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Today, I wanted to discuss a few alternatives to our modern day experience of work. To be absolutely clear, in my and other, smarter, peoples’s interpretation of what work would entail and could look in a post-capitalist, communist future none of the alternative ideas really hit the nail on the head. That discussion is utterly rooted in science fiction and a lot of political theory, however, that I will leave that talk for another day. Let’s face it. A successful Communist revolution in our lifetime, here, is more than unlikely, but, that does on the one hand not mean that we can change the bullshit we have to endure to move a long a socialist track towards that common goal, and secondly, forget that none of these “realities” are nothing but Capitalist ideas sold as unshakeable truth. That they are absolutely not.
With that we are going to chat about existing alternatives to the modern day, exploitative, patriarchal, hierarchical structure and reality of how the majority of us have to experience work, which ones are preferable, their relationships and Marxist viewpoints on them. These ideas and alternatives aren’t necessarily new and in more places than most of us they already exist. They, roughly, are :
Participatory Management, Workplace Democracy and Cooperatives.
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