I don’t agree that artifacts have politics the way magical objects in Toklien’s world are imbued with meaning or will. I do however agree that some technologies tend to encourage certain politics.

It’s always been puzzling to me that so many libertarian types love nuclear, which is a technology that tends to encourage big centralized systems and therefore big centralized powers (for many reasons). Solar and wind are much more amenable to decentralized voluntary fluid modes of social organization.

I guess small modular nukes would be better this way, but they still require a lot of security and life cycle management that tends to encourage large centralized administrative power.