What is fully automated luxury communism?

Supporters believe fully automated luxury communism is an opportunity to realise a post-work society, where machines do the heavy lifting and employment as we know it is a thing of the past. read more

Fully automated luxury communism (FALC), is, in essence, the idea of fully embracing automation. The theory is that in the near future, technology will have advanced to the point that most mundane (and some less mundane) work tasks can be done completely by machines. read more

Supporters believe fully automated luxury communism is an opportunity to realise a post-work society, where machines do the heavy lifting and employment as we know it is a thing of the past read more

The fully automated luxury communism part is in reference to F.A.L.C. A sort of 'new communist horizon' proposed and discussed by various younger western intellectuals (navaro media, nick srnicek and alex williams) and is primarily a reaction to a trend of automating capitalism seeing automation as a problem under capitalism but as an ideal for a communist society. read more