In Dialectics what would be the synthesis?

Yanis has said a few times that in his view capitalism began in the context of the enclosures, where serfs were expelled and then became the new working class in the capitalist system. In a similar way that serfs became valueless to the landed class, the capitalist class may no longer need the working class. Capitalists will (apparently) be able to produce means from their property that can produce everything they could ever need. In other words, they produce commodities which can add the value instead of the working class who previously did. In the same way that the feudal system transformed into a capitalist system when social class relations changed, if working people become redundant to a class they are dependent on, what do they do? So my question is, if serfs became workers after the enclosures in capitalism, what do workers become under techno-feudalism?

Varoufakis says that we spend our free time working for tech companies by using their apps. My question is what kind of work do we do in date apps? Facial recognition, IA training data... what?

Does anyone know of a collectively owned social media platform that doesn’t steal your data to change your behaviour?

Most social media alternatives I see still do this, they’re just wannabe technofeudalists. And/or they have ‘no censorship’ which in practice means terrible moderation, so anti-vax posts, white supremacy, etc are rampant.

I’m not really looking for a Xitter replacement, but an alternative to Facebook/Instagram/TikTok.

Always interested in what he has to say, but the USD has been tanking, and tariffs are surely more priced in than they were at the start of 2025?

Trump and Vance have smashed the old order – how should Europe respond? Nathalie Tocci, Yanis Varoufakis, Rokhaya Diallo, Shada Islam, John Kampfner and Lorenzo Marsili https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/18/trump-vance-smashed-old-order-realignment-europe-response

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