Re Who Does No Work, Shall Not Eat

Chuck Grimes cgrimes at rawbw.com
Sat Jan 19 08:52:15 PST 2002


``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?..'' jks

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What is prison?

I think you are missing something here, since this has all was allure of the gulag. The issue is re-defining social relations of production to re-define work, and fundamentally erase a working class entirely. And yes it's possible. What it takes though is almost impossible, and that is a serious depth of cooperation sustained for the very long haul---essentially turning society as whole into a different kind of culture.

Chuck Grimes



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