This is just kind of fucking stupid at this point. The earliest and most influential cyberpunk works were all created by liberals. They are cool stories but expecting them to be some kind of anti capitalist manifesto is a delusion when stuff like Blade Runner, Neuromancer, or Snow Crash were never made by anti-capitalist. Hell, there are probably more communist working in fantasy literature than Cyberpunk.
I think there is a real widening recruiting gap that became crystalized during the protest when you had pseudo black panthers doing instagram photo ops and then the real black militia shows up, but they are no longer leftist. I don't think it is as simple as the left talks about privilege and it alienates people, but I dunno, it's like the left is just very uncomfortable with popular anger. Then when you have a situation like a popular uprising where you actually do need a bunch of angry young men to go fight, any effort in that direction clashes with the internal culture and scares people.
Whenever the genocides in Africa start to become a national talking point it gets suppressed because Europe doesn't want to pay reparations to Africans or deal with the implications of the mass atrocities coming from the "good" governments that predated the fall into fascism.
It's really hard to write decent scripts at that rate. I mean some people can do it, but for the most part you either get shitty formula stuff or have to hire a writing team ie Colbert.
The concept of radicalization the US operates with is borked, but it's mostly because axis is thought of along subcultural lines instead of any type of actions. So you end up with situations where your actual labor militants or agitators would be radlibs, while the "extreme left" is mostly academics, media figures and their fandoms.
This is just kind of fucking stupid at this point. The earliest and most influential cyberpunk works were all created by liberals. They are cool stories but expecting them to be some kind of anti capitalist manifesto is a delusion when stuff like Blade Runner, Neuromancer, or Snow Crash were never made by anti-capitalist. Hell, there are probably more communist working in fantasy literature than Cyberpunk.