Who Does No Work, Shall Not Eat

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Jan 20 13:15:59 PST 2002


Chuck0 wrote:


>Otherwise, you still have a system where people are forced to work.
>
>Capitalist gun to your head or socialist one? Choose neither.

Here's where I have to part company with anarchism, as charming as I find a lot of it. Sometimes it just seems like an infantile "No!" inflated to the level of a political philosophy. We have to work because if we don't we die. People who don't work are living off the work of others, one way or another. Of course, human societies have a lot of choices about how they arrange the work, and how much compulsion is involved, but it's not just a boss, capitalist or commissar, who forces us to work.

Doug



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