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Fully Automated Luxury Communism
by Aaron Bastani
(Verso, £14.99)
“THE FUTURE is already here, it’s just not very evenly distributed,” science-fiction writer William Gibson once famously remarked and that’s the contention of Aaron Bastani’s first book.
No longer content with merely making progressive modifications to the capitalist-realist status quo, fully automated luxury communism — Bastani's coinage — has become a rallying call for a new left that demands everything.
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