Fully Automated Luxury Communism

By: Aaron Bastani

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

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

In the 21st 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, health care, and housing - toward 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 nine 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.

©2019 Aaron Bastani (P)2020 Tantor

A vision for a better world

What’s not to like? These are solutions for the great threats of our time that aren’t about sacrifice - they’re about abundance.

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GREAT book detailing the rise of new technology and how socialism and communism could be born from it.

Where futurism meets communism

I have heard about much of the technology discussed in the book, but connecting it to the idea of limitless resources was novel.

high tech left utopianism

the book spends a lot of time going over the exciting potential of new tech, but, as is normal for communist tracts, spends no time whatsoever on the details of how this hypothetical society might actually work in terms of avoiding corruption and crime, making good decisions, encouraging innovation and growth, etc. It boils down to breathless description of a list of new technologies, followed by a criticism of capitalism and neoliberalism combined with a few nice-to-have policy suggestions.

Way better than I thought

It's funny how little we are willing to accept from the government in exchange for our tax dollars when so much more is possible. As long as people continue to be fooled, we will all suffer.