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Aaron Bastani: Fully Automated Luxury Communism (Hardcover, 2019, Verso Books) 3 stars

Review of 'Fully Automated Luxury Communism' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

As stupid as stupid goes. It has the form, content and style of a California ideology fantasy. It praises the most outlandish and horrendous people and technologies there are. Bastani reading and understanding of Marx appears to be so bad that it is astonishing that he can call himself a social democrat, let alone a communist. And when push comes to show the best he can argue for is some populist watered down social democracy that supposedly should be able to transition into communism. I wounder why these accelerationists know that their strategy and thinking is similar or even a farsical repetition of the right-wing social democracy of Bernstein and his ilk.