Four Futures: Life After Capitalism (Jacobin)

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Capitalism is going to end

Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of resources, way to climate change, will bring it all tumbling down. In Four Futures, Frase imagines how this post-capitalist world might look, deploying the tools of both social science and speculative fiction to explore what communism, rentism, socialism and exterminism might in truth entail.

Could the present upward thrust of real-life robocops usher in a world that resembles Ender’s Game? And sure, communism will bring an end to material scarcities and inequalities of wealth—but there’s no be sure that social hierarchies, governed by an economy of “likes,” wouldn’t upward thrust to take their place. A whirlwind tour through science fiction, social theory and the brand new technologies already shaping our lives, Four Futures is a balance sheet of the socialisms we might reach if a resurgent Left is successful, and the barbarisms we could also be consigned to if the ones movements fail.


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