It is simply not true that radical leftists took over all major institutions and use them to crush the right, and mainstream figures should stop being afraid to say so
Anti-intellectualism never works because you are left with stupid people with persecution complexes running things. And they are going to do stupid stuff.
The trouble is that they can really wreck a society in the process.
Naw, dawg. There's a an insane food chain at work here, and these people know it.
If you hear the term "techno-feudalism" thrown around a lot lately, this is why. The "haves" are now the people who control the IP, that generates the wealth for a select few, that is then redistributed to the people who work for them, and then down to the areas they live and work in. Feudalism used to be abput resources, but now it's been so abstracted away, it's just about money. These fuckers saw this coming two decades ago, and the world wasn't ready because we hadn't seen anything like this since the Roman era.
Enter, techno-fascists. "I made this thing, so feel lucky you have it." Types. The Musks, the Bezos', the Gates'...etc. They got in early, and are now spending all their maxima of capital to make you rent bullshit you never thought you even needed. Now we live in a world where you can't live without and be relevant. They made this happen.
Idk I feel like it's pretty dumb itself to not just call them fascists.
Like, sure, you're going to sideswipe some well meaning "libertarians" with it but fuck 'em. Shouldn't have stolen "libertarian" from the anarchists, you corporate bootlickers.
I don't think this weird theory of theirs is all that new. They've been saying this kind of thing for decades - see their feelings about "cultural Marxism", for instance.