Date: Sun, 7 Dec 97 18:51:00 EST
From: boddhisatva <kbevans-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Re: M-FEM: All Work and No Play? No Way!






		Yoshie,


	You wrote "We must attack hegemonic ideas that say to the worker
class, "you don't deserve this, you are not entitled to that."  I could
not agree more.  What's more, I think that the current debate about the
work ethic (or lack thereof) among the working class indicates a necessary
change in thinking.  The idea of being "deserving" and being rewarded on
the basis of merit is in fact negated by capitalism itself, where one
receives on the basis of ownership or service to those who own.  Whether
capitalists are hard-working or lazy is moot, since they simply serve the
interests of owners.  Why then not accept this negation and avoid the
virtue debate that is already corrupted by the capitalist myth of
meritocracy.  Who cares how hard or faithfully a worker labors for his
slave-master?  To work is not to pray when it is in the service of Mammon. 
By the same token, the worker has no right to expect more than misery and
alienation if he works to make another person rich.  He has no right to
expect the state to provide for his welfare when that money just comes
from other workers.  Let the worker take what is hers - the means of
production.  Replace ownership with with "worker-ship" as a justification
for economic reward and socialism becomes socially rational.




	peace




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