Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism

From the term fully automated luxury communism, proposed by the British journalist Aaron Bastani in 2014, which suggests that automation will make work and scarcity obsolete. The Gay and Space parts were later added by activists to suggest that this utopia would also end all persecution of LGBTQ people and enable space travel. The meme was popularized in late 2016 on Reddit.^[1]

Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism (uncountable)

1. (Internet slang, politics, LGBTQ) A futuristic utopian social system proposed by progressive activists in which gender norms, wealth, and work become obsolete and everyone lives in luxury.

   Synonyms: Fully Automated Luxury Queer Space Communism, FALGSC

   • 2016 May 17, @Republiken, Twitter‎^[1], archived from the original on 13 September 2025:

     FULLY AUTOMATED LUXURY GAY SPACE COMMUNISM!

   • 2019, Meg Elison, “David Bowie's Queer Glam Futuristic Fashion”, in Desirina Boskovich, Lost Transmissions: the Secret History of Science Fiction and Fantasy‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: Abrams Image, →ISBN, page 212:

     In an era easily defined by toxic masculinity as a knee-jerk reaction to the sexual revolution, David Bowie remains a reminder that there is more than one way to be a man, and that fully automated luxury gay space communism can be ushered into the world purse-first.

   • 2019 June 20, Annie Lowrey, “What Is Fully Automated Luxury Communism?”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic‎^[3], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 April 2025:

     A mainstay of science fiction and prophetic religious texts (minus the robots part), the idea has come into vogue over the past half-decade or so, both among progressive thinkers concerned about inequality and stagnation and among the internet's meme makers, the promoters of FALC's swervier cousin, Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism.

   • 2022 April 9, Zoë Kopp-Weber, “How the Internet Became Straight”, in The MIT Press Reader‎^[4], archived from the original on 10 April 2022:

     In the end, what I'd call for is something akin to the internet meme of Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism — a yet-to-be-imagined society built atop radical democracy, robust social welfare, and freedom of self-expression most closely resembled by communism.

   • 2023, Cory Doctorow, The Lost Cause‎^[5], New York, N.Y.: Tor Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 122:

     And you don't even have to do that if you don't want to, you can just sit on your fat ass and pretend you've attained fully automated luxury gay space communism.