Leftist Reading: Post-Scarcity Anarchism Part 8

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 AnarchismEcology 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) 5:57The “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) 1:39Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution (Modern Library; New York, n.d.), p. 593. 25) 3:57Friedrich Wilhelmsen, preface to Friedrich G. Juenger, The Failure of Technology (Regnery; Chicago, 1956), p. vii.