1. Aaron John Bastani was born on February 1984 and is a British political commentator, journalist and author.
19 Facts About Aaron Bastani
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Aaron Bastani co-founded the left-wing media organisation Novara Media in 2011 and regularly hosts and contributes to its Novara Live live news show on YouTube.
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Aaron Bastani authored the book Fully Automated Luxury Communism on the subject in 2019.
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Aaron Bastani was born as Aaron Peters in Bournemouth to a single mother, who died in 2015.
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Aaron Bastani was employed in cleaning, the service industry and social care, and voted for the Conservative Party.
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Aaron Bastani completed an undergraduate and master's degree at the University College London.
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Aaron Bastani held a significant role in the 2010 United Kingdom student protests against increased tuition fees as an activist and organiser.
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Aaron Bastani completed his PhD in 2015 after writing the doctoral thesis in six months; in a blog post he credited this in part to his high carbohydrate diet and his purchase of a MacBook Pro.
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In 2011, Aaron Bastani co-founded Novara Media, a left-wing news outlet, with James Butler.
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Aaron Bastani has been credited with popularising the term "fully automated luxury communism".
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Aaron Bastani first used it in a 2014 IMO Aaron Bastani video for Novara Media.
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Aaron Bastani argued for public ownership of automation as a way to improve falling living conditions and wages.
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Aaron Bastani later said that the concept is based on Karl Marx's and, and imagines a society with decentralised control over technologies that reduce the amount of human labour required.
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Aaron Bastani wrote a book named after the term, Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto, published in 2019 by Verso Books.
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Aaron Bastani opposes capitalism for creating short-term incentives that lead to artificial shortages.
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Aaron Bastani's mother was Catholic and his father was a non-practising Muslim.
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Aaron Bastani said in 2024 that he had realised over the past few years how Catholicism had influenced his political values.
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In July 2023, Aaron Bastani reported being attacked by a man who shouted his name and assaulted him.
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Aaron Bastani, who described pacifying his aggressor, believed the violence was politically motivated.