Wednesday, October 02, 2019
Socialist Standard Past & Present: Rear View: So far, so good (2019)
Socialist Standard Past & Present: Rear View: So far, so good (2019): The Rear View Column from the September 2019 issue of the Socialist Standard So far, so good Faiza Shaheen in an article titled Th...
Socialist Standard Past & Present: Not Changing the world (2019)
Socialist Standard Past & Present: Not Changing the world (2019): Book Review from the March 2019 issue of the Socialist Standard ‘ Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World ’. By An...
Socialist Standard Past & Present: Philanthrocapitalism IV: The Messianic Rich (2018)...
Socialist Standard Past & Present: Philanthrocapitalism IV: The Messianic Rich (2018)...: From the August 2018 issue of the Socialist Standard Part Three The concluding article of our series on ‘philanthrocapitalism’ ...
Socialist Standard Past & Present: Saving Capitalism (2018)
Socialist Standard Past & Present: Saving Capitalism (2018): From the May 2018 issue of the Socialist Standard We begin a four-part series on the ‘philanthrocapitalism’ of billionaires such as Bi...
Socialist Standard Past & Present: The Myth of the ‘Self-Made Man’ (2018)
Socialist Standard Past & Present: The Myth of the ‘Self-Made Man’ (2018): From the June 2018 issue of the Socialist Standard Part One Part two of our series on ‘philanthrocapitalism’ One explanation...
Socialist Standard Past & Present: Ecology and revolution (1991)
Socialist Standard Past & Present: Ecology and revolution (1991): From the April 1991 issue of the Socialist Standard The world ecological crisis is on such a scale that many workers believe environ...
Socialist Standard Past & Present: What Does The IWW mean by "Abolition of the Wage S...
Socialist Standard Past & Present: What Does The IWW mean by "Abolition of the Wage S...: "Instead of the conservative motto, "A fair day's wage for a fair day's work!" they ought to inscribe on their ban...
Socialist Standard Past & Present: Engels on Ecology (1991)
Socialist Standard Past & Present: Engels on Ecology (1991): From the April 1991 issue of the Socialist Standard "Let us not, however, flatter ourselves overmuch on account of our human co...
Socialist Standard Past & Present: Socialism v. Imperialism. (1923)
Socialist Standard Past & Present: Socialism v. Imperialism. (1923): From the February 1923 issue of the Socialist Standard What is the Socialist view of the Empire? What attitude would a revolutionary a...
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
ABOLISH WORK; ABOLISH THE WAGES SYSTEM IS THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE
Eliminating commodities implies abolishing work and
replacing it with a new type of free activity, thereby ending one of modern
society's fundamental splits, the one between increasingly reified labor and
passively consumed leisure activity. Groups in the process of decomposition although
supporting the modern principle of Workers' Power, continue to follow the path
of the old workers movement on the central matter of trying to reform and
"humanize" work. Today, work itself must be attacked. Far from being
"Utopian," the abolition of work is the primary requirement for
effectively superseding commodity society, for eliminating in each person's
daily life the separation between "free time" and "work
time"—those reciprocal sectors of an alienated life—that is the perpetual
expression of the commodity's intrinsic contradiction between use-value and
exchange-value. Only when this opposition is overcome will people be able to
create out of their human activity something that results from desire and
consciousness and to see themselves reflected in a world that they themselves
have created. The democracy of workers councils provides the solution to all
the separations of today. It makes "impossible everything that exists
outside of individuals."
SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL (SI)
Sep 18, 2006 - they ought to inscribe on their banner the revolutionary watchword, "Abolition of the wages system!" (Quote from Karl Marx's Value, Price and ...
The abolition of wage labour means the abolition of production for the sake of production. The Marxist critique of bourgeois society is essentially the critique of wage labour. ... Wage labour can only be generalised if the majority of the population has no means of production and, in general, no property at its disposal.
... on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the means of production, abolish the wage system, and live in harmony with the Earth.
Jan 9, 2019 - Taylor died in 1915, and by 1913 the Ford system reduced the production time on the Model T chassis assembly line from 12.5 hours to 1.5 ...
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