States lacking technological autonomy cannot sustain genuine revolutionary politics.

Evidence

The major source of political conflict and potential revolution in many countries of the Middle East, as well as Africa and Asia today, is the inability of so-called radical nationalist regimes and movements to manage, let alone resolve, the social, economic and political problems of independence.… Until the states in the Middle East can control their economic activity and create or produce their own technology, their access to revolutionary experience will remain limited. The very political categories essential to a revolution will be lacking. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 795

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth contrasting against dependency-theory accounts that explain postcolonial political limits by economic structure rather than by racial capability.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 795
• XREF: connects to: Technical administration makes the possibility of liberation progressively more unimaginable — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 119; The state cannot command instrumentarian power but must work through surveillance capitalists — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1230; No technology is neutral; each reproduces or contests power — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 2421 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Technical administration makes the possibility of liberation progressively more unimaginable — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 119; The state cannot command instrumentarian power but must work through surveillance capitalists — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1230; No technology is neutral; each reproduces or contests power — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 2421 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Technology’s liberating or enslaving character is decided politically, not intrinsic #complicates (0.73) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 63