Peter Thiel and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin – Apostles of Two Economic Orders. Understanding the US and the Chinese economies from historical lens
Peter Thiel and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin – Apostles of Two Economic Orders. Understanding the US and the Chinese economies from historical lens
(Part 1)
By Hua Bin – August 23, 2025
Peter Thiel is a self-claimed “libertarian” billionaire with a legendary tech career in the Silicon Valley. Thiel wears many hats as “the godfather of the PayPal Mafia”, angel investor in Facebook, creator of Palantir which many call the “most evil company in the US”, and former boss and financial sponsor of Vice President JD Vance.
Thiel also has a wide range of unconventional beliefs and has inspired some troubling (to put it mildly) followings such as Dark Enlightenment and Accelerationism. If his visions are fulfilled, people in the west would be living in a functional “techno feudalism”, a term coined by former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, where the owners/capitalists and workers have the same relationship as feudal landlords and their sharecroppers. But this is the topic for another article.
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