The imperialist state used to offer wages and citizenship in exchange for loyalty and silence. Now it offers nothing but control. You don’t get a pension; you get a payment app. You don’t get housing; you get a credit check. You don’t get health care; you get a biometric profile sold to Pfizer and Palantir. And when you protest, you don’t face a cop—you face a data model that predicted your rebellion six weeks ago and flagged you for preemptive suppression. This is not dystopian fiction. This is how the empire governs its own periphery: Black neighborhoods, Indigenous territories, poor white towns, immigrant enclaves. It is counterinsurgency on the domestic front. It is the internal colony, digitized and automated.
And it doesn’t stop with the ghettos. As the capitalist core consumes itself, the working class of the Global North—especially its youth—is being inducted into a new kind of managed decline. Gig work, medical debt, algorithmic bosses, militarized campuses, and endless content pipelines to pacify political consciousness. Technofascism doesn’t just repress—it replaces. It replaces class struggle with personal branding. It replaces education with STEM job funnels. It replaces social life with platforms, unions with apps, politics with metrics. And all of it is enforced not just by the state, but by capital itself—tech capital, defense capital, and financial capital fused into a single command structure.