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In Post-Scarcity
Anarchism (2nd ed., pp. 105-161). Montreal, Canada: Black Rose Books.
Bookchin frames the question around the role of order and hierarchy in
utopia by first defining utopia as a communist society in the spirit of Marx, but
becomes unnecessary since the poor no longer need the rich to obtain anything.
Frase, P. (2016). Four Futures: Life After Capitalism. Brooklyn, NY: Verso Books.
returning to a less centralized structure, though this may take many forms, some
more hierarchical than others. The kind of post-scarcity envisioned in Star Trek, for
example could lead to a rentist society, where any object can be cloned through
use of 3D replicators and the rich then enforce hierarchies by copyrighting use of
makes the poor economically superfluous and attempt genocide. While both
possibilities seem dystopian, the second seems less so, as it leads to a perfect society
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utopia. Because unlimited resources are impossible, humans must instead have
technological fix, e.g. care work in raising children, nurturing the disabled and the
utopian society to be one where people do not age, get sick, or die. 1
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