num_pages: 150
description: An exhilarating exploration into the utopias and dystopias that could develop from present societyPeter 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 Enders Game? And sure communism will bring an end to material scarcities and inequalities of wealthbut theres no guarantee that social hierarchies governed by an economy of likes wouldnt 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.
language: English
title: Four Futures: Life After Capitalism
publisher: Verso