The first decade of the twenty-first century marked the demise of the current world order.
Despite widespread acknowledgement of these disruptive crises the proposed response from the
mainstream remains the same. Against the confines of this increasingly limited politics 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. In his first book radical
political commentator Aaron Bastani conjures a new politics: a vision of a world of
unimaginable hope 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.
