I smile when I read this statement both because it's true and because it's exactly what Marx said about capitalism. Irony is ironic.
That does not mean that the beast is dying, only that it's changing its coloration. What we have here is a totalitarian impulse fed by technical means that have heretofore not been available - consider what Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia would have been with today's surveillance technology. The Nazis and the Communists haven't changed, only their technical abilities.
It will break eventually because every society so constructed has, mostly because the Utopia promised never comes to pass and eventually the ruling minority becomes a vulnerable aristocracy. That isn't quite the situation yet and we might well have decades of misery ahead before it comes to pass. Or not - the same technical means that empower the totalitarians also empower their opponents, who suffer more from disorganization than inability and who are quite as capable of taking advantage of the technological velocity as anyone else. Unfortunately this also suggests that what we gain in brevity we lose in increased capability for violence.
Still, the left marches determinedly toward the cliff and wishes to carry us all along with it. They aren't quite out of transgressive classes to champion yet - pedophilia and cannibalism aren't used up - but they're running short. That ploy isn't the only arrow in their quiver, to quote Nanzi, and so long as they can contrive enemies to crush they'll still have the same model available. Orwell's Emmanuel Goldstein was, as we recall, entirely fictional.
Button up and keep your powder dry. The ride is only beginning.