>Michael Pugliese wrote:
>
>>Was it Bakunin or Proudhon who said that after the revo. (well it's a
>>continuous, permanent revolutionizing but, y'all get my point...) that
>>children would pick up the garbage since they love to play in the dirt?
>
>It was Charles Fourier.
>
>"Two thirds of all boys have a penchant for filth. They love to
>wallow in the mire and play with dirty things. . . . . These children will
>enroll in the Little Hordes whose task is to perform, dauntlessly and
>as a point of honor, all those loathsome tasks that ordinary workers
>would find debasing.. In>
>-- "The Utopian Vision of Charles Fourier", eds. Beecher and
>Bienvenu, pp.317-8.
>
>It was passages like this that Marx was thinking of, I take it, when
>he wrote against Fourier's belief that "labour can be made merely a
>joke", and noted that "really free labour, the composing of music for
>example, is at the same time damned serious and demands the greatest
>effort". (McLellan ed, p.124).
>
>Chris
Right. As as a parent of kids who loveto play in thedirt but not to clean up, I can testify that Fourier had no idea what he was talking about. Just try to get them to take out the garbage! If you suceed, tell me how. jks
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