Beyond the Work Ethic (was Re: Christian love)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>  > With the level of productive forces already developed under centuries
>>  of capitalism, it's about time to move onto socialism without
>>  workerism.  What was necessary in the early twentieth century should
>>  not be as necessary today.
>>
>>  Yoshie
>=======
>Exactly. The quotes come from Karl Widerquist's excellent essay
>"Reciprocity and the Guaranteed Income" [Politics and Society,  vol.
>27 # 3, Sept. '99]. He really dismantles the whole history of the
>above "ethic".
>
>Ian

To move forward to the socialist world beyond the work ethic, 
leftists need to let go of their increasing fondness for Luddism, 
primitivism, "small is beautiful," etc.

Yoshie