Leftist Reading: Post-Scarcity Anarchism Part 8

Leftist Reading

Episode 128:

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 - 7]
Towards a Liberatory Technology
-Technology and Freedom
-The Potentialities of Modern Technology
-The New Technology and the Human Scale
-The Ecological Use of Technology

[Part 8 - This Week]
Towards a Liberatory Technology
-Technology for Life - 0:19
-Discussion - 21:59

[Part 9 - 11]
The Forms of Freedom

[Part 12 - 16]
Listen, Marxist!

Footnotes:

29) 5:57
The “ideal man” of the police bureaucracy is a being whose innermost thoughts can be invaded by lie detectors, electronic listening devices, and “truth” drugs. The “ideal man” of the political bureaucracy is a being whose innermost life can be shaped by mutagenic chemicals and socially assimilated by the mass media. The “ideal man” of the industrial bureaucracy is a being whose innermost life can be invaded by subliminal and predictively reliable advertising. The “ideal man” of the military bureaucracy is a being whose innermost life can be invaded by regimentation for genocide.

Citations:

24) 1:39
Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution (Modern Library; New York, n.d.), p. 593.

25) 3:57
Friedrich Wilhelmsen, preface to Friedrich G. Juenger, The Failure of Technology (Regnery; Chicago, 1956), p. vii.