What's something engineers and labor unions have in common Bucking the stigma and reframing "laziness" as a virtue rather than a vice Every damn improvement in our lives whether through technology or policy comes from someone recognizing work sucks and not wanting to do it
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Orwell brutally mocked "workerism" in Animal Farm and how it's a fucking fundamental contradiction with what socialism was supposed to be for In the Stalinist Animal Farm Boxer the plowhorse works HARDER than he ever worked for the humans, until he DIES ("I will work harder!")
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And the pigs have the fucking nerve to applaud him for dying finally free, with the dignity of working for the good of his own kind, before sending him to the glue factory the same way the humans would It's the most fucking accurate burn in the whole book
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The incredible repulsive perversity of the Great Leap Forward pushing peasant farmers to work HARDER THAN THEY EVER HAD BEFORE ("We can double the harvest if we all sacrifice!") "It's different because now they're working for THEMSELVES and not a landlord"
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1) If I have to give the harvest to someone else and I don't get to keep it then of course I'm not "working for myself", and it doesn't matter whether the guy calls himself a "cadre leader" or a "landlord" 2) If a workers' revolution ends in doing more work, it is a scam
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We can argue about what changed and didn't change from Maoism to Dengism but by the basic standard of "How much work do people have to do?" the People's Republic of China has always been a fucking scam
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What's disgusting about the OP's tweet is that this ISN'T a stereotype of communist countries and it's the exact opposite Communist countries SHOULD be stereotyped as countries for lazy people who don't want to work That's the whole goddamn idea
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That's the promise they make, that's what they ought to be selling, if you could actually offer that everyone would want to go there Instead the stereotype was CAPITALIST countries were for lazy fat slobs and communism was for patriotic good citizens who "take pride in work"
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God what a fucking fundamental betrayal The fact that in Stalin's USSR it was strongly encouraged to snitch on your fellow workers if you thought they were a "wrecker" or a "shirker" or a "hoarder" and weren't sacrificing for the country hard enough Fuck that shit
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The most infuriating brand of leftism I see seems to know this but not understand the problem with it? I see armies of leftists who think after the revolution everyone will just make oil paintings in a cottage and also everyone will have food and healthcare somehow.
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I mean, have you looked at the us? Or the refugee camps in europe? The healthcare there seems non existent allready
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