Drudgery and Collectivization

One social "necessity" not addressed by Plato in the Republic is that of the performance of what can be called 'drudgery'--the disposal of waste products, repetitive tasks, strenuous physical exertion, etc. Over the millennia, drudgery has been assigned to enslaved, indentured, or menial though nominally 'free' classes, and typically ignored by theorists, who tend to do no more than vaguely attempt to justify such stratification on the basis of some inadequately conceived 'natural' differences. Marx, too, despite the standard gloss of it as 'egalitarian', seems to advocate a hierarchy in his "From each according to his abilities" principle, which, on the face of it, entails the assignation of drudgery to those with inferior ability. However, that subsumption ignores the metamorphosis of the general social context to one determined by the collectivization of the means of production, which concomitantly transforms drudgery to a labor of love, derived from pride of ownership. In other words, one of the essential features of drudgery is that its performer does not own their labor, to which Marxism offers a remedy.