Who Does No Work, Shall Not Eat

Chuck0 chuck at tao.ca
Sun Jan 20 18:36:23 PST 2002


Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> Joe R. Golowka wrote:
>
> >Your'e falsley equating food production with work. You can produce things
> >without doing work. I do it all the time.
>
> Eh? Planting, harvesting, processing, cooking - these aren't work?
> Are we speaking the same language?

Nope. These aren't examples of alienated labor. They also are basic life-sustaining practices that don't have to involve wage slavery.

These are examples of work that are essential to living. Wokring in a cubicle for a wage is an example of WORK (aka wage slavery). Office work is never empowering or nonalienating, despite the well conditioned robots who say that they love their jobs.

<< Chuck0 >>

Infoshop.org -> http://www.infoshop.org/ Alternative Press Review -> http://www.altpr.org/ Practical Anarchy Online -> http://www.practicalanarchy.org/ Anarchy: AJODA -> http://www.anarchymag.org/ MutualAid.org -> http://www.mutualaid.org/ Factsheet 5 -> http://www.factsheet5.org/ AIM: AgentHelloKitty

Web publishing and services for your nonprofit: Bread and Roses Web Publishing http://www.breadandrosesweb.org/

INTERNATIONALISM IN PRACTICE

An American soldier in a hospital explained how he was wounded: He said, "I was told that the way to tell a hostile Vietnamese from a friendly Vietnamese was to shout ‘To hell with Ho Chi Minh!’ If he shoots, he’s unfriendly. So I saw this dude and yelled ‘To hell with Ho Chi Minh!’ and he yelled back, ‘To hell with President Johnson!’ We were shaking hands when a truck hit us."

(from 1,001 Ways to Beat the Draft, by Tuli Kupferburg).



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list