--- On Sat, 4/19/08, Charles Brown <charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us> wrote:
> From: Charles Brown <charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] To each according to work
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Saturday, April 19, 2008, 10:29 AM
> >>> andie nachgeborenen
> and in fact in soime sense measure. contribution, on a
> roughly
> quantitative comparative scale, is going to be rife with
> opportunities
> for exploitation and indeed will be unstable as
> those exploited by others they feel to be goofoofs
> benefitingf at
> their expense slack off on necesswary labor.
>
> ^^^
>
> CB: Indeed , and the number one group that is living
> off of the surplus labor of others , the biggest
> freeloaders, are the ruling class, the rich, the
> exploiters. Historically, there has been a significant
> correlation between predominantly mental labor
> ( like reading books by Horace or Thucididyes, or
> Hobbes or reciting priestly tales) and living off of the
> surplus product of others, and between predominantly
> physical labor and having your surplus product taken,
> not enjoying all the fruits of one's labor.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> This claim embodies some unpleasant but true assumptions
> about human
> nature than we may transcend someday, but we deal with the
> new society
> as it emerges from the womb of the old, c'est ne pas? I
> know I will be
> damned as a captive of the old Puritan Protestant Jewish
> worj ethic,
> someone who doesn't realize that policing (I use the
> word deliberately)
> contribution is a bad part of bourgeouis society that will
> be
> transcended in a better world, that there will be few
> slackers because
> enough people will just love to do the dirty and dangerous
> work while
> othersenjoy themselves, and that assigning tasks among
> workers will be a
> matter of autonomnous agreement ratherthan labor
> management. Hooey.
>
>
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