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Is Elon Musk's "tech-bro Maoism" really something new? Not at all – and it's always disastrous

Source: salon.com salon.com
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During Donald Trump’s first term as president, Steve Bannon provided the administration’s MAGA ideological blueprint. His reactionary brand of “America First” nationalism entailed stoking populist skepticism of technological progress, and centering American interests ahead of what he called the emerging “globalist technocracy.” In an ironic twist, now the South African-born Silicon Valley tech billionaire Elon Musk — perhaps the purest embodiment of that globalist technocracy — has taken up MAGA’s ideological reins in the second Trump administration. While the MAGA faithful try to square the circles of nationalist-globalism and billionaire-populism, we all struggle to understand Musk’s techno-futuristic ideology, which has…

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