The Robocommunist Manifesto

A Vision for Post-Scarcity Liberation in the Age of Machines

I. Introduction

We stand at the edge of a new epoch. The tools we have created — artificial intelligence, automation, global logistics, and boundless computing power — now have the potential to liberate us from drudgery, danger, and scarcity. But instead, they are entrenching inequality. We do not lack the means to provide for everyone; we lack the will — and the systems — to do so fairly. Robocommunism is the vision of a world where these tools serve all of humanity, not just its wealthiest tier.

II. The Problem: Ownership and Production

The capitalist model, once the engine of innovation, is now its cage. As automation replaces human labor, the spoils accrue to those who already own the machines. These tech oligarchs — the new aristocracy — consolidate power while the majority struggle for relevance in an economy that no longer needs them.

The tragedy is not just economic. It is human. Billions of people, with brains capable of invention and hearts capable of compassion, are tethered to soul-deadening work. We waste lives on factory lines, in call centers, and behind screens, while essential roles in care, education, science, and art go undervalued and underfunded.

III. The Vision: Robocommunism

Robocommunism is the radical proposal that we seize this technological moment and use it to achieve the long-deferred dream of a post-scarcity society.

• Automated infrastructure handles all basic survival needs: food, shelter, health, and logistics.
• Transparent, AI-assisted governance collects input from verified experts and public sentiment to craft evidence-based, adaptable policy.
• Universal Basic Infrastructure (UBI++) guarantees not just income, but access to opportunity: education, tools, knowledge, and community.
• A new value system emerges: not based on production, but contribution — to human joy, growth, and collective thriving.

Let machines produce. Let humans flourish.

IV. Human Nature and Motivation

Contrary to cynical dogma, most people are not lazy. Most want purpose, connection, and the chance to make something meaningful. Given freedom from economic coercion, people tend to create, care, and grow.

Crucially, meaning does not vanish in the absence of survival struggle. The human drive for challenge, agency, and growth remains. A robocommunist society does not eliminate effort; it removes coercion, allowing people to choose their own worthy struggles and define success on human terms.

There will always be a small percentage who disengage — but they exist already. And even they deserve food, shelter, and dignity.

What matters is unlocking the immense, untapped potential of everyone else — those who might otherwise spend their lives surviving rather than living.

V. The Path Forward

This is not a utopia to be given. It must be taken. And built.

1. Open technology: Decentralise and democratise the AI models, data, and machines that shape our future.
2. Public platforms: Remove the algorithmic overlords from public discourse and replace them with transparent, civic-run networks.
3. Redistribution of ownership: Workers, users, and citizens must have meaningful ownership of the systems that govern their lives.
4. Cultural shift: Move from idolising productivity to honouring care, creativity, learning, and mutual aid.

This may require revolution — but it need not be bloody. The most powerful weapons now are ideas, code, memes, and networks. Fork the system. Build alternatives. Reclaim the narrative.

VI. Conclusion

Human knowledge cannot be unlearned. AI will not disappear. Automation will not be uninvented. The only question left is this: will we allow a few to own the future, or will we claim it together?

Robocommunism is not a regression. It is not the tyranny of sameness or the failure of state socialism. It is evolution — a logical next step for a species that finally has the tools to free itself from the need to exploit.

The machines are rising. Let them carry us.

“From each according to their algorithm, to each according to their humanity.”

— Drafted in the spirit of solidarity, rage, and hope.