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Freedom for real work

Posted by: GERARD ( Socialists, N.Ireland ) on January 06, 1998 at 19:03:34:

In Reply to: Freedom to work or not to work posted by Walter Prytulak on December 31, 1997 at 16:53:29:

Welcome to the world Friend.

What you are saying is basically right but I think you are dismissing marxism, socialism, anarchism etc. all to soon. These ideologies all contain references to or support in some way shape or form what your saying.

Way back when I first logged on I signed on as a multi-tendency socialist which basically meant that I took the best of all the ideologies and chucked the rest. That is what I think you maybe advocating.

Marx said rightly that capitalism in its creation of new markets to sustain itself capitalism creates new work. If real freedom (call it what you will socialism, communism or anarchy) was realised the amount of necessary work would be greatly reduced. Like if you work to sustain yourselves why work at all for a foriegn market or to create garbage like 20 different detergents?

These are tired arguements I'll agree and we can all be dogmatic but concenses is important.




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