accuse your opponent of monopoly power -> use that accusation to justify creating actual monopoly power -> dress the new monopoly in democratic legitimacy language -> achieve the centralisation you accused them of

thats Zuboff’s move in the book, ‘Surveillance Capitalism’ - which completely fails to point the finger at the central bank empire.

i know, i know - do try to appear as shocked as i.

https://escapekey.substack.com/p/surveillance-capitalism

Zuboff, a harvard professor, writes hundreds of pages about surveillance, power, and the threat to democracy — invoking polanyi, arendt, durkheim, the new deal — and never once mentions the BIS.

she names Google's chief economist, but she doesn't name the Bank for International Settlements

she celebrates the Spanish Data Protection Agency ordering Google to de-link search results, but she doesn't mention that FATF can exclude entire nations from the global financial system through grey-listing

she calls for new public institutions to govern information, yet the public institutions that already govern financial information globally, without democratic accountability — she cannot see

shocked! absolutely shocked!

re-reading this suddenly snaps me to Dan Shefet

(setting aside the overly dramatic and emotional framing)

https://escapekey.substack.com/p/the-ethical-approach?utm_source=publication-search

if Zuboff’s concern were actually surveillance and control, central bank digital currencies would be chapter one

but… she’s never criticised CBDCs.

golly, it’s another one of them coincidences

another fraud working for central bankers

her book was published in 2019, and she hasn’t uttered a word on CBDCs, neither in that book, nor since then.

what an extraordinary coincidence!

i had no idea this would come in handy this soon

https://t.me/escapekey/2298

her solutions, in essence, are ‘new digital institutions’, ‘democratic governance of the digital’, ‘digital’, ‘digital’…

never ‘preserve cash’, ‘opt out’, ‘refuse digital id’

no, she’s essentially advocating you accept your place in the AI-run (Genesis Mission) digital empire of tomorrow

that’s ‘democratic’ to her central bank funders

foreign nations are going to be in jail?

https://t.me/disclosetv/19289

she’s a Neo-Marxist pretending she’s not.

thank you for that, you fraud.

that wouldn’t happen to be lenin’s accounting and control, now would it?

book’s over here ftr

https://archive.org/details/UtopianThoughtInTheWesternWorld/

ok the book doesnt actually explain i can only assume it’s accounting and control, fits the bill

https://archive.org/details/UtopianThoughtInTheWesternWorld/page/20/mode/2up?q=applied+utopistics

and she follows up with classic projection.

no, the capitalists will arrive with a pragmatic product, not ‘in absence of an explicit and contestable theory’

she’s describing her own brand of grossly dishonest marxism

oh you mean ‘cosmopolitan democracy’?

https://escapekey.substack.com/p/cosmopolitan-democracy?utm_source=publication-search

right, as per f’in usual, all i see is opaque phrasing.

hey Gemini, is “applied utopistics Lenin’s Accounting and Control”

of course it bloody is.

wait, im now at page 322 of her ‘book’ and it’s still just criticism of ‘surveillance capitalism’

just like Marx!

“It's like looking through the menu at a Scottish restaurant: not much in it and nothing you want”