Leftist Reading: Post-Scarcity Anarchism Part 6

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 AnarchismEcology 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) 3:01For example, in cotton plantations in the Deep South, in automobile assembly plants, and in the garment industry. 26) 13:08There 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) 2:26U.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) 17:10Alice Mary Hilton, “Cyberculture,” Fellowship for Reconciliation paper (Berkeley, 1964), p. 8. 16) 21:54Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization (Harcourt, Brace and Co.; New York, 1934), pp. 69–70.17) 37:45Eric W. Leaver and John J. Brown, “Machines without Men,” Fortune, November 1946.