[lbo-talk] Beyond Growth or Beyond Capitalism?

Charles Brown cb31450 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 18 03:14:11 PST 2014


from each according to ability; to each according to need

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
> Well, people need to be engaged in creating their lives, and that involves
> work.
>
> I don't know that I'd call that "full employment," but still, work is a real
> issue.
>
> ========
>
> Full Employment has nothing to do with work or the need for work. It makes
> sense only on the irrational basis that isolated inndividuals must labor or
> starve.
>
> Production does not depend on everyone being engaged in paid employment.
>
> Prior to about 12000 BP no one worked, but people got along fine for some
> 200 thousand years.
>
> Carrol
>
>
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