Who Does No Work, Shall Not Eat

Justin Schwartz jkschw at hotmail.com
Fri Jan 18 21:17:24 PST 2002



>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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