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Aaron Bastani is thinking about automated luxury…communism?

The TED Interview

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The Commuest Manifesto by Karl Marx

The most we've talked about marks ar this. One of the things that i think i so interesting about the book, intellectually, is the way you recast karl marx himself. And i think present a vision of marks which i think is accurate and under appreciated. On some level, marks was kind of techno utopian. He believed that capitalism, for all its flaws, was creating a set of technological revolutions that would ultimately lead to this utopian society he was fighting for. There there's a kind of tec optimis side of mark's writing that i think got kind of lost the twentieth century. You're reviving it, i think, in a very powerful way with this book

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