Srnicek and Williams argue that the Left must abandon reactive, small scale ‘folk politics’ and instead embrace a bold, strategic vision for systemic change. They propose a postcapitalist future built on full automation, universal basic income, and the reduction of the workweek, designed not to manage capitalism’s failures, but to transcend them. Drawing lessons from neoliberalism’s rise, they call for long term institution building and ideological coherence to reclaim modernity and reshape public imagination. Their manifesto is both a critique of stagnation and a blueprint for a technologically enabled, democratically governed society beyond wage labour.