RE: When The "Liberator" Becomes "The Opressor".
The implementation of fascist global collectivism is fortunately going to be impossible, because of the laws of physics. While in 1992 it was all but inconceivable to consider that the wealth and power of institutions would be reduced relative to individual wealth and power, around the same time fab labs were also conceived. Today there are devices such as the Snapmaker II that manufacture goods using FDM, laser cutting, and CNC machining, and cost less than $1000. Why does that matter?
Because as individually owned means of production continue to be developed, dispersed, and reduced in cost, individuals become less dependent on industrial production, money, and become more powerful relative to institutions. It is true that to be wealthy is to be of independent means, and that's what physics is creating: independent means for all. It's not just 3D printers, either. Cryptocurrency, CRISPR, mesh networks, aquaponics, etc., are arising in every industry and enable individuals to create technologically advanced luxury goods and services previously only possible to institutions. As development continues, the range of goods and services profitably individually produced increases much faster than economic deprivation can be imposed by non-violent mechanisms.
Certain technologies have been suppressed, and security particularly. Firearms are 1000 year old tech. There is a reason that armies and cops still are using firearms, and it is because they are probably the peak slave management mechanisms possible. Automated drones, nukes, and death rays are incapable of being used to convince slaves to work as ordered. For that you need gangs of actual human thugs, because just killing people en masse does not create slaves that work for you, only corpses and destruction of production facilities necessary to overlords to produce their wealth. There is much better tech possible to secure your individual home, person, and property from armed thugs than chemically propelled pellets. While you can't go buy it at Walmart, you sure can make it at home with a Dobot Mooz.
While resistance at every level is necessary presently to prevent humanity from being relegated to concentration camps where every one of them becomes chattel, it is also necessary to develop decentralized means of production across all industry in order to enable individuals to overpower institutions. Ultimately, freedom is an affect of independent means, and real wealth is not money, but the things we today consider money necessary to acquire. The truth is that when you can make all the goods you need yourself, and voluntarily cooperate with your neighbors to create all the services you need, then money is obsolete. When money is obsolete, so is institutional power.
It is important to grasp that advances in tech always increase the power of individuals versus institutions. We need not only to prevent losing our freedom to institutional force, but to overpower institutions and defeat them, and the way to do this is to gain independent means, real wealth.