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A post-capitalist techno-socialist synthesis accelerating AI, automation, and cybernetics to reduce compulsory work, socialize abundance, and plan an economy beyond capital; it combines universalism and decommodification with radically progressive social transformation.
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I want to accelerate AI and automation, socialize abundance, move beyond capitalism, and free life from compulsory work and traditional hierarchies.
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Leans further toward progressive than 99% of the 253 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Morality is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Structure, it sits close to the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
A Canadian political theorist, Srnicek advocates left accelerationism, proposing to use technology, automation, and basic income to move beyond work and build a post-capitalist future of shared abundance.
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The most populous US state, California is a global hub of technology and culture, with strongly progressive, environmentalist, and technocratic politics and a gigantic, innovative market economy.
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A northeastern US state, Massachusetts is a progressive stronghold and a hub of education and science, with prestigious universities, a strong liberal tradition, and politics focused on social rights and innovation.
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Under Allende's Popular Unity, Chile attempted democratic socialism through copper and bank nationalization, agrarian reform, and economic planning until the 1973 military coup.
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Broad doctrine that advocates social or collective ownership of the means of production and economic planning to overcome capitalist exploitation, accepting both the revolutionary and the reformist road to get there.
Democratic Marxism inspired by Rosa Luxemburg, which unites revolution and freedom, values the spontaneity of the masses and the general strike, and criticizes both reformism and the authoritarian centralism of vanguard parties.
Current that seeks to move beyond capitalism through elections, with social ownership of large firms, cooperatives and workplace democracy, rejecting both the vanguard party and mere social democratic management of the market.
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An anti-Leninist Marxist current of Pannekoek, Gorter and Mattick, which holds that workers themselves should run production and power through workers' councils, rejecting the vanguard party, the state and parliamentarism.
Synthesis of anarchist currents centered on the liberation of body and identity, uniting the critique of patriarchy and of gender and sexuality norms with an openness to technology as a tool of emancipation, all under the rejection of the state, capitalism, and every imposed hierarchy.
Current that combines the final stage of communism with technological acceleration, using automation and AI to overcome scarcity, necessary labor, and private property.
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