Marxism, Work, Leisure

The status of Work in Marxism is unclear.  On the one hand, Labor is the source of all Value, and each is expected to contribute according their ability.  On the other hand, many passages treat Technology as making Labor obsolete.  Now, a different determination of that status is suggested by Dewey.  He conceives the fundamental Class distinction to be between the Working and Leisure Classes, analogous to the distinction between Means and Ends.  Accordingly, his resolution to the latter--all conduct is both a Means and an End--implies not that Work be eliminated, but that it be made enjoyable, and universalized as such.  So, regardless of whether or not such a resolution is acceptable to a Marxist, it is consistent with Dialectical Materialism, i. e. as a synthesis of conflicting terms.