Why we must reject the illusory consolations of technology and choose
revolution over fascism.
We are living in apocalyptic times. In Capital Hates Everyone, famed
sociologist Maurice Lazzarato points to a stark choice emerging from the
magma of today's world events: fascism or revolution. Fascism now drives
the course of democracies as they grow less and less liberal and
increasingly subject to the law of capital. Since the 1970s, Lazzarato
writes, capital has entered a logic of war. It has become, by the power
conferred on it by financialization, a political force intent on
destruction. Lazzarato urges us to reject the illusory consolations of a
technology-abetted "new" kind of capitalism and choose revolution over
fascism.