Leftist Reading: Post-Scarcity Anarchism Part 6

Leftist Reading

Episode 126:

This week we’re continuing with Post-Scarcity Anarchism by Murray Bookchin.
You can find the book here:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-post-scarcity-anarchism-book

[Part 1 - 4]
Post-Scarcity Anarchism
Ecology and Revolutionary Thought

[Part 5]
Towards a Liberatory Technology
-Technology and Freedom

[Part 6 - This Week]
Towards a Liberatory Technology
-The Potentialities of Modern Technology - 0:18
-The New Technology and the Human Scale - 26:55

[Part 7 - 8]
Towards a Liberatory Technology

[Part 9 - 11]
The Forms of Freedom

[Part 12 - 16]
Listen, Marxist!

Footnotes:

25) 3:01
For example, in cotton plantations in the Deep South, in automobile assembly plants, and in the garment industry.

26) 13:08
There are two broad classes of computers in use today: analogue and digital computers. The analogue computer has a fairly limited use in industrial operations. My discussion on computers in this article will deal entirely with digital computers.

Citations:

14) 2:26
U.S. Congress, Joint Committee on the Economic Report, Automation and Technological Change: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization, 84th Cong., Ist session (U.S. Govt. Printing Office; Washington, 1955), p. 81.

15) 17:10
Alice Mary Hilton, “Cyberculture,” Fellowship for Reconciliation paper (Berkeley, 1964), p. 8.

16) 21:54
Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization (Harcourt, Brace and Co.; New York, 1934), pp. 69–70.

17) 37:45
Eric W. Leaver and John J. Brown, “Machines without Men,” Fortune, November 1946.