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The trend where R >G begаn in Piketty’s аccоunt in the 1980s. Fоr mаny ecоnomists, this timeline follows the rise of neoliberalism, the belief that government regulation should be minimal, taxes should be low, and the market should be given free reign in society. Closely tied to the administration President Reagan in the United States and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, neoliberalism as implemented by these figures did much to dismantle the welfare states that had developed after World War II. In one sense, it is easy to see how Lazarus is a tale of R > G, or neoliberalism run amok.   At the same time, the aristocratic quality of the 16 families and the fact that the world has a limited number of serfs recalls the medieval system of feudalism. The existence of feudalism is something of a contested topic for medieval scholars. Nevertheless, feudalism describes a social system of social obligation. Vassals—nobles, dukes, and the aristocracy more generally—owed loyalty and military service to the monarch in exchange for the usage of land. In turn, peasants owed service to the vassals. In essence, the vassals were allowed to live on the land in exchange for service (sometimes labor, sometimes military) and in rents, usually paid in the form of the excess of harvest.  While markets existed in feudal systems, this was not a market-based economy as would emerge under capitalism. Instead, the primary economic relationship was one of rent exploitation. Peasants owed very little and rented their land from their masters.   One way to look at the social relations of Lazarus is as pure fantasy, an extrapolation of what wealth inequality would look like if taken to its logical extreme. If only sixteen families owned most of the world’s capital, would they not act like kings and queens? Maybe.   However, during the publication of Lazarus, economists and social scientists began to speak of neofeudalism or technofeudalism. The most famous of these analyses comes from the former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis. In his book Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism (2024), Varoufakis argues that we are no longer experiencing capitalism. Instead, we have a feudal system of government and property organization in which economic power is concentrated in a few technological companies. Think Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Tesla, and OpenAI. What killed capitalism? According to Varoufakis it was capital itself. Capital became so concentrated, and monopolies so large that capitalism no longer really happened in markets or through competition. Instead, we returned to a feudal order because companies like Amazon chiefly earned their income from charging rents. You may have noticed how hard it is to buy things in the digital realm. Do you buy your music, or do you rent access to it? Do you buy your eBooks, or do you technically rent a license to them? Do you own your copy of Microsoft Word, or do you license it?   As we have seen in our description of the Barretts above, clearly exploitative rents are key to the Carlyle regime.   Q: What caused technofeudalism?

Welcоme tо week 15! This is оur penultimаte week of the semester аnd the lаst week of our third unit. Last week, we moved from the 19th-century to the Middle Ages to explore the Land of Cockaigne and its contemporary resonances. In this week, we will be completing Greg Rucka and Michael Lark’s Lazarus vol. 1. That this follows our discussion of the medieval and the 19th-century is more than appropriate. The comic series Lazarus first published in 2013 appeared more or less at the same time as French economist Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty First Century (2013), a text that argued that inequality was returning to levels in the 19th-century. Furthermore, Lazarus anticipates a term that began to gain currency around 2020 and is still hotly debated, neofeudalism or technofeudalism. As you continue to read Lazarus, I want you to keep both Piketty’s ideas and the idea of neofedualism in mind, and we will read about them shortly.    Before discussing the importance of Lazarus’s historical context, I want to provide an overview of the series. Our assigned volume collects the first two storylines from the series “The Family” and “The Lift.” In the first volume, we are introduced to the world of Lazarus. The family of the title, the Carlyles, rule the Western portion of the United States in a feudal state. Three castes structure society: family members, who rule as tyrants, serfs, who directly serve the family’s interests, and waste, who live in destitution and are kept alive as a halfhearted duty by the family. While the destruction of the USA and other nation states has never been fully explored in the series, the current world is run by fifteen other families in similar arrangements. Malcolm Carlyle is the patriarch and founder of the family dynasty. A brilliant scientist and CEO, Carlyle made his wealth with his development of the longevity protocols, which taken to extremes, have significantly extended his life and the lives of his children while also retarding the effects of age. The protocols find their most extreme application in the development of the family’s protector, its Lazarus, Forever Carlyle. Each ruling family has its own Lazarus, and they have all been technologically augmented to protect their family and run military operations. Forever Carlyle has been trained to be a warrior since infancy and has had her physical abilities artificially enhanced through gene and hormone therapy. The name Lazarus is apt because although she cannot be resurrected like her biblical namesake, she does have the ability to heal and recover at a superhuman rate. As the story opens, we find the Carlyle family in disarray as Jonah and Johanna Carlyle, Malcolm’s younger children, are plotting a coup against their father. At the same time, Forever is beginning to suspect that the family’s interests are immoral even as she continues to seek love and affection from her family.   In the second storyline, “The Lift,” the narrative frame widens to include those designated waste. While Forever’s story does not drop away, Rucka and Lark introduce the Barrett family. Based in Musselshell CDP, Montana, the Barretts are devastated when a storm destroys their farm and home. A family administrator tells the Barretts that the Carlyle family will help them to rebuild; however, they will have to pay the Carlyle more money to use the land they live on. Already subject to intense and exploitative rents, the Barretts give up their farm, their land, and their way of life. Instead, they opt to travel to Denver by foot and by horse, with the hope of being lifted to service for the family. In this way, “waste” hopes to be recycled into “serfs.” In expanding the narrative scope in this way, Rucka and Lark illustrate what it is like to live in this world, and the limited range of choices, both ethical and financial, that are available to folks.    Q: What would Marx and Engels have to say about this fiction? Dystopian visions are often intended to be warnings about the present and what they could be in the future. Does this fiction seem plausible, not so much in its bioengineering—though Rucka did research on these topics—but in terms of the type of world we might create?