Technology, Class, and the Bridge We Must Not Skip: Why Ethnosocialism Is the Necessary Passage Between Class Society and a Truly Classless Future
BY: OMOLAJA MAKINEE
We are entering an age in which political systems increasingly outsource legitimacy to machines. Algorithms adjudicate creditworthiness. Platforms regulate speech. “Smart” systems allocate resources, police borders, optimise labour, and model social behaviour. Decision-making is progressively framed as technical rather than moral, computational rather than deliberative, neutral rather than political.
This is an era in which governance migrates from human institutions into data systems that claim objectivity while remaining structurally unaccountable.
At first glance, this appears to be progress: efficiency without bias, automation without corruption, intelligence without ideology. Yet beneath this veneer lies a profound contradiction. The societies attempting to automate governance today are class-based societies, and class-based societies cannot produce neutral machines. They can only reproduce class power in code.
The result is not liberation, but algorithmic domination.
1. Algorithmic Governance as Premature Classlessness
In its purest theoretical form, a society governed entirely by technology presupposes classlessness. For machines to govern equitably, there must be:
- No class ownership of infrastructure,
- No asymmetry in access to data,
- No elite control over training models,
- No monetised incentives shaping algorithmic outcomes.
Technology-governed society is therefore post-class by definition.
Yet contemporary political systems are attempting to leap directly into this future without resolving the present. They are installing technological governance inside societies still structured by:
- Capital accumulation,
- Bureaucratic hierarchy,
- Electoral spectacle,
- Corporate monopolies,
- Platform rent-seeking,
- Technocratic elitism.
This is not transition. It is temporal arrogance—placing the cart before the horse, demanding a crawling infant to sprint like a professional runner.
2. Class Society and the Myth of Neutral Machines
Democracy, republicanism, capitalism, and bureaucracy are all class-based systems, regardless of their rhetoric. They are built on:
- Economic stratification,
- Professional managerial elites,
- Political careerism,
- Capital-dependent legitimacy,
- Technocratic gatekeeping.
When such systems deploy AI and algorithmic governance, the outcome is predictable:
- Platform elites become unelected sovereigns,
- Data priesthoods interpret reality for the masses,
- Algorithmic oligarchies decide outcomes without accountability,
- Bias is hidden behind code,
- Power is displaced, not dissolved.
The machine does not abolish class; it entrenches it invisibly. This is the great illusion of our time: that replacing fallible humans with systems administrated by fallible, interested elites will somehow produce justice.
3. Ethnosocialism as Class-Altruist Civilisation
Ethnosocialism does not claim to be classless. It claims something more honest and more necessary: class-altruism.
As articulated in Volume-2 of the Manifesto of African Corporatist Society, the levelling of economic classes, the overriding of monetary economy, and the establishment of an ethno-corporatist society are not ends in themselves. They are the bridge—the civilisational training ground through which humanity must pass before it can responsibly inhabit a classless future—Publicanism.
Ethnosocialism recognises a fundamental truth:
Human society cannot function today without some form of State or governance.
Structure, coordination, memory, and accountability are not enemies of freedom; they are prerequisites for it. What must change is not the existence of governance, but its logic.
Ethnosocialism replaces class antagonism with class altruism:
- Economic roles exist, but do not dominate govoxical life;
- Technical expertise exists, but does not rule society;
- Governance exists, but is people-rooted and morally supervised.
4. Technology’s Proper Place in the Transitional Era
Under ethnosocialism, technology does not govern. It assists.
Algorithms become:
- Advisory bodies, not sovereign authorities;
- Tools for modelling consequences, not declaring outcomes;
- Instruments of insight, not arbiters of legitimacy.
Technical systems operate under:
- Public accountability,
- Judicial supervision,
- Human override,
- Ethical review grounded in lived reality, not abstract optimisation.
This is not anti-technology. It is civilisational sequencing. Before society can outsource governance to machines, it must first master:
- How to use algorithms without surrendering sovereignty,
- How to interrogate data without deifying it,
- How to retain moral agency in decision-making,
- How to subordinate efficiency to justice.
Only a society trained in class-altruism can resist the temptation to hide domination inside technology.
5. Why the Contemporary World Is Regressing, Not Advancing
Today’s systems speak incessantly about the future while refusing to walk through the present. They design AI governance models without resolving:
- Economic inequality,
- Political alienation,
- Cultural fragmentation,
- Colonial legacies,
- Platform monopolies.
They imagine a classless technological future while clinging to class power in the present. The result is not post-politics, but hyper-politics disguised as neutrality. A class-based society that attempts to become classless through machines will not transcend class. It will encode it permanently. That is not progress. That is regression.
6. The Necessary Sequence of Civilisation
The civilisational sequence cannot be bypassed:
- Class Society (Republicanism) – Where power, wealth, and authority are stratified. These nations operate under a hybrid known as the Social Market Economy or Social Democracy. This is most closely aligned with Liberal Socialism and Evolutionary Socialism. Some are market economies with socialist welfare States, rather than “socialist economies.”
- Class-Altruist Society (Ethnopublicanism) – Ethnosocialism is where hierarchy is restrained, economic domination neutralised, and governance is people-rooted and morally supervised.
- Classless Society (Publicanism) – Post-ethnosocialism is where technology can genuinely govern equality because no class exists to capture it.
Any attempt to jump from Stage One to Stage Three will collapse into a technologically fortified oligarchy. And that will result in publicanism mediated in another form – neither republicanism nor ethnopublicanism.
Conclusion: Mastery Before Surrender
Technology governing society is not inherently dystopian. In the far horizon of civilisation, it may represent the highest expression of collective intelligence. But that horizon is earned, not seized.
Ethnosocialism is the bridge humanity must cross:
- To learn restraint before automation,
- Wisdom before efficiency,
- Moral sovereignty before algorithmic rule.
Until human institutions master how to override technology, they have no right to be governed by it. The tragedy of our era is not that we imagine the future—it is that our current trajectory is refusing to mature into it.
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