Fully Automated Luxury Communism A Manifesto

1. Food Without Animals

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Part III. Paradise Found

1. Popular Support

Against Elite Technology

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The Red and the Green

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Against Globalism, towards Internationalism

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1. Fundamental Principles

Carillion’s Collapse and the East Coast Line

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Index

‘Abundance Index’, 235–6
Africa, 107–10, 162
ageing about, 138–41 in Britain, 141–4 Elysium, 154–8 gene therapies, 149–54 genetic information, 144–9 Green Revolution, 164–8
agriculture about, 31–2 cellular, 171, 174, 175, 177–81 end of mass, 79–80
agronomic research, 165
Alzheimer’s disease, 143
Amazon, 88–9
Amazon GO, 88–9
Antarctic Treaty System, 136, 136n
anthropocene, 96–7
anti-austerity, politics of, 201
Apollo, 122, 128, 137
Apple, 84
Arkwright, Richard, 208
Arkyd, 132
Around the World in Eighty Days (Verne), 33
artificial intelligence (AI), 90
asteroid 16 Psyche, 134
asteroid belt, 131
asteroid mining, 119–20, 133–4
Atlas robot, 82–3, 132
automation actual, 88–92 growth of, 239 in medicine, 91
autonomy autonomous vehicles, 83–6 of publicly owned firms under market socialism, 231
Autumn Budget (2017), 58
Ava Winery, 180
Badiou, Alain, 18
Bank of England, 228, 229
Beck, Peter, 123
Bezos, Jef, 121, 135
biology, as information, 39
birth rites, 146–7
Blue Origin, 124, 133–4, 135
Blumenthal, Chris, 2–4
Blur Origin, 121
BNP (British National Party), 27
Boeing, 121
Borlaug, Norman, 165–6, 171
Boston Consulting Group, 46–7
Boulton, Matthew, 34
BP (British Petroleum), 100
Brand, Stewart, 48–9, 64
Brexit, 21, 28–9, 30, 206–7
Brin, Sergey, 171
Britain ageing in, 141–4 transportation in, 215 unions in, 211–12
British National Party (BNP), 27
British Petroleum (BP), 100
British Rail Consortium, 89
Brus, Włodzimierz The General Problems of the Functioning of the Socialist Economy, 231 From Marx to the Market, 230–1
Brynjolfsson, Erik, 93
capital, when it becomes labour, 69–71
‘capital stock’, 69
capitalism about, 22, 51–3 critics of, 34–6 features of, 137 market, 39–40, 197–8 Marx on, 35, 199
capitalist realism, 17–19, 186
capitalist state central banks as central planners, 226–9 end of GDP, 232–6 socialised capital market, 230–2 speculative economy, 229–30 Universal Basic Income (UBI), 224–6
carbon emissions, 197
Carillion, 201–3
Carney, Mark, 86–7
cellular agriculture, 171, 174, 175, 177–81
central banks, as central planners, 226–9
central planning, 226–9
Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES), 209
Ceres, 130, 131
Children of Men (film), 18
China National Space Administration, 131
Clancy, John, 212
Clara Foods, 178–9
clean energy, 190
CLES (Centre for Local Economic Strategies), 209
Cleveland Model, 209
climate change. See also decarbonisation about, 96, 188–9, 238–9 catastrophes and, 97–8 challenges of, 170 forecasts for, 161–2 globalism and, 197–8 solutions to, 115–16
Clinton, Hillary, 29
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat (CRISPR), 150–2, 153–4
coal production, 118
cobalt, 117
Cold War, end of, 15–17
communism about, 53–6 defined, 51 post-capitalism without, 56–9
The Communist Manifesto (Engels and Marx), 51–2
Compass, 225–6
Conservative Party, 29–30, 141–2
Corbyn, Jeremy, 28, 30
credit status, ageing and, 140
Crick, Francis, 149
crises, 9–20, 22–3, 48–9. See also specific crises
Cuban, Mark, 90
cultured meat, 170–5
da Vinci surgery robot, 90
Das Kapital (Marx), 51–2
data storage, 45–6
decarbonisation, 100–1, 118, 198–9, 217–23
Deep Blue, 80, 81
Deep Space Industries (DSI), 132,

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