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Posted byzhemaoin/reads-Mar 28 at 11:36 AM

This Political Theorist Predicted the Rise of Trumpism. His Name Was Hunter S. Thompson.

This Political Theorist Predicted the Rise of Trumpism. His Name Was Hunter S. Thompson.

In late March, Donald Trump opened a rally in Wisconsin by mocking the state's governor, Scott Walker, who had just endorsed his Republican opponent, Ted Cruz. "He came in on his Harley," Trump said of Walker, "but he doesn't look like a motorcycle guy.

thenation.com
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  • SleepymachineMar 28 at 12:39 PM

    That’s what I find creepy about the tech world. Tech was used to degrade people, and the people I know in the tech world still reflect the sort of engineer who works with managers to do it:

    Furthermore, if you look at the kind of automation that was developed, you see precisely what workers in the early labor movement were complaining about: being turned into mindless tools of production. I mean, automation could have been designed in such a way as to use the skills of skilled machinists and to eliminate management—there’s nothing inherent in automation that says it can’t be used that way. But it wasn’t, believe me; it was used in exactly the opposite way. Automation was designed through the state system to demean and degrade people—to de-skill workers and increase managerial control.

    And again, that had nothing to do with the market, and it had nothing to do with the nature of the technology: it had to do with straight power interests. So the kind of automation that was developed in places like the M.I.T. Engineering Department was very carefully designed so that it would create interchangeable workers and enhance managerial control—and that was not for economic reasons. I mean, study after study, including by management firms like Arthur D. Little and so on, show that managers have selected automation even when it cuts back on profits—just because it gives them more control over their workforce.

    — Chomsky, “Understanding Power”

  • zhemaoMar 28 at 11:40 AMΔ

    A friend of mine posted this on Facebook and I thought it would be good to share. I think it has a rather interesting take on the rise of Trumpism. That it is primarily retaliatory and not populist, per se. It at least makes more sense than working-class rural voters electing a New York City billionaire because they actually think he'll represent their interests.

    Also, I love that it specifically calls out the Berkeley, CA types, since I'm literally one of them. Nicely skewered.

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