Actual Control

As the rule of capital in the digital age becomes increasingly concealed, and as life dimensions such as education, health, and time have all been reduced to arenas of value extraction, this work, rooted in Marxist political economy, breaks free from the traditional analytical framework centered on "ownership of means of production" and puts forward a groundbreaking core thesis—contemporary capital has completed an…

Zhang Haoxiang presents a critical political economy analysis of how capitalism has evolved in the digital age and deepened its control over people’s lives. It argues that the essence of modern domination lies in how digital capital now colonises not only production but the full life process of workers, shaping education, work and daily existence. And it outlines a program for emancipation that includes both…