Abolishing work means living by the anarchist principle: “from each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs”. By sharing labor and resources equally, there is no “work” involved for anyone. We could participate in activities a few hours (<10h) a week to feed, house and heal everyone.
Work is the institution and structures in society, based on christian morality that we have to suffer in this life. It’s the structure that ensures tons of people are employed for useless or “bullshit jobs” (see david graeber), and that the more useless your job is the higher you get paid… or put another way, the harder you work the less you get paid.
Work only makes sense in a society based on competition and private property (and money). In a cooperative society, there’s stuff to be done to address our needs, and we ensure it’s done. There is no “work” as we know it with managers and timetables and…
This quote is often attributed to Marx, but it was already a cliché in communist circles at the time it was written down (at least according to Wikipedia). And as @poVoq@lemmy.ml pointed out, communism used to be more or less equal to anarchism, before some people started this “dictatorship of the proletariat” nonsense :)
Abolishing work means living by the anarchist principle: “from each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs”. By sharing labor and resources equally, there is no “work” involved for anyone. We could participate in activities a few hours (<10h) a week to feed, house and heal everyone.
Work is the institution and structures in society, based on christian morality that we have to suffer in this life. It’s the structure that ensures tons of people are employed for useless or “bullshit jobs” (see david graeber), and that the more useless your job is the higher you get paid… or put another way, the harder you work the less you get paid.
Work only makes sense in a society based on competition and private property (and money). In a cooperative society, there’s stuff to be done to address our needs, and we ensure it’s done. There is no “work” as we know it with managers and timetables and…
That phrase is marxist, though, not anarchist, or at the bare minimum it’s communist.
This quote is often attributed to Marx, but it was already a cliché in communist circles at the time it was written down (at least according to Wikipedia). And as @poVoq@lemmy.ml pointed out, communism used to be more or less equal to anarchism, before some people started this “dictatorship of the proletariat” nonsense :)