This article documents a textbook case of the capitalist class wielding its economic power to shape political outcomes directly in its favor. California's proposed billionaire tax—a modest 5% one-time levy on assets exceeding $1 billion to fund education, healthcare, and food assistance—has...
The UK Competition and Markets Authority's agreement with Apple and Google reveals the fundamental contradiction at the heart of capitalist state regulation: the state's structural dependence on capital accumulation limits its capacity to meaningfully constrain that same capital. Despite formally...
Sam Altman's OpenAI represents a crystallization of late-stage capitalist accumulation dynamics, where massive resource extraction—energy consumption exceeding entire European nations, $1.4 trillion in datacenter investment—is justified through utopian promises of solving climate change and...