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We do know that one of the core texts of r/Antiwork is Anti-Capitalist AND Anti-Communist right?

TL;DR: Communism, while arguably better than Capitalism, isn't even kind of Antiwork. Quote from “The Abolition of Work” by Bob Black: The dynamic of domination intrinsic to work tends over time toward elaboration. In advanced work-riddled societies, including all industrial societies whether capitalist or “communist,” work invariably acquires other attributes which accentuate its obnoxiousness. Usually – and this is even more true in “communist” than capitalist countries, where the state is almost the only employer and everyone is an employee – work is employment, i.e., wage-labor, which means selling yourself on the installment plan. Thus 95% of Americans who work, work for somebody (or something) else. In the USSR or Cuba or Yugoslavia or Nicaragua or any other alternative model which might be adduced, the corresponding figure approaches 100%. Only the embattled Third World peasant bastions – Mexico, India, Brazil, Turkey – temporarily shelter significant concentrations of agriculturists who perpetuate…


TL;DR: Communism, while arguably better than Capitalism, isn't even kind of Antiwork.

Quote from “The Abolition of Work” by Bob Black:

The dynamic of domination intrinsic to work tends over time toward elaboration. In advanced work-riddled societies, including all industrial societies whether capitalist or “communist,” work invariably acquires other attributes which accentuate its obnoxiousness. Usually – and this is even more true in “communist” than capitalist countries, where the state is almost the only employer and everyone is an employee – work is employment, i.e., wage-labor, which means selling yourself on the installment plan.

Thus 95% of Americans who work, work for somebody (or something) else. In the USSR or Cuba or Yugoslavia or Nicaragua or any other alternative model which might be adduced, the corresponding figure approaches 100%. Only the embattled Third World peasant bastions – Mexico, India, Brazil, Turkey – temporarily shelter significant concentrations of agriculturists who perpetuate the traditional arrangement of most laborers in the last several millennia, the payment of taxes (ransom) to the state or rent to parasitic landlords in return for being otherwise left alone. Even this raw deal is beginning to look good. All industrial (and office) workers are employees and under the sort of surveillance which ensures servility.

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