Technological Path to Socialism

The Technological Path to Socialism is a work of Directivist political theory attributed to Director-General Raul Garcia and published in Cervera in 1963. Composed of X chapters totaling XX pages as originally published, the work analyses the development of and contemporary developments thereof and proposes that these developments should form the basis of the National Directivist Party's economic and social programming going forward; it describes these developments in Cervera and elsewhere as a, believed to be the first printed use of this term. Composed over a period of several years, the work and its central points were alluded to in speeches and written guidances given by Garcia in the latter years of his life, though its final collation was not released until some months after his passing.

Background
The latter half of the 20th century brought about a rapid development in various fields of industrial, consumer and military technology, including the rapid expansion of and the development of. Economists, philosophers and politicians in both the capitalist and socialist spheres reacted to these developments with equal parts excitement and trepidation, recognizing their transformative potential. For the socialist sphere in particular, the developments led to a renewed appraisal of socialist theory in line with the newly expanding tech economy, with some arguing that this new sector of economic development required a revision of socialist thinking from the traditional lines of agricultural and industrial economic output driven by an unskilled proletariat. Among those most enthusiastic about the developing tech economy was Cervera's Raul Garcia, who from 1955 began increasingly touting its benefits as part of a broader initiative of modernization begun with the Directivists' seizure of power in 1931.

Structure
The Technological Path to Socialism is laid out in a series of parts, beginning with an assessment of technological developments to present-day in Cervera and elsewhere and considering their impacts and shortfalls with regard to the relationship between the working classes and capital. It then reiterates that the ultimate goal of socialism is not only the elimination of the capitalist superstructure but also the general improvement in the quality of life of the proletariat, to be gained by seizure of the means of production; in particular it argues that the latter is the salient and most important point of any path to socialism. A polemic against "primitivist socialism" is included, before a conclusion envisioning a future "technologically socialist society" driven by evolved technology which can efficiently and rationally delegate resources on a national or even global scale.

The original 1963 edition contained the following table of contents: