Because y’all shouldn’t fall for this moralistic and anachronistic nonsense. The rentier bourgeoisie controls the servers and data centres (vulgarly called “cloud”) like they did before with the railways, the shipping infrastructure, the airlines, energy, the production and redistribution of oil and gasoline, and even other forms of communications infrastructure.
Reframing the rentier bourgeoisie as some new unique stage of development beyond capitalism (and smuggling in liberal moralisms about “fiefdoms” and “feudal lords”) is just yet another European attempt at reframing the current regressive nature of capitalism as not-capitalism in order to defend the status quo as a “democracy” at risk.
And this author doesn’t even get into Imperialism in his critique.
I don’t have my laptop with me right now or else I would have made that meme about the music which would have gone something like:
liberal on one side can pick between: fascism, neo-fascism, social democracy, anarcho capitalism, libertarianism, neo-feudalism, corporatism
socialist on other side
it’s all capitalism
God and I want the other direction, where the leftist is picking between flavors of socialism, anarchism, and communism and the normies just see “liberal”