Alex Williams and Jeremy Gilbert, "Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back)" (Verso, 2022)
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The Strategic Implications of Passive Consent for the Broad Left
A lot of the effects of e platforms, e, you kind of locate in the domain of passive consent. I would say we don't really know what the implications of our reliance on platforms is going to be. There's a number of ways that could go. It could be that as soon as there's any real contestation over certain kinds of class relations in the relatively near future, then they will just use their power to freeze out any kind of anti capitalist forces. But i sort of doubt things are going to come to that kind of a head any time soon. The most pressing political problem right now, globil is climate change. That for and so if you want an example of
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