Sunday, October 23, 2016

Drudgery, Exploitation, Socialism

'Drudgery' encompasses a variety of tasks--sanitation, waste disposal, any toil in unpleasant circumstances, mechanical physical motions, etc.  Now, these are tasks that no one voluntarily performs.  But they are needed.  Thus, any Drudgery-class is one that is exploited, though, since Drudgery is non-productive, its Labor-value is zero, and, hence, can not be something the value of which is alienated from its source.  In other words, such exploitation is not adequately remedied by the collectivization of property.  Thus, if Socialism aims to rid society of class-exploitation more completely, the performance of Drudgery must be universally shared.

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