I’m surprised this movement still goes by AntiWork after being ripped apart on live television by an absolute hack.
I’m unsure what the message is here too. Is it “work together to minimize required work efforts” or just “straight up everyone stop working”? Why is workers uniting implied to be bad here? I understand stop working for striking purposes like nurses striking for better pay/working conditions, but I fundamentally disagree if the goal is get nurses to stop working on treating the sick for no other purpose than work sucks.
The moniker Antiwork is not very clear sometimes where the movement stands.
The anti-work movement goes back more than two hundred years. What is one hack to more than two centuries of proletarian anti-work struggles?
Does this include teachers, water treatment workers, bin collectors, nurses, doctors, nuclear power plant workers, firemen, train and bus drivers, care and social workers?
Are art handlers/gallery technicians allowed to stop working, or do they still have to work to install canvases about not working onto gallery walls?
For the abolition of work. Yes really, abolish work! Not "reform work" but the destruction of work as a separate field of human activity.
To save the world, we're going to have to stop working! — David Graeber
A strange delusion possesses the working classes of the nations where capitalist civilization holds its sway. ...the love of work... Instead of opposing this mental aberration, the priests, the economists, and the moralists have cast a sacred halo over work. — Paul Lafargue
In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic. — Karl Marx
In the glorification of 'work', in the unwearied talk of the 'blessing of work', I see the same covert idea as in the praise of useful impersonal actions: that of fear of everything individual. — Friedrich Nietzsche
If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves. — Lane Kirkland
The bottom line is simple: all of us deserve to make the most of our potential as we see fit, to be the masters of our own destinies. Being forced to sell these things away to survive is tragic and humiliating. We don’t have to live like this. ― CrimethInc
