Anarchism

There is a—much worse—far right version of transhumanism. It has been promoted by a sector of the capitalist class. This is the Silicon Valley “tech bros,” leaders of the “billionaire class,” and its well-paid minions.

In this vision, we will have nannites in our blood and computers surgically placed in our heads, so we can take orders from the Master Computer. A Marxist economist explains, “Transhumanism asserts that humans can transcend existing biological limitations with the aid of technology to achieve indefinitely long life-spans and augmented cognitive abilities….AGI [Artificial General Intelligence] [is] generating such rapid and unprecedented technological advances that there will be a fundamental rupture in human history….Humans will eventually upload their consciousness to robots, creating self-improving super beings that will, in great numbers, establish themselves throughout the universe.” (Hart-Landsberg 2026; p. 115)

This is an image of totally alienated humans, with machines like people and people turned into machines. It imagines the abolition of the working class. This might be a humorous caricature of modern capitalism—or an imaginative piece of science fiction—if leading billionaires did not take it so seriously.