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Continuing the story of the Lucas Plan, we lay out how this radical blueprint for socially useful production faced opposition at every turn by entrenched interests who saw it as a threat to their power \u2013 and rightfully so! We then explore how the philosophy of social useful production confronts the contradictions of industrial / informational capitalism, revealing this system to be anti-human in every regard, while also providing a concrete alternative that actualizes the real potential of all people to create better technologies for a better society. When the cynical pragmatists meet your demands for radical change with that old boilerplate bullshit: \u201cOkay, so what\u2019s your plan then?\u201d You can now say, \u201cHey buddy, first of all, fuck you. And second, we\u2019ve got a plan \u2013 the Lucas Plan!\u201d\n\nSome stuff we reference:\n\u2022 The Lucas Plan\u2013An Idea Whose Time has Come? by Dave King: https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/vol22-2/the-new-lucas-plan/ \n\u2022 The Lucas Plan and Socially Useful Production by Adrian Smith: https://steps-centre.org/blog/new-paper-lucas-plan-socially-useful-production/\n\u2022 A Practical Utopian\u2019s Guide to the Coming Collapse by David Graeber: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/a-practical-utopians-guide-to-the-coming-collapse \n\u2022 We Keep You Alive by Lizzie O\u2019Shea: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/we-keep-you-alive-oshea \n\nSubscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! patreon.com/thismachinekills \n\nHosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl).