Workers of the world...relax

[Gregory]

jks wrote:
>Given my druthers, I'd rather do social or legal
>philosophy than solve legal problems (whatever sort of problems might
demand
>my skills under your favored socialism). We still need incentives, positive
>and negative, to keep people's minds on their work. Otherewise, like you,
>they will be parasites and shirkers,a nd maybe proud of it.

Or are you just joking?
What is worse to be on the dole and be a parasite or do "social and legal
philosophy" while others, with "the proper incentives" are picking your
coffee beans, cutting your sugar canes and breaking their backs to get it
all to you.The abolition of work would mean a spreading around of all work
for everyone. Dishwasher philosphers and teaching garbagemen. What, don't
want to get your hands dirty?

"The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses
of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding
the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry. Already the
front against forced labour is being formed; its gestures of refusal are
moulding the consciousness of the future. Every call for productivity in the
conditions chosen by capitalist and Soviet economy is a call to slavery. "
Raoul Vaneigem, The Revolution of Everyday Life
Greg