Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of
resources, thanks 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
actually entail. Could the current rise 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
guarantee that social hierarchies, governed by an economy of "likes,"
wouldn't rise to take their place.
A whirlwind tour through
science fiction, social theory and the new technologies already shaping
our lives, Four Futures is a balance sheet of the socialisms we may
reach if a resurgent Left is successful, and the barbarisms we may be
consigned to if those movements fail.
Four Futures : Life After Capitalism - Peter Frase
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