Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto
by Aaron Bastani  (Author)

About the Author
Aaron Bastani is co-founder and Senior Editor at Novara Media and has a doctorate from the University of London. His research interests include new media, social movements and political economy. He has written for Vice, the Guardian, the London Review of Books and the New York Times and regularly appears as a commentator on the BBC and Sky News.

About this book
A different kind of politics for a new kind of society--beyond work, scarcity and capitalism

In the twenty-first century, new technologies should liberate us from work. Automation, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment, is instead the path to a world of liberty, luxury and happiness—for everyone. Technological advance will reduce the value of commodities—food, healthcare and housing—towards zero.

Improvements in renewable energies will make fossil fuels a thing of the past. Asteroids will be mined for essential minerals. Genetic editing and synthetic biology will prolong life, virtually eliminate disease and provide meat without animals. New horizons beckon.

In Fully Automated Luxury Communism, Aaron Bastani conjures a vision of extraordinary hope, showing how we move to energy abundance, feed a world of 9 billion, overcome work, transcend the limits of biology, and establish meaningful freedom for everyone. Rather than a final destination, such a society merely heralds the real beginning of history.

Brief contents
Introduction: Six Characters in Search of a Future
I. Chaos under Heaven
1. The Great Disorder
2. The Three Disruptions
3. What Is Fully Automated Luxury Communism?
II. New Travellers
4. Full Automation: Post-Scarcity in Labour
5. Limitless Power: Post-Scarcity in Energy
6. Mining the Sky: Post-Scarcity in Resources
7. Editing Destiny: Age and Post-Scarcity in Health
8. Food without Animals: Post-Scarcity in Sustenance
III. Paradise Found
9. Popular Support: Luxury Populism
10. Fundamental Principles: The Break with Neoliberalism
11. Reforging the Capitalist State
12. FALC: A New Beginning
Bibliography
Index

Pages: 288 pages
Publisher: Verso (June 11, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1786632624
ISBN-13: 978-1786632623

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