Post-Scarcity Anarchism
Summary
Essay collection arguing that modern technology makes material scarcity unnecessary and could support decentralized, ecological, self-governing communities. Includes “Towards a Liberatory Technology” (1965).
Why it’s useful here
“Towards a Liberatory Technology” is the key essay. It asks whether technology can be scaled and designed for local, democratic control, which is the blog’s central question applied to ICT.
Key ideas
- Technology’s liberatory potential depends on scale and who controls it
- Human-scale, decentralized production
- Basis for libertarian municipalism (later works)
Related
- bookchin-1982-ecology-of-freedom.md
- illich-1973-tools-for-conviviality.md