Musk, Twitter, and the power of ownership

Private property means that capitalists get to do whatever they want.

Earlier this week Elon Musk purchased Twitter and immediately disbanded its entire board of directors. This may have surprised you if you get your ideas about power from the populist right, who have been telling us that “power has passed from individual bourgeois business to a new ruling class” — the so-called “managerial elite.” Evidently, their “cultu…