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/298/ Working For Freedom ft. Alex Gourevitch
🕑 Added 2022-10-25 17:26:42 +0000 UTCOn shared-labour socialism.
Political theorist Alex Gourevitch talks to us about his critique of post-work thought, and how it presupposes the very labour it seeks to free us from. We start of by distinguishing post-work socialism (e.g. Fully Automated Luxury Communism) from various propositions for a Universal Basic Income, and discuss why these ideas are popular today.
We then dedicate much of the time to debating Gourevitch's alternative proposal for "shared-labour socialism". What counts as necessary labour – and who is going to do it? How has globalisation changed people's perspectives on what necessary labour is? And will we be producing more under socialism?
Part 2 is here: patreon.com/posts/73765804
Readings:
- Post-Work Socialism?, Alex Gourevitch, Catalyst
- Why your flights keep getting cancelled, Daniel Zamora Vargas, New Statesman
Listenings:
- /149/ It’s Not Robots, It’s Capitalism ft. Aaron Benanav / Liz Pancotti
- /72/ Frankly Awesome Lefty Conversation ft. Aaron Bastani
- /88/ Vouchers for Toxicity ft. Anton Jäger
Comments
Richard R
Yeah, automation of automation is already happening, it's just pernicious and awful and stupid--it requires political oversight to not just be outright terrible. (referring here to algorithms spitting out programs daily that used to take programmers months.)
Eli S
Yoooo, Cambridge Massachusetts! Imperial core of the PMC! "You can't automate automation." I mean, you absolutely can. It's just techbro dream-stuff rather than socialist activist dream-stuff.
