Fully Automated Luxury Communism

Fully Automated Luxury Communism is a political and economic manifesto by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams that reimagines communism for the age of artificial intelligence and automation. The authors argue that technological advancement has created the material conditions for a post-scarcity society, but that current political and economic systems fail to distribute these benefits equitably. They propose a vision centered on universal basic income, reduced working hours, and collective ownership of automated productive capacity.

The work synthesizes accelerationist theory, Marxist analysis, and contemporary tech criticism to argue that the left must embrace rather than resist technological progress. Srnicek and Williams contend that only through seizing control of automation and data infrastructure can societies achieve genuine liberation from labor. The book has become influential in left-wing tech discourse and debates about AI's social implications.