BOOKS
Fully Automated Luxury Communism
by Aaron Bastani
(Verso ISBN 9781786632623)
In Iain Banks’s celebrated science fiction ‘Culture’ series, he set himself the task of imagining a post-scarcity civilization and, crucially, what a good and useful life might consist of in such a society. Back in the world of the real, Aaron Bastani, co-founder of the Novara Media website has written a feisty manifesto for just such a political entity: . Before outlining what he means by the term, the author delineates the many morbid symptoms
