Let’s not mistake the silence of an algorithm for peace. What John Bellamy Foster calls “neofascism” is indeed the shedding of liberal illusion by the U.S. ruling class. But what we face is not just the reappearance of fascism—it is its reprogramming. Technofascism is the name for this update: a new operating system for the settler empire, where monopoly finance capital, digital infrastructure, and colonial violence converge to secure white power and capitalist survival.
But technofascism is not just predictive policing and social media censorship. That’s only the interface. Behind the touchscreen lies the trigger. Behind the firewall, the firing squad. Technofascism is not a retreat from violence—it is its optimization. Its entire architecture—from data analytics to biometric tracking—exists to increase the efficiency, precision, and scale of state-sanctioned force.
In other words: technofascism is not what replaces the boot. It is what guides the boot to your door.
A Colonial Operating System, Upgraded for War
The United States was never founded on liberty. It was founded on land theft, slave labor, and extermination. The colonial contradiction—between settler domination and the resistance of the colonized—is not a historical backdrop. It is the driving engine of the state. And technofascism is the latest stage in that counterinsurgency war.
Yes, it includes surveillance. But the point of surveillance is targeting.
Yes, it includes censorship. But the purpose of censorship is dehumanization, the first step toward legitimized violence.
Yes, it includes predictive policing. But the outcome of prediction is preemptive strikes—on protesters, migrants, prisoners, or occupied peoples abroad.
Technofascism is the coordination layer of modern warfare—an infrastructure of conquest that links Silicon Valley to Fort Benning, the NSA to Border Patrol, Palantir to the NYPD, and Google to Gaza. It is the digital nervous system of imperial violence, organized to act faster, strike harder, and disappear accountability.
Trump 2.0 and the Realignment of Settler Power
Trump 2.0 isn’t a fluke. It’s a system update. The white ruling class—fragmented between the Yankees (finance technocrats), Cowboys (fossil-fueled settler revanchists), and Digerati (data-capital overlords)—have now coalesced. Their contradictions haven’t vanished, but they’ve agreed on the priority: survival of the settler empire.
But here’s the twist: even as Trump 2.0 sells “America First” fantasies to the settler masses, the colonial ruling class is preparing to turn on them. The white working class and eroding petty bourgeoisie—the same social base that once reaped the benefits of empire—are now increasingly expendable.
Their jobs are gone, their communities hollowed out, their privileges thinning by the day. And while Trump promises to bring it all back, the ruling class is building a system to control them, not uplift them. Surveillance isn’t just for the ghetto anymore. Militarized policing isn’t just for the border or the rez. The boot is being reoriented inward, toward the very people who cheered it on.
Many will realize—some too late—that Trump was a demagogue, not a savior. That “taking back America” meant giving the Digerati more power, the bankers more capital, and the cops more weapons. That the same system that kept them above the colonized is now coming for them too.
Infrastructure for Domestic and Global Counterinsurgency
Everything about technofascism is counterinsurgency—from data extraction to logistics planning. It is built to manage a domestic population increasingly ungovernable by persuasion alone. The colonized, the exploited, the global proletariat—these are the enemies the system was designed to surveil, contain, and if necessary, eliminate.
Domestically, this means AI surveillance in Black neighborhoods, predictive policing of Indigenous resistance, immigration software that flags “threats” for ICE raids, and facial recognition tech deployed at labor strikes and student walkouts.
And yes—it now means targeting white dissidents, laid-off workers, rural debtors, and the downwardly mobile settler base who may begin to question not just Trump, but the entire imperial system they once benefited from. What we are witnessing is the beginning of ruling-class abandonment of its own social base.
Internationally, this means drone strikes coordinated by data harvested from Silicon Valley servers. It means algorithmic modeling of “rebel behavior” in Sudan. It means “smart borders” in Europe, backed by U.S. military contracts. It means propaganda ops flooding the Global South, not just to win hearts and minds—but to neutralize them.
This is the militarization of data, the algorithmic management of empire, and the integration of digital infrastructure into the hardware of war.
No Velvet Glove Without an Iron Fist
Technofascism is not a bloodless coup by data scientists. It is the rearmament of the U.S. settler state, carried out with code, capital, and colonial arrogance. It is predictive control in service of material domination. It is AI built to preempt rebellion. It is surveillance built to make war more efficient. It is policing designed not to serve but to suppress. And it is backed—always—by the vigilante with a gun, the prison guard with a baton, the drone pilot with a joystick, and the militia with a manifesto.
Technofascism is not the abandonment of violence. It is its recalibration.
And if we are to fight it, we must understand it—not just as a policy shift or a technological change, but as the continuation of colonial war and class war by digital and material means. The velvet glove may whisper through code and screens, but the iron fist still smashes through doors, borders, and skulls.
The white ruling class has recalibrated its enemy list. The colonized remain target number one. But in this stage of crisis, sections of the white working class are no longer immune. They are being surveilled, betrayed, and fed into the machine like everyone else. Not because the ruling class wants racial justice—but because they’re running out of empire to share.
This is not simply a battle of ideas. It is a battle of infrastructure. And we fight it with organization, with memory, and with revolutionary clarity.
Because we cannot tweet our way out of this. We cannot log off from empire. And no amount of screen time will save us from a regime that is already uploading the coordinates of its next target.
If we do not organize, they will optimize our annihilation.
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