Capitalism Is Rotting from the Inside Out
The empire is falling. Not with fireworks or finality—but in slow motion, dragging the world down with it. The dreams sold after World War II—democracy, prosperity and liberty—have curdled into surveillance, austerity and endless war. The U.S., bloated on conquest, finds itself governing not through vision but through brute force and algorithmic fear.
To explain the system that is emerging now, we cannot just recycle terms from the past. This is not your grandfather’s fascism. It is something newer, slicker and far more dangerous. We call it technofascism: a merger of Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and the security state. And its global twin? Hyper-imperialism—a desperate, high-tech war machine scrambling to hold together a world that is slipping from its grasp.
Part I: Technofascism—Capitalism with a Digital Jackboot
Let’s be clear. Technofascism did not fall from the sky. It is the outcome of a system that has been in freefall since the 1970s, when profits dropped, factories closed, and the American Dream was packed up and sold offshore. The U.S. ruling class responded in the only way it knows how: by building a digital prison.
Welcome to the Surveillance State
After 9/11, the U.S. did not just go to war abroad—it went to war at home. Police got tanks. NSA got carte blanche. Your phone became a snitch. And behind the scenes? The Pentagon, the CIA and DARPA were feeding money into tech startups that would one day become Google, Facebook, Amazon and Palantir.
These are not just companies. They are nodes of control. They manage your data, your work, your moods—and sell the intel to cops and spooks. In this new order, rebellion is not crushed with boots—it is flagged by an algorithm.
Racial Capitalism, Updated for the Cloud
Technofascism did not erase the color line—it digitized it. Black, Indigenous, migrant and poor folks live in zones of predictive policing, digital probation, facial recognition and drone surveillance. It is colonialism in high definition.
Meanwhile, landlords get eviction algorithms. Schools get “threat assessment” software. Hospitals get AI triage. In the name of “efficiency,” the state decides who eats, who sleeps, who dies.
Crisis Is the Model
The whole thing runs on breakdown. Uprisings? Smothered with psy-ops and predictive analytics. Elections? Corroded by disinformation and voter suppression. Media? Fragmented, throttled and flooded with noise. This system does not govern with consent. It governs with crisis—and capitalizes on the chaos.
Part II: Hyper-Imperialism—Globalizing the Digital Empire
If technofascism is how they run the U.S., hyper-imperialism is how they run the world. The U.S. still commands the planet—not because of its moral superiority but because it controls the pipelines of finance, information and death.
BlackRock Is the New State
Let’s name names. BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street—these giants do not just own stocks. They own the economy. They own the war machine. They own the government. Together they manage over $20 trillion, holding stakes in everything from missiles to milk.
And they do not need to run governments. They are the government. Through the dollar system, they can starve a country without firing a shot. That is what sanctions are. Economic siege warfare.
Your Data, Their Empire
Big Tech does not just serve the U.S. state—it is the U.S. state in cybernetic form. Palantir helps ICE hunt migrants. Microsoft runs the Pentagon’s cloud. Facebook moderates discourse to align with State Department goals. Surveillance tech is exported like wheat, used by allies and dictators alike to crush dissent.
War Without End (or Accountability)
Gone are the days of boots on the ground. Now it is drones in the sky, mercenaries on contract, and proxy wars that never end. Yemen, Ukraine, Syria, Haiti—it is a carousel of destruction run by men in suits and algorithms in bunkers.
Psychological warfare is part of the package. Twitter files, fake NGOs, influence ops—the goal is not truth, it is control.
Part III: Fighting Back—Revolution in the Age of the Algorithm
Let’s not get it twisted. This system looks powerful—but it is scared. It is built on sand. And its contradictions are sharpening: ecological breakdown, internal decay, global revolt. What we need now is not another petition. It is a revolutionary recalibration.
Reform Is a Trap
We have been here before. Occupy was pacified. Bernie was buried. BLM was commodified. Every time we get close to rupture, they send in NGOs, algorithms, or culture wars to keep us fighting shadows.
There is no ballot box path out of technofascism. It eats electoral politics for breakfast.
Revolutionary Recalibration Starts Now
If they are recalibrating imperialism, we have got to recalibrate revolution. That means:
- Rebuilding organizations grounded in discipline, clarity and anti-colonial praxis;
- Creating dual power: mutual aid, security networks, political education and autonomous tech; and
- Fighting from the base: with the colonized, the working class, the lumpen, the migrants.
Multipolarity Means Solidarity
The Global South is rising. Gaza resists. Haiti burns. Niger defies. Chiapas builds. The old world trembles. We need a 21st-century Tricontinentalism: a rebel internet of shared tactics, protected infrastructure, and revolutionary exchange.
Our job in the belly of the beast is simple: Sabotage the empire from within, link arms with those it seeks to crush.
The Future Ain’t Written Yet
They want you to think it is over. That the algorithm is God. That resistance is futile. But history tells another story: The oppressed never stop fighting. The future is not a code. It is a struggle.
So organize. Study. Build. Fight. And remember: Technofascism might run the servers—but the people still run the streets.
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About the Author
Prince Kapone is a revolutionary writer, former political prisoner, and founder of Weaponized Information, a radical media project dedicated to exposing empire and organizing for socialism.
Drawing on Marxism, anti-colonial struggle, and his own lived experience inside the U.S. carceral system, Kapone developed the theory of technofascism to explain the fusion of monopoly capital, Big Tech, and state power in today’s crisis of imperialism.
Prince can be reached at kapone.weaponizedinormation@gmail.com
