Menial Labor

Political Philosophies tend to be the products of abstract inspirational Beauty, which might be why they have traditionally slighted one perennial social problem, namely, how menial labor is to be performed. Hence, Aristotelian Aristocracy is impossible without slavery, the lower classes of Theocracies and Monarchies reflect either a 'divine' will, or a 'natural' ordering, and in Capitalism, the 'losers', as determined by the 'Invisible Hand of the Market', usually have little choice but to accept drudgery in exchange for subsistence. Perhaps, automation will one day solve the problem, but in the meantime Marxism tackles one aspect of it head on, namely, by attempting to eliminate the meniality from menial labor. Marx' psychological thesis is that labor becomes menial only when performed for someone else, that e. g. cleaning up after oneself is, except among the lazy, never construed as burdensome. So, one of the aims of Socialism is to transform the nature of labor by having all tasks concern the self-interest of each, i. e. as pertaining to something they themselves own. A complement to that notion is a system of a rotation of chores, as is often in effect in many cooperative enterprises, a step in the direction of which might be a mandatory 'National Service', currently being entertained by some American politicians. Along with mandatory voting, the latter would be an Evolvemental developmental in American public life.