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as someone who has problems with anxiety, lack of focus, and executive dysfunction, and as someone who knows a lot of physically disabled people, the labor-focused rhetoric of much of communist thought makes me nervous
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@typhlosion OH THANK FUCKING GOD I'm not the only one. Marx's earlier work had a joyful humanistic vibe, but as he aged he got more and more obsessed with work and productivity. There are MUCH better leftist philosophers to look at, if you want something humane and genuinely concerns about quality of life. (I recommend Erich Fromm, if you can get past some period-normal homophobia and Theodore Roszak, if you can get over some touchingly naive hippie-era sentiments about science and technology... Also, you might like Paul Lafargue's The Right To Be Lazy.)
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@typhlosion Also, while i have a possibly sympathetic ear...
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@typhlosion i feel like part of the point of communism is that everyone gets the same benefits, everyone deserves to have their needs met, regardless of how much labor they do
also it's important that people do non-physical labor too, like making art and being there for people
we're not. really. that knowledgeable about the terminology stuff though
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@melissasage @typhlosion Nobody ever mentions that fact in school, though....
weeeeeird
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@typhlosion IMO any Communist who doesn't take "From each according to their ability, to each according to their need" EXTREMELY seriously has missed Several Points About Communism
Like, yeah, I think work/labour/however you want to phrase it is inherently good for humanity to do and I don't think Literally Everything should be automated
But also people who can't work should not be forced to and they should still be taken care of just as well as everyone else
That's the whole point