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Simply saying we should improve the quality and reduce the duration of work doesn’t allow us to ask whether that work needs to exist at all.
Simply saying we should improve the quality and reduce the duration of work doesn’t allow us to ask whether that work needs to exist at all.
Why Marx loved work — and we should, too.
The basic vision of the post-work left is one of fewer jobs and shorter hours.
Work in a capitalist society is a conflicted and contradictory phenomenon.
The one-sided focus of most socialists on distributional questions has obscured the fact that the animating principle of the Left is not so much equality, but freedom.