Synopsis
Essays arguing that modern technology makes material scarcity obsolete, opening the way for a decentralized, ecological, libertarian-socialist society freed from hierarchy and want.
Core passage idea
Paraphrase · Modern copyrighted workBecause technology can now abolish scarcity, the old justifications for hierarchy and toil fall away, making possible a free, decentralized, ecological society organized around abundance.
It ties anarchist liberation to material abundance and ecology, reframing freedom as newly feasible rather than merely ideal.
To avoid a bubble
Pair with Donella Meadows, The Limits to Growth.
Reading note
Read it as a product of 1960s radicalism; weigh its techno-optimism against its lasting ecological and decentralist arguments.
Best paired with
Donella Meadows, The Limits to Growth