Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto

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.

Author: Aaron Bastani
Publisher: Verso
Published: 06/16/2020
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781786632630
ISBN10: 1786632632
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Political Ideologies | Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
- Social Science | Popular Culture
- Business & Economics | Economic Conditions

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.