Petty bourgeois lifestylism
Title: The Abolition of Work
Jeremiah Cruz
Jack King
What is really the point of abolition of work?
Sit on your ass, collect welfare and wait for capitalism to crash?
Communism is about the ascension of labour. Anyone who does not labour does not eat.
Parker Ward
Don't conflate post-leftists and those of us who want to shorten the working day. 8 hour work day is obsolete. We could work 4-6 hours a day and be just as productive.
Owen Jones
Productivity is not the goal, it's necessity within a planned, democratic economy. Emphasis on productivity is just a consumerist conspiracy isn't it? Post-scarcity is possible if we're not overproducting, and recycling.
Samuel Morris
labour is not the same thing as work, work is paid labour, exploited labour.
Julian Brown
no its not
Andrew Cox
I think it comes from a confusion in translation. A lot of times when Marx uses “Aufheben” it is translated to “abolish”. For instance, in the German Ideology Marx says It is not a matter of freeing labour but rather of abolishing it.” But he uses the word Aufheben, which actually has a triple meaning.
So in other words, labor is not necessarily abolished but rather sublated in the Communist mode of production. The activity of work remains but no longer in its alienated form.
Michael Fisher
work is the exercise of your own exploitation you have to do to survive. We call the rest of our life our "free time". You can still put labour into free activities like video games or volunteering, but they don't carry the same materialistic properties as work does. Maybe I am mistaken. What is the definition of "work" and "labour"?
Charles Sullivan
please learn words and not create your own definitions
Jose White
Black and a few people around him back in the day are literally the post-left. wtf r u talking about?
He snitched on a dope dealer afaik. Why should i shed a tear for them? Junk dealers get the bullet, too.