Verso Books Fully Automated Luxury Communism

How automation and the Second Machine Age are the foundation for a different kind of society - beyond work, scarcity and capitalism.How automation and other new technologies offer the foundation for a different kind of society - one beyond both work and capitalism.The first decade of the Twenty-First Century marked the demise of a particular world order. Despite widespread acknowledgement of these disruptive crises, the proposed response from the mainstream left remains the same. It is against the confines of this increasingly limited politics that a new paradigm has emerged. Fully Automated Luxury Communism claims that new technologies will liberate us from work, providing the opportunity to build a society beyond both capitalism and scarcity. Automation, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment, is instead the path to a world of liberty, luxury and happiness. For everyone.Bastani conjures a new politics: a vision of a world of unimaginable abundance, highlighting how we move to energy abundance, feed a world of nine billion, overcome work, transcend the limits of biology and build meaningful freedom for everyone. Rather than a final destination, such a society heralds the beginning of history. Fully Automated Luxury Communism promises a radically new left future for everyone.