German demo group Farbrausch pioneered at this.

im going to put this up as my readme slogan. how should i quote you?

Don't cite it to me, I stole it from a reply to a Cory Doctorow post on Mastodon about technofeudalism. That post itself was rephrasing of a Russian meme about the end of the Soviet Union[0].

So I don't think this one is necessarily citable.

[0] Socialism is a necessary step in the transition between capitalism and capitalism.