Against Work?
Or Just Fucking Lazy?
Yes, we all know that work sucks. Every wage-slave has experienced the drudgery of repeating menial tasks, producing things for which we have no use, being ordered around by an asshole boss, or being expected to provide friendly customer service to a bunch of ungrateful jerks who act like you were born to serve them. Work sucks because it forces us into an alienated situation where we must perform a specialized role, one which we would never perform under normal circumstances, and which we have no control over-- all so that the lifeless capitalist machine of commodity production and exchange can continue rolling forward. Meanwhile our humanity is lost and our lives are wasted-- just so that a few jerks can get rich.
But what’s the alternative? In a state-less and class-less society we would still have to do things like grow and gather food, make tools, build and maintain dwellings, sew clothes, and countless other tasks. While the passionate sense of creativity and communal spirit surrounding such efforts would provide feelings of pleasure and fulfillment nonexistent under the current system, no world could ever be perfect, and there would still be some times when we would feel tired out. Likewise, in order to make the revolution necessary to create the world we so longingly desire, we must at times do things we may not necessarily enjoy doing-- like spending hours in front of a copying machine or putting our bodies in dangerous situations where we may risk being beaten, arrested, or killed.
It’s easy to let this cruel world get us down. None of us are strangers to feelings of depression and despair. But dwelling on such feelings will only ensure that this sick society continues to perpetuate itself. We won’t win the revolution by lying in bed. So let’s get off our asses and start to create the world we want to live in!
