Catalyst, Spring 2025
Cédric Durand and Yanis Varoufakis have recently argued that the capitalist mode of production is being replaced by a more exploitative and less productive mode of production that they call techno-feudalism. But their case depends on implausible claims about the constitution of classes, the status of online platform users, and the sources of rent extraction. Capitalism is alive and well.
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