Palantir and Fascism
Accelerationist CEOs and the tech-state-corporate fusion Previously published on LinkedIn April 29, 2026 Palantir’s 22-point manifesto is being debated as either technofascism or corporate cringe. Both readings miss what the document actually does. Is it fascist? Yes, on Griffin’s palingenetic criterion, Paxton’s mobilizing-passions frame, and most of Eco’s Ur-Fascism checklist. Axis rehabilitation is an unusually explicit tell. The mass-movement base and the Führerprinzip are absent, which is why technofascism, or neoreactionary techno-imperialism, tracks better than 1933 analogies. The intellectual lineage clearly runs Schmitt to Strauss to Thiel to Yarvin. ...