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| Question 90: Is it a character flaw to be lazy in an exploitive system? |
| [56] AJoseph: The Workers' Slow Down. It depends on the circumstances. One where it would not be, Marx's quote in 129:2 alludes to an ideological basis for the classic Workers' Slow Down, where pretend laziness can help workers get a larger share of the profit for the work that they do. |
| One may also think of chattel slaves injuring themselves or breaking tools on purpose, or conscripted soldiers shooting themselves in the foot on the way to a battle at this point. |
| Hans: You started on the right foot, but much more can be said here. Perhaps those who are truly lazy are also protesting, but in a self-punitive way? Perhaps they are opposed to capitalism but then blame themselves for it rather than the system, just like the many gay people who are homophobic at the same time? |
| AJoseph: Thank you, yes, I suppose I took the examples to the extreme. Shortly after posting this regretted not having read Marx's son in law's “The Right to Be Lazy,” to be able to cite it for more perspective a moderate form of laziness. |
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