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# Four Futures: Life After Capitalism (Jacobin)

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An “invigorating” vision of four post-capitalist futures that consider the intersections of technology, the environment, and modern politics ( The Guardian ) Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of resources, thanks to climate change, will bring it all tumbling down. In Four Futures , Frase imagines how this post-capitalist world might look, deploying the tools of both social science and speculative fiction to explore what communism, rentism, socialism and exterminism might actually entail. Could the current rise of real-life robocops usher in a world that resembles Ender’s Game ? And sure, communism will bring an end to material scarcities and inequalities of wealth—but there’s no guarantee that social hierarchies, governed by an economy of “likes,” wouldn’t rise to take their place. A whirlwind tour through science fiction, social theory and the new technologies already shaping our lives, Four Futures is a balance sheet of the socialisms we may reach if a resurgent Left is successful, and the barbarisms we may be consigned to if those movements fail.

Review: Highly recommend - I have bought several copies of the book to share with friends and my granddaughter. This is an excellent book which lays out four possible scenarios to contemplate the future. It is a very readable and thoughtful book. The author has a good grasp of Marxism and unlike many Marxists knows how to apply Marxist ideas to the problems we are facing today. The author adds humor and examples from popular culture which makes the book very readable. As the author states, "I hope to reclaim the long left-wing tradition of mixing imaginative speculation with political economy." I think he does this very successfully. The author's idea to decommodify labor and have a universal basic income are compelling ideas for the future.
Review: Well-constructed thought experiment on possibilities for the future - Peter Frase has successfully constructed four possible futures that I could imagine coming into existence--and the possibilities he sees range from positively heavenly to downright horrific. The major corrective of the text is to the overt optimism of most "tech-futurist" models, which tend to glamorize technological innovation as though it will automatically lead to a utopia or utopia-adjacent outcome. The futures, presented convincingly as ideal-types (homage to Weber), seem quite plausible and well outlined. Frase presents the book as social science-fiction, and I found it to be a great way to merge the social science approach with the inescapable inexactness of a future-prediction-oriented book. The book is a perfect length to get across his models, leaving room for so many unknowns but sketching out how the world could look depending on the choices we collectively make over the next few decades. I do like that Frase does not sugar-coat the horrors that might await us if we do not take seriously the inflection point we not are living in, and he does not assume that humans cannot be downright horrible to one another and sleep perfectly well. I would have liked to see more in the text about climate change and the real possibilities that climate change brings; I think the horrific outcome that Frase sees as one of the four futures could emerge more easily than he seems to imagine because the text emphasizes work and automation over the impact of climate shifts. I believe it could easily be the converse reality that we face in the next few decades. I was also expecting, from a sociologist, to see more emphasis on human population dynamics, migration, and food production, which will all be chaotic for the next half-century as climate shifts push every button on the human population control board. There is a focus in the text on labor.

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| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #193,336 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #12 in Utopian Ideology #152 in Sociology of Social Theory #179 in International Economics (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.2 out of 5 stars 455 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Highly recommend
*by C***R on August 25, 2017*

I have bought several copies of the book to share with friends and my granddaughter. This is an excellent book which lays out four possible scenarios to contemplate the future. It is a very readable and thoughtful book. The author has a good grasp of Marxism and unlike many Marxists knows how to apply Marxist ideas to the problems we are facing today. The author adds humor and examples from popular culture which makes the book very readable. As the author states, "I hope to reclaim the long left-wing tradition of mixing imaginative speculation with political economy." I think he does this very successfully. The author's idea to decommodify labor and have a universal basic income are compelling ideas for the future.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Well-constructed thought experiment on possibilities for the future
*by R***T on November 9, 2021*

Peter Frase has successfully constructed four possible futures that I could imagine coming into existence--and the possibilities he sees range from positively heavenly to downright horrific. The major corrective of the text is to the overt optimism of most "tech-futurist" models, which tend to glamorize technological innovation as though it will automatically lead to a utopia or utopia-adjacent outcome. The futures, presented convincingly as ideal-types (homage to Weber), seem quite plausible and well outlined. Frase presents the book as social science-fiction, and I found it to be a great way to merge the social science approach with the inescapable inexactness of a future-prediction-oriented book. The book is a perfect length to get across his models, leaving room for so many unknowns but sketching out how the world could look depending on the choices we collectively make over the next few decades. I do like that Frase does not sugar-coat the horrors that might await us if we do not take seriously the inflection point we not are living in, and he does not assume that humans cannot be downright horrible to one another and sleep perfectly well. I would have liked to see more in the text about climate change and the real possibilities that climate change brings; I think the horrific outcome that Frase sees as one of the four futures could emerge more easily than he seems to imagine because the text emphasizes work and automation over the impact of climate shifts. I believe it could easily be the converse reality that we face in the next few decades. I was also expecting, from a sociologist, to see more emphasis on human population dynamics, migration, and food production, which will all be chaotic for the next half-century as climate shifts push every button on the human population control board. There is a focus in the text on labor.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Abundance or scarcity? - Hierarchy or Equality? I know which I'd pick.
*by N***S on May 3, 2017*

Nice work, exploring four scenarios for the future, which of course are already present in society just not widely distributed. Compelling, references to different science fiction; distopias and utopias bolster his arguments and make the work very accessible. Its very clear which of the 4 futures makes sense to Peter, and to me so if you are looking for an unbiased view - this isn't it.

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