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Cargando... Post-Scarcity Anarchism (Working Classics) (1971 original; edición 2004)por Murray Bookchin (Autor)
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From the Working Classics Series ' comes this modern anarchist classic, bringing an inspiring vision of how a non-hierarchical, ecologically minded and non-capitalist society can equitably meet human needs. Bookchin argues that material scarcity need no longer plague human history. Through the dissolution of hierarchical relations, social and cultural potentials can now be fulfilled in our 'post-scarcity' era.' No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I had to slow my reading down to comprehend a lot of the text by highlighting phrases, paragraphs even, that resonated with me. The introductions especially are littered with these. They're about as useful as the body of the text itself, infinitely moreso than the long stretches of paragraphs describing mining techniques (hoo boy don't tell 1960s Bookchin about mountaintop removal mining) or outdated engine functions, lol. Concieving of liberated human society as in harmony with the natural world rather than against it is beautiful and the longing for the richness of fully self-actualized persons is compelling. I strongly identify with the holistic definition of anarchism as "not only a stateless society but also a harmonized society which exposes man [sic] to the stimuli provided by both agrarian and urban life, to physical activity and mental activity, to unrepressed sensuality and self-directed spirituality, to communal solidarity and individual development, to regional uniqueness and worldwide brotherhood [sic], to spontaneity and self-discipline, to the elimination of toil and the promotion of craftsmanship."
There is a theoretical gap I have trouble bridging in my head: the preconditions of the post-scarcity society and the necessity to disperse those preconditions in order to live in a liberated society that Bookchin says is predicated on that post-scarcity. We have so much meat, for example, because we have hyperexploited usually undocumented workers in factory farms in which animals are imprisoned for life and pumped full of antibiotics and feed generated on monocropped farms over graded and clear-cut rainforest, and every part of this process occurs half a world away from the next part. A globalized uniform system of brutal exploitation got us over the tyranny of want and now our central contradiction is "what is" vs "what could be." We may very well have to reckon with the return of scarcity and the primacy of justice (distribution of means of or preconditions to life) over freedom (the life worth living) as we pull apart the empire to disperse into our federated assemblies and communes.
I count myself, I suppose, among the people Bookchin describe as "divided into a gnawing fear of nuclear extinction on the one hand and a yearning for material abundance, leisure and security on the other." Can technology bridge the gap between what is and what could be? How much can we loot and pilfer from our shitty actually existing society to make abundance not dependent on the brutal system that Bookchin himself understands is unsustainable? What of the widespread use of technology to make our world smaller and worse: of smart refrigerators and Spotify that listens to your conversations to recommend music, of the reintroduction of scarcity through denial of right-to-repair or our society restructuring itself around opaque social media algorithms... ( )