Hostile Takeover - Tech Capital & the Coup of the US Government, pt. 2: Endgames & Ideologies, with Matthew N. Lyons & Becca Lewis
Youtube video description:
CPE is hosting a three-part series on tech capital and the administrative coup of the US government.
Hostile Takeover: Tech Capital and the Coup of the US Government will feature a series of conversations among subject matter experts, strategists, and organizers trying to make sense of how and why the forces of capital—led by billionaire tech barons—are so determined to seize the administrative state and what its evisceration means for working-class communities in the near and long-term.
In our second conversation in the series, Part 2: Endgames and Ideologies, we’ll identify the roots of far right ideologies among tech capital; how those ideological currents engage with those among the MAGA coalition; and whether and how the endgames of tech capital align or come into tension with the broader far right projects.
Speakers:
Becca Lewis is a postdoctoral researcher at the Stanford University Department of Communication. Her research tracks the rise of reactionary politics in Silicon Valley and online. In 2022, she served as an expert witness on the topic of disinformation in the defamation lawsuit brought against Alex Jones by the parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim. She has been published in academic journals including New Media & Society, Social Media + Society, and American Behavioral Scientist.
READ Becca’s article on technofascism in The Guardian here.
Matthew N. Lyons has been writing about right-wing politics for over 30 years. He is co-editor of Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism (2024) and author of Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right's Challenge to State and Empire (2018). He writes regularly for the radical antifascist website Three Way Fight, and his work has also appeared in a number of other leftist and mainstream publications.
READ Matthew’s piece The DOGE and The Neoreactionaries in Three-Way Fight here.
