Inventare il futuro. Per un mondo senza lavoro

The first half is a convincing and much-needed critique of left wing localism/horizontalism, holding up the left's inadequacy in contrast to the success of the neoliberal project. I enjoyed the macroeconomic approach, looking at the bigger picture from pre-industrialism into the future, and found th Leggi tutto

250 pages of straight fire holy shit

So I'm someone with a technology background who recently got into leftist politics, and I feel like this book was written for me. It's a short book (less than 200 pages before endnotes) and so it's obviously not meant to be a comprehensive guide to how to get to a post-work world, but rather an outl Leggi tutto

I read this entire book during shifts at work. I got paid to read this book and write this review. I am Inventing the Future. It is now.

I approached it eagerly because it belongs to a broader genre -- postcapitalism, postscarcity, cyberutopianism, autonomism, etc -- that's the main focus of my current research. It was well worth reading for their positive agenda, but required some suppression of the gag reflex for all the disingenuo Leggi tutto

Straight fire in under 200 pages. Do you want to build a better future that has an expansive UBI, Post-Work, Post-Scarcity society that is actually possible and scalable? Read this book. This book begins with a look at "folk-politics'' and the traditional form of organizing on the left. We examine t Leggi tutto