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Fully Automated Luxury Communism
288 pages
A provocative, techno-optimistic manifesto that dares to imagine a post-scarcity future of boundless abundance and leisure.
What it feels like
Reading this book feels like opening a window in a stuffy, doom-filled room. It moves at a brisk, manifesto-like clip, sweeping the reader up in a wave of audacious techno-optimism and radical imagination. The mood is overwhelmingly expansive and hopeful, a stark contrast to the bleakness that often characterizes modern political and ecological discourse. The prose is accessible and persuasive, blending sharp critiques of current economic stagnation with soaring, utopian visions of asteroid mining, renewable energy, and the end of mandatory labor. It is an intellectually charged experience that delights left-leaning readers and tech enthusiasts who are exhausted by capitalist realism and desperate for a bold, joyful blueprint of what a liberated, post-scarcity society could actually look like.
- Mood
- hopeful
- expansive
- intellectually charged
- utopian
- Tone
- optimistic
- provocative
- earnest
- visionary
- polemical
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- post-scarcity · techno-optimism · radical imagination · the end of work · planetary abundance
- The writing
- Accessible and manifesto-like, blending journalistic synthesis with bold, persuasive political rhetoric.
- The arc
- Moves from a sobering assessment of contemporary crises to an exhilarating, boundless vision of a liberated future.
- Who it's for
- Left-leaning thinkers and tech-curious readers hungry for a radically optimistic alternative to modern doom-scrolling.
Content notes
- climate anxiety
- economic inequality
About the book
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
Description from Open Library.
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