I refuse to believe "communism is free time and nothing else". The manifest failure of bourgeois society is that "those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything do not work." To assume what comes after is "post-work" is a truly bourgeois fantasy.
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Replying to @anti_minotaur @miraculate
is this primarily a question of dignity? i.e. idea that work is uniquely degrading not inherently, but due to its positioning as "the thing you do if you aren't rich enough to avoid it"
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Replying to @wolicyponk @miraculate
or else the old joke about a capitalist parent looking at a garbageman and going "if you dont study that's where you'll end up" and a communist saying "you should be like that guy, working to keep our streets clean"
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Replying to @wolicyponk @miraculate
If you're asking what he's responding to, it's a specific position espoused, essentially, by one person and a small contingent of that person's followers https://therealmovement.wordpress.com
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Jehu bases his opposition to wage labor on an idiosyncratic reading of marx which reduces capitalism as a process to the sale of labor power. The critique is compelling and unsettling because it writes class struggle out of communist strategy
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