Post-Scarcity Anarchism
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Post-Scarcity Anarchism is a collection of
post-scarcity. One of Bookchin's major works,[2] its author's radical thesis provoked controversy for being utopian in its faith in the liberatory potential of technology.[3]
Summary
Bookchin's "post-scarcity anarchism" is an economic system based on
libertarian municipalism, and an abundance of fundamental resources. Bookchin argues that post-industrial societies have the potential to be developed into post-scarcity societies, and can thus imagine "the fulfillment of the social and cultural potentialities latent in a technology of abundance".[3] The self-administration of society is now made possible by technological advancement and, when technology is used in an ecologically sensitive manner, the revolutionary potential of society will be much changed.[4]
Bookchin claims that the expanded
vanguard political parties are necessary in the struggle for freedom of the working classes can be dispelled as a myth.[4]
Reception
Bookchin's thesis has been seen as a form of anarchism more radical than that of
Postanarchist scholar Lewis Call compares Bookchin's language to that of Marcel Mauss, Georges Bataille and Herbert Marcuse, and notes that Bookchin anticipates the importance of cybernetic technology to the development of human potential over a decade before the origin of cyberpunk.[3] The collection has been cited favourably by Marius de Geus as presenting "inspiring sketches" of the future,[5] and as "an insightful analysis" and "a discussion of revolutionary potential in a technological society" by Peggy Kornegger in her essay "Anarchism: The Feminist Connection".[6]
See also
- Counterrevolution and Revolt
- The Dispossessed
- Abundance (economics)
- Nanosocialism
- Post-scarcity economy
- Social ecology
- List of books about anarchism
References
- ^
Post-scarcity anarchism, [WorldCat.org]. OCLC 159676.
- ISBN 0-415-21172-7.
- ^ ISBN 0-7391-0522-1.
- ^ a b "Post-Scarcity Anarchism". AK Press. Retrieved 2016-08-01.
- ISBN 90-5727-019-6.
- ISBN 1-902593-40-5.
Further reading
- Battersby, Mark (1973). "Review of Post-Scarcity Anarchism". Alternatives. 3 (1): 8–9. JSTOR 45029923.
- Gitlin, Todd (March 6, 1972). "To the Far Side of the Abyss". The Nation. p. 309.
- Perlin, Terry M. (1972). "Radical Mavericks". Dissent. pp. 538–539.
- Book Review Digest 1972