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 ...
