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> Our goal should absolutely be to eliminate the necessity of work ... You've whole-heartedly bought into Capital's propaganda. It is not just capitalism that
by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
> Our goal should absolutely be to eliminate the necessity of work ... You've whole-heartedly bought into Capital's propaganda.
It is not just capitalism that demands hard work but even some challenges to capitalism. I am again reminded of a bit of 1960s Maoist literature translated from Chinese into English that I once found in a Chinatown bookshop: in discussing the Peking Man fossil, it claimed that what set Man apart from his ape forebears was that he had the capacity to labor. Those who did not wish to dedicate their lives to labor, the book claimed, were reverting to primitive ways.
- OkayPhysicist 3y agoIt's safe to say the average HN reader has been exposed to more Capitalist propaganda than ML/Maoist propaganda, but it is a good point. Harping on the virtue of work is a pretty common motif between authoritarian regimes of all manner of political ideology. It's an easy way to make people do what you want them to.