“ work and employment are not neutral. work reproduces work’s social relationships. a person’s activity is productive only if it can be sold. if it can’t be sold it has no ‘worth’, nor do we. it is sometimes argued that employment would be okay if work was pleasurable but it isn’t. why? industrialists discovered it was easier to control a machine than a person and easiest of all to control people by subjugating them to a machine. the technology of production has been systematically applied to de-skill and make workers docile. this is being repeated in the process of consumption where we compulsively consume, but only what we are fed and for a clever reason: to balance production and consumption… employment is seen as a socialising force, which no one should escape, and places where there is no work are feared as commodity-free deserts populated by junkies, criminals and deviants. dehumanized and alienated, we face a future in which technology and the operation of society will be used to produce what the founders of modern industry wanted all along - weak people, easily controlled. alongside this degradation, rationalization and intensification of work causes massive amounts of illness, mental aberration and stress. these will inevitability increase as modern technologies compel greater
productivity from workers. The fetishisation of work and consumption has a crushing effect on our minds and bodies when we become unemployed and cannot buy things. Forced to work, forced to consume, we are trapped in a system in which inequality and social division persist because the hierarchy of labour creates a socially destructive hierarchy.
productivity from workers. The fetishisation of work and consumption has a crushing effect on our minds and bodies when we become unemployed and cannot buy things. Forced to work, forced to consume, we are trapped in a system in which inequality and social division persist because the hierarchy of labour creates a socially destructive hierarchy.
ACE #6 - THE ROLE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY ORGANISATION
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