Fully Automated Luxury Communism

A Manifesto

Tapa blanda, 288 páginas

Idioma English

Publicado el 16 de Junio de 2020 por Verso.

ISBN:
978-1-78663-263-0
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In his first book, leading political commentator Aaron Bastani conjures a new politics: a vision of a world of unimaginable hope, highlighting how we might move to energy abundance, feed a world of 9 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.—Publisher

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Fully Automated Luxury Communism

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Fully Automated Luxury Communism est un essai du journaliste anglais Aaron Bastani, dans lequel il expose sa vision d'un futur technologique libéré du capitalisme.

Dans un premier temps, l'auteur fait le constat de l'échec patent du capitalisme à tenir sa promesse d'une prospérité perpétuelle et à faire face aux enjeux du XXIe siècle, aux premiers rangs desquels figure la crise écologique : changement climatique mais aussi épuisement des ressources non renouvelables, et leurs conséquences sociales et migratoires. Il estime également que nous sommes actuellement au cœur d'une révolution technologique de grande ampleur, dont l'impact sera similaire à deux révolutions majeures dans notre histoire : l'apparition de l'agriculture et la sédentarisation de l'humanité lors de la révolution néolithique ; l'exploitation de nouvelles sources d'énergie (la vapeur, le charbon puis l'électricité) et l'industrialisation de la production lors de la révolution industrielle au XVIIIe et XIXe siècle.

Partant de ce constat, il dessine …

On global politics and economics of urgency, with hope

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I appreciate the direction Bastani is heading towards a lot. All the basic premises about global overproduction, growing inequality and climate crisis are decently analysed. The cause of this mess is also correctly attributed to politics. Yet many things made me shrug: from heavy leaning on the idea that economic progression curves are doomed to continue as they did before, to the very concrete economic proposals, which require much more context to evaluate (at least in my case). I expected more direct politics (apart from just advocating populism), and probably general inspiration. However, in my eyes this is a work born of urgency, and it does its job. It helps setting up an extremely important civilisational discourse by articulating perspectives and proposals to discuss. Bastani should simply be praised just for that.