Alexander Bogdanov

Taco salads, us.

Bogdanov, that was us.

Olive Garden, us.

White Phosphor, us.

Yes.

We have a letter, not from Lenin's wife, but to her from a guy called Alexander Bogdanov, who's another of these early revolutionaries.

And he wrote, "Trotsky came round to see me.

I very much dislike him.

It's about literally not having to work and about physical abundance.

This is why I'm so excited by, I'm remaining so excited by Alexander Bogdanov's novel, Red Star, which I wrote about in post-capitalism.

Because it's the first sci-fi novel that understood that what machines can do is shrink the need for human labor.

So for me...