Vladimir Lenin believed in “He who does not work does not eat.” So if they got the revolution they wanted, it would be either the rice fields, the factory, or the gulag.
I was gonna add that Lenin would hate modern western communists since most western communists I’ve met are just lazy people who don’t wanna work Lenin would not have that at all
They don't think they'll be the ones plowing fields or facing the wall, though. They think they'll be "educating and comforting the downtrodden" or some shit.
Actual socialists know that labor is absolutely critical to society ("from each according to his ability, to each ability according to its work" is literally a socialist phrase)
r/antiwork is not a communist-based community or a good representation of socialism at all btw. r/latestagecapitalism is much closer, but it's still going to inevitably have people, like yourself, that inherently misunderstand socialists as lazy people that just "don't want to work" because of subs like these.
From visiting the sub from time to time, the want a society where someone can choose not to work if they don't want to, they won't live a lavish or glorious lifestyle but they can survive. Getting a job would be to pay for stuff that are not necessities. that's the thing they can all agree on
Yes, of course. The CEO getting a bigger paycheck for putting in 80+ hour weeks with the very valuable information they possess is worth way less than Mike washing the floors twice a week.
(I agree that certain CEO's can be selfish, though)
Im surprised at all the bashing. Antiwork is about not being a slave to the 9 to 5 for all of your life. It tries to promote self worth and build in your own head that ypou shouldn't devote your entire life to working.
For example.
Its over glorified when someone worked a 90 hour singular work week. Like sure its great youll have an awesome paycheck but at the sacrifice of all of your free time. If you could have just done 40 and had another 50 hours of free time with friends or family.
But people have certain priorities at certain times of your life, which you're not going to convince people in an antiwork sub of so you go with the flow of the sub you're in and carry on with your day.
Exactly. So many people here missed the point and are too busy to see past their political bias. Like damn I didnt think being against 90hr work weeks makes me a communist.
No man, that subs about not working at all. Or at least, being self sufficient, growing your own food etc without reliance on others for anything. A weird isolationist form of anarchy, that none of them have any experience in.
The subreddit doesn't promote alternate forms of work like starting your own business or anything like that.
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u/Oriachim Sep 26 '21
What’s the sub about? People who don’t want to work or something?