the "abolish all work!" crowd is full of a lot of the same people who say there should be no jails or police of any kind after the revolution & wow what a combination that would be
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why would crime, counter-revolution, or the need to produce & distribute what we need suddenly go away? also, much of the infrastructure we have is built upon the empire & its spoils, a situation which cannot continue under socialism
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Simple: we are supposed to expropriate the means of production, not destroy them. Most work under capitalism is unnecessary, so even if full automation is not achieved under socialism, working hours should be drastically cut. Marx wasn't a luddite.
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Most crime under capitalism either shouldn't be a crime in the first place or is done out of desperation due to capitalism. The few anti-social individuals shouldn't be thrown in a penal system, since punitive measures are not rehabilitive. They should be educated, not punished.
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Police were invented to capture slaves, they're necessary to the state. There are other ways of protecting community without utilizing a police force. The point of socialism is to abolish the state and capitalism.
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So you’ll have to assemble a new “force” of people who work to protect communities and to collect the anti-social individuals and take them to a place to separate and educate them... so the same amount of work will have to be done
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The work doesn’t go away when you call it by a different name or make it less exploitative and more useful
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To be fair, a lot of current work is useless or even counterproductive to society, so yes you could reduce work hours by redirecting those people into useful jobs.
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But if you couple that with treating all workers fairly and not exploiting foreign labor, the need for labor would go way up... the only way for it to be all leisure is to keep the empire
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