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My fellow anti-workers. This sub needs to evolve.

This is just a proposal for you guys to consider. Although this sub serves some kind of purpose by showing solidarity between the working class and exposing the slave like conditions that are inherent to the capitalist system we live in. The popularity of this sub has brought a lot of new (sometimes uninformed) opinions that have limited the conversation to people complaining about their employers and talking about minimum wage and unionizing. That is all fine and well but prevents the community to seeing a future in which things are different. Now, I am not a socialist nor a communist (I lack enough reading for that), just plain anti-capitalist. But it would be great if we started discussing ideas instead of people/employers. I would love to see a thread discussing “The wealth of nations” or “Das Kapital” or any other work that people here deem worthy of discussion. Not…


This is just a proposal for you guys to consider.

Although this sub serves some kind of purpose by showing solidarity between the working class and exposing the slave like conditions that are inherent to the capitalist system we live in. The popularity of this sub has brought a lot of new (sometimes uninformed) opinions that have limited the conversation to people complaining about their employers and talking about minimum wage and unionizing. That is all fine and well but prevents the community to seeing a future in which things are different.

Now, I am not a socialist nor a communist (I lack enough reading for that), just plain anti-capitalist. But it would be great if we started discussing ideas instead of people/employers. I would love to see a thread discussing “The wealth of nations” or “Das Kapital” or any other work that people here deem worthy of discussion. Not only criticizing ideas but educating ourselves as a community. Not only talking about how our employer abuses us but actually trying to understand the systematic abuse that happens in the job and commodity markets.

The goal of the sub is to make antiwork an international force to be reckoned with. In order to do that we need to grow as a community of international class counsciousness. And a “reading list” in the FAQ section is not doing enough.

Because if you think the US is bad you are in for a horrible awakening on how the US and Northern countries (yes, even social democratic ones) exploit southern countries' land and habitants by “bringing them progress and democracy”. And if you think you can fix one without addressing the other then we're never getting anywhere. If we keep thinking that just “unionizing” is a long term solution then I think we already lost.

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