Peaceful Anarcho-Accelerationism: Decentralized Full Automation for a Society of Universal Care

TL;DR

The paper addresses how to reconcile accelerating automation with universal care by reframing automation as a sociotechnical architecture problem rather than a resource shortfall. It advances peaceful anarcho-accelerationism, defining a formal framework, a layered Liberation Stack, and a post-monetary design of Universal Desired Resources (UDR) to decentralize control and govern technology as commons. Contributions include a rigorous theoretical definition, an explicit dependency-based stack with preconditions, a nonviolent mobilization strategy, and a four-phase roadmap validated by diverse empirical exemplars (Linux, Wikipedia, Mondragon, Rojava, the Fediverse). The study argues for progressive state dissolution through scalable, commons-based governance and demonstrates that care-centered automation can advance human flourishing within planetary boundaries, offering a practical, nonviolent pathway to a post-labor society compatible with existing democratic institutions.

Abstract

Foundational results in machine learning establish that all human labor may in principle be automatable. Consequently, this paper introduces peaceful anarcho-accelerationism, a rigorously defined sociotechnical framework grounded in the 200-year anarchist tradition from Godwin through Kropotkin to Bookchin, and in the methodological categories of Eltzbacher, Nettlau, and Correa, for ensuring that full automation is decentralized, commons-governed, and oriented toward universal care. We state five formal hypotheses and six research objectives, present a formal definition through analytical categories of interdependent spheres, and propose the Liberation Stack as a layered technical architecture with explicit preconditions and gate conditions for each layer. Moreover, we introduce Universal Desired Resources as a post-monetary design principle that eliminates the material basis of intersectional oppression, and develop a framework for progressive state dissolution through incremental, reversible commons-building compatible with existing democratic institutions. A nonviolent social mobilization strategy maps concrete peaceful methods to each stage of transition. We show that accelerationism and degrowth share anarchist pacifism as substrate and differ only along a Pareto-optimal technological frontier. Empirical evidence from Linux, Wikipedia, Mondragon, Rojava, guifi.net, the Fediverse, and contemporary commons initiatives confirms that commons-based systems already operate at scale. We conclude with a phased roadmap specifying explicit assumptions, hard constraints, gate conditions between phases, and detailed limitations.

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• Figure 1: Probability of automation by occupational category, adapted from frey2017future. Both blue-collar and white-collar sectors face substantial automation risk. No occupational category is fully immune.
• Figure 2: The automation fork. Full automation of labor is theoretically possible in principle and empirically underway. The outcome depends on the ownership and governance architecture.
• Figure 3: Chronology of the three intellectual traditions that converge in peaceful anarcho-accelerationism (PAA): the anarchist tradition (from Godwin through Rojava), the accelerationist tradition (from Bookchin through Srnicek and Williams), and the pacifist tradition (from Tolstoy through Gandhi, Sharp, and Chomsky).
• Figure 4: Global weighted-average levelized cost of energy for utility-scale solar PV compared to natural gas, 2010--2022. Data from IRENA irena2023. Solar costs have declined by approximately 89% in twelve years.
• Figure 5: Maslow's hierarchy of needs mapped onto the Liberation Stack and UDR. Self-actualization is what remains when all other needs are met: creativity, spirituality, love, and the free development of each person's unique potential.