What Brazil’s Showdown With Elon Musk Was Really About
Brazil’s battle with Elon Musk is just the tip of the iceberg in the struggle between Big Tech and sovereign nations for control of our digital future.
6 Articles by: Cédric Durand
Cédric Durand is an associate professor of political economy at the University of Geneva. He has recently published How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-Feudalism: The Making of the Digital Economy.
The Rise of Big Tech Is Generating Economic Stagnation
Silicon Valley hype presented the digital economy as a source of dynamic growth as well as a liberating force for workers. In reality, digital technology is facilitating brutal forms of exploitation while productivity and growth are slowing down.
Neoliberalism Has Finally Reached the End of the Road
The neoliberal economic model has foundered and can no longer generate growth. Governments will be forced to change their approach to economic management, giving rise to more promising conditions for struggle by workers after a generation of retreat.
A Movement With a Future
The gilets jaunes movement has presented a vision of France beyond Emmanuel Macron’s neoliberalism. Anticapitalists have to push it even further.
The Return of the Left
Mélenchon’s election campaign has galvanized the Left by doing what Hamon couldn’t — making a clean break with the political center.
The End of Europe
The crisis in Greece is part of a larger disintegration of the European project.