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British political theorist, Williams co-wrote the accelerationist manifesto and Inventing the Future with Nick Srnicek. He advocates automation, shorter working hours and a basic income as part of a postcapitalist left strategy.
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Of all the topics, Economy is where Alex Williams stands furthest from the rest.
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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.
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.
Branch of socialism advocating the global unity of working people against capitalism, rejecting bourgeois nationalism, and defending international working-class solidarity.
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FeudalismFar-Right27%
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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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