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So Darell, will you be happily going down shaft 12 of Rio Tinto's new copper mine in Alaska ? Will you be engaging in healthy and recreational labour, harvesting the corn of the Mid-West ? Would you have ENJOYED working night-shifts on the Kazakhstan Agricultural Extension Program in the Soviet Union in the 60s ? Which begs the essential question : who is to perform all this salutary labour ? Who is to work the harvester for thousands of acres until they go blind ? Who is to fill their lungs with dust ? Who is to destroy their dorsal muscles carrying heavy loads ? What's wrong with full automation ? And why are you so worried about a Marxist society forgetting how necessary and healthy labour is ? Would such people, living in a free association of workers, become lazy and indolent ? So they need a "boss" then, someone to put them to work, but then that would be a contradiction. The bourgeois compulsion to see people at work is not a serious reflection on the healthiness of hard labour. Marx's anthropology of labour, Man being both an agent ON nature and a part OF nature, does not preclude automation. Quite the opposite in fact. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
