Antiwork
Date Created: June 21, 2023
This community supports labor, with an aspiration for it to cease to be required to live our lives. Members of this community want to end work, are curious about ending work, want to get the most out of a work-free life, want more information on anti-work ideas and/or want personal help with their own jobs/work-related struggles.
Anti-Work Library 📚
Essential Reads
Start here! Some of the more talked-about essays on the topic.
- The Abolition of Work by Bob Black (1985) | listen
- On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber (2013) | listen
- In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell (1932) | listen
c/Antiwork Rules
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OP, this is a false equivalency. Your position doesn't lead to progress, IMO. In a two party system, you select the lesser of two evils and spend as many days as possible holding that lesser evil to account. The simplicity of the false equivalency you strike is only meant to provide some relief for yourself, because the proper path I outline above is fucking exhausting, but unfortunately necessary. If/when you say "It all sucks" you just wash your hands, feel above and move on.
If you don't agree with a two party system (I don't know anyone that enjoys this shit) then focus this wasted energy on advocating wholeheartedly for a better way to vote that allows for the participation of third parties, ranked choice or something of that path of thought. If any of the current third parties were serious or anything beyond vanity projects and active spoiler campaigns on behalf of bad actors (Stein) then they would do the same - instead of showing up every 4 years, tainting democracy and then not doing SHIT for the interim.
You need to do some reading. Ballot box socialism/ ballot box progress doesnt work. Those in power who use their wealth to simultaneously manipulate the democratic system and protect themselves from democracy always get the last say. The democratic party will always work to suppress working class ideals and thwart economic democracy. And neo liberal western democracy which purposefully excludes economic democracy by design is a class dictatorship. The system will not remedy itself through the mechanisms of the system which are all compromised by corruption. Revolution is now the only way to remedy the issues. Anyone saying otherwise is conditioned and brainwashed to accept their place within class dictatorship. Every political process of our system has been corrupted by money. To believe that our presidential elections still have integrity is delusional and naive. If the wealthy can use their wealth to compromise a system to achieve their goals they always will do so and then further use their wealth to obfuscate the truth. In germany their highest court ruled that electronic voting is unconstitutional because it is impossible to differentiate between fraudulent results and legitimate ones for anyone who isnt a cyber security/ IT expert. Both parties are fascist albeit one more so than the other but voting for the less fascist party in the hopes that we will be able to pressure an already compromised system towards progress is delusional. Instead of moving even A centemeter to the left what did the democratic party do this last election cycle!? They moved more to the right in an attempt to court republicans with endorsements from bush, cheney and any other wat mongering wall street puppet they could get to support them. There are 14 defining characteristics of fascism which can be simplified by understanding that fascism at its core is the amalgamation of corporate power and goverment/ military power. But of these 14 the only one trait that we can plausibly deny as being evident are fraudulent elections. But it is not just naive and delusional to believe that line hasn't been crossed yet because of democracy and American / western ideals, it is dumb and mathematically incorrect. If those in power would allow 93% of the fascist traits to coalesce they surely would not stop there. The one half truth that trump told was that our elections are rigged. But he had no issue when they were rigged in his favor in 2016 because he benefited from the corruption. Those in power meet in private and select who they want to puppet their class dictatorship for four years. They smear malign and sabotage anyone who challenges their illusory democracy and impose this regime by means of manufactured consent using their owned media outlets. If democracy functioned as you believe it does then we would have just wrapped up 2 terms of a bernie sanders administration and things would be a little better than they are. That was the compromise we were willing to make and those in power made it clear they were unwilling to listen to the people and allow that to happen so they used their corporate media to sabotage and manipulate the narrative and force the continuation of their broken status quo tepid neo liberal class dictatorship down our throats as has been the norm since kennedy was assassinated.
The democratic party is a right wing party. The two party system isnt even a real two party system because of this. Democrats are controlled opposition and ultimately they allow what is called the ratchet effect to happen. Any time a far right authoritarian regime is in power they push the lever as far right as they can and the democrats do nothing to move in the other direction and any image of an attempt to do so is just them pushing the lever against the pawls of a ratchet so that no meaningful movement to the left comes of it. Then they make excuses for their inefficiency and inept governing. Its would be a joke if it weren't obviously deliberate.