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Labor Needs New Definitions

I’m excited to see what you can come up with… Language is important. The way we talk about our relationship to those who own us is crucial. An example: employer implies that laborers (the employed) are being given something (employment), and not the other way around. Laborers are giving to the ‘labor owners’ who take what we produce, and give us crumbs in return. They are not employers, they are ‘wage thieves’ ‘labor owners’ etc. Words/terms like company, corporation, job, manager, CEO, non-profit, all have been defined by our owners. We need to construct new language. We need language that suits our context, so while there is value to language used by Marx and other theorists, we need it to be contemporary… TAKE THE POWER BACK


I’m excited to see what you can come up with…

Language is important. The way we talk about our relationship to those who own us is crucial.

An example: employer implies that laborers (the employed) are being given something (employment), and not the other way around. Laborers are giving to the ‘labor owners’ who take what we produce, and give us crumbs in return. They are not employers, they are ‘wage thieves’ ‘labor owners’ etc.

Words/terms like company, corporation, job, manager, CEO, non-profit, all have been defined by our owners. We need to construct new language.

We need language that suits our context, so while there is value to language used by Marx and other theorists, we need it to be contemporary…

TAKE THE POWER BACK

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