Very frequently [Left Ecomodernists] imagine a totally post-work world, creating the conditions for a new utopia: Fully Automated Luxury Communism…Geographer Matt Huber, for example, claims that… "Capitalism has produced the first society where the vast majority need not work in agriculture. A reversal of this is not politically possible or desirable." "[But!]…Agro-ecology is carbon-dioxide-absorbing, bio-diversity defending, and resilient in the face of climate change…In the entire peripheral world, smallholder agriculture is the basis for resistance to capitalism: by de-commodifying access to food, by closing off market opportunities for corporate sellers of agro-industrial inputs, by reclaiming land from export-oriented commodity crop production and giving it to poor people for accumulation from below, by increasing the embeddedness of national agricultural systems, and by creating larger internal markets that can form the basis of a sovereign industrialization." Author: Max Ajl holds a PhD in Development Sociology from Cornell University and works on the Tunisian national liberation movement and post-colonial development in the Arab world. [twitter.com/ajl_max](http://twitter.com/ajl_max)