No need for book burnings when Google can just delist whatever offends capital.

At the heart of this project is the ruling class reshuffling itself like a rigged deck of cards. The old Cowboy-Yankee rivalry—the oil barons and war hawks versus the Wall Street technocrats—is now a three-way power struggle with a new faction: the Digerati, Silicon Valley’s tech aristocracy. Together, they are building a world where financialization, militarization, and AI surveillance fuse into a digital caste system.

This essay traces the economic logic of technofascism, grounding theory in hard data. Because while the language of “innovation” and “national security” dresses up this system as progress, its goal is the same as always: to concentrate wealth, crush dissent, and ensure that the working class—whether in the U.S. or the Global South—remains trapped in precarity.

II. Fascism, But Make It Tech-Savvy

In the 20th century, fascism was capitalism in crisis mode. When the usual mechanisms of profit-making (markets, free trade, colonial looting) hit a wall, the ruling class turned to brute force. Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy industrialized repression, merging corporate monopolies with the state and using nationalism as an ideological glue.

Fast forward to today, and the logic remains the same—but instead of brownshirts, we have AI-driven thought policing, and instead of Mussolini’s blackshirts, we have Wall Street financiers and Silicon Valley billionaires whispering sweet nothings into the ears of politicians. The goal is still to crush labor, reassert monopoly control, and protect capital from the chaos it creates.

Exhibit A:

Nazi Germany had IBM tracking Jewish populations for extermination. Today, ICE uses Palantir software to hunt migrants.

Mussolini’s Italy had corporate-state partnerships. Today, Amazon receives billions in federal contracts while automating worker exploitation through AI surveillance.

The Gestapo had informants. Today, Facebook’s algorithm does the snitching.


Technofascism isn’t coming—it’s here. It’s just wearing a hoodie instead of a uniform.

III. The Cowboys, Yankees, and Digerati: How the Ruling Class Rewired Imperialism

1. Cowboy Capital: The Fossil-Fueled Death Drive

Cowboy Capitalists are the old-school imperialists—the ExxonMobil execs, the defense contractors, the military-industrial grifters. Their power comes from oil, war, and brute force. They don’t do subtlety.

Hard Numbers:

The U.S. military burns through 100 million barrels of oil a year, making it one of the biggest polluters on the planet.

Sanctions on Venezuela and Iran aren’t about “human rights.” They’re about keeping the Global South energy-dependent on U.S. allies.


2. Yankee Capital: The Financial Oligarchy in the Shadows

Yankee Capitalists run the show from Wall Street. They don’t fire missiles; they crash economies. Their weapons are hedge funds, debt traps, and central bank manipulations. They make money off instability, ensuring that governments remain disciplined (i.e., subservient to capital).

Exhibit B:

BlackRock and Vanguard control over 90% of the S&P 500, meaning they effectively own the economy.

The 2023 bank collapse was “solved” through closed-door meetings between Treasury officials and BlackRock—because democracy works best when billionaires make the decisions.

3. Digerati Capital: The Algorithmic Aristocracy

Then there’s the new kid on the block: the Digerati. These are the Silicon Valley oligarchs who control information, automate labor, and monitor dissent. Unlike the Cowboys or Yankees, they don’t extract resources or manipulate markets. They own the infrastructure that dictates what’s real and what isn’t.

Hard Numbers:

Microsoft’s AI models are now used in Pentagon war simulations.

Amazon’s warehouses run on AI that tracks and fires workers in real-time—turning human labor into machine logic.

Google and Facebook control over 50% of U.S. digital advertising, meaning they decide what information circulates.


Together, these three factions aren’t just maintaining U.S. hegemony—they’re reformatting capitalism itself.

IV. Technofascism and the New Imperial Order

1. The U.S. Is Losing Its Grip—So It’s Rewriting the Rules

The problem for the U.S. ruling class is that the world isn’t playing along anymore. China’s Belt and Road Initiative is challenging U.S. economic dominance. The dollar’s supremacy is fading. The old tools of control—military interventions, IMF debt traps—aren’t working like they used to.

Hard Numbers:

China has invested over $1 trillion in infrastructure projects, bypassing U.S. financial control.

BRICS nations are stockpiling gold and reducing dependency on the dollar, slowly dismantling U.S. economic coercion.


2. When Markets Fail, Algorithms Step In

So how does the U.S. maintain control? By automating it. Technofascism is the answer to a world that no longer passively accepts U.S. dominance. If you can’t control nations through war, you control their digital infrastructure. If you can’t exploit labor directly, you build a system where dissent is impossible.

Real-World Examples:

AI automation will eliminate 300 million jobs globally by 2030, concentrating capital in fewer hands.

OpenAI, despite employing fewer than 1,000 people, is on track for $100 billion in revenue—a perfect example of how technofascism creates wealth without workers.

The goal isn’t just profit. It’s domination.

V. What’s to Be Done?

Technofascism thrives on passivity. It doesn’t need stormtroopers or gulags—it just needs people to scroll, consume, and comply. But like all forms of capitalist control, it isn’t invincible.

How We Fight Back:

Tech Sovereignty: Countries like China and Russia are already pushing back against U.S. tech monopolization by developing independent AI and digital finance systems.

Decentralization: Encrypted platforms like Matrix and Signal prove that Big Tech’s grip on communication isn’t absolute.

Direct Action: Amazon workers are already fighting back against AI-driven exploitation. Digital surveillance can be subverted through organized resistance.

Capitalism isn’t evolving—it’s decaying. Technofascism is just the ruling class’s latest scheme to maintain its grip on power. But as history has shown, no empire lasts forever. The question isn’t whether this system will collapse—the question is whether we’ll be ready when it does.

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