>At 05:31 PM 01/18/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>>Dave and I
>>think that it is politically necessary and morally right to require those
>>who are able to work to do so.
>
>"Politically necessary"? "Morally right"?
>
>WHose politics and whose morality? Please elaborate. There's a brand of
>puritanism that wears a Marxist face.
Well,I'm a hedonist, and no puritan. But the points are pretty simple. It's
politically necessary because working people will resent supporting those
whom they consider shirkers and parasites, and that will undermine the
solidarity necessary for a socialist project. It'[s morally right because no
one has a right to live off the labor of others without contributing
something in return. The Bolsies reappropraited the slogan, Who does no
work, will not eat. Leaving aside those who can't wprk, what's wrong with
that?
>
>What if there's no work to be done?
What if pigs had wings? We don'y live in those possible worlds.
jks
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