It is practically universal, almost all of those who have to do it, hate it, if not at first, in time they begin to hate it, as it eventually grinds them down. Usually those who don't have to do it, the rich and privileged of this society, will praise it, and denigrate those among the poor who don't do it, whether it is by their own desire or otherwise. I am of course talking about work.
It was Paul Lafargue, Marx's son-in-law, and author of "The right to be lazy" who wrote:
...not to
demand the Right to Work which is but the right to misery, but to forge a
brazen law forbidding any man to work more than three hours a day, the
earth, the old earth, trembling with joy would feel a new universe
leaping within her.
Why do we do it? An interesting article from Void Mirror:
All must work! Declares the cabinet of millionaires. 'Workers not shirkers!, they implore. 'Strivers not skivers!' The divide and rule rhetoric trying to pit those in work against those without is as relentless as it is transparent. But what's so good about work anyway?
Read the full article HERE:Junge Linke's short piece skewers how attempts to mobilise resentment of claimants and the unemployed undermine even those in work who aren't claiming benefits. What I'd like to focus on is two perspectives on what an explicitly anti-work politics might look like.
