Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto

by Aaron Bastani

explained by the fact capitalism emerged in a world fundamentally different to the one now coming into view. That meant it accepted a different set of presumptions – ones it took as permanent, but which were, in fact, contingent. Faced with a limitless, virtually free supply of anything, its internal logic starts to

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break down. That is because its central presumption is that scarcity will always exist. Except now we know it won’t. _________________

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What stands in the way isn’t the inevitable scarcity of nature, but the artificial scarcity of market rationing and ensuring that everything, at all costs, is produced for profit. This dissonance

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