Four Futures: Life After Capitalism Audiobook (Free)

Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of resources, thanks to climate change, will bring it all tumbling down. In Four Futures, Frase imagines how this post-capitalist globe might appearance, deploying the tools of both sociable science and speculative fiction to explore what communism, rentism, socialism, and exterminism might actually entail.

Could the current rise of real-life robocops usher in a world that resembles Ender’s Game? And sure, communism provides a finish to material scarcities and inequalities of wealth-but there’s no assure that cultural hierarchies, governed by an overall economy of ‘wants,’ wouldn’t rise to consider their place. A whirlwind tour through research fiction, public theory, and the new technologies currently shaping our lives, Four Futures is normally an equilibrium sheet of the socialisms we may reach if a resurgent Remaining is successful, as well as the barbarisms we might be consigned to if those movements fail.