Who Does No Work, Shall Not Eat

Joe R. Golowka joeG at ieee.org
Fri Jan 18 21:07:29 PST 2002


----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com>
>
> 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?

Work is oppressive and it sucks doing it. No one should ever work if they don't want to; work should be abolished for all.



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